1060 with i5 3470t ? will it bottleneck

[Gourab]

i am having a i5 3470t/i3 2100 and 8 gb 1600mhz ram and 7200rpm hdd

 

i want to buy a new gpu (1060) will it bottleneck if yes   how much ?

before i was using a 960 4gb and which 1060 will best for me (plz don't tell about asus 1060 its just 4k less then 1070 in india )

 

 

THANKS

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[Imakuni]

You know... bottlenecking is not an exact science. It depends on the game, the settings, what else you have running in the background... Overall, you can expect performance drops when compared to a fast CPU. But this shouldn't be too terribly bad.

[Castdeath97]

Should be okay if you have the i5 (not the i3). Almost any 1060 will do, it's a cool card it doesn't need a magical cooler.

[handymanshandle]

7 minutes ago, Castdeath97 said:

Should be okay if you have the i5 (not the i3). Almost any 1060 will do, it's a cool card it doesn't need a magical cooler.

But magical coolers are the best coolers.

Well also coolers that look nice are good too. So far it looks like all the 1060s I've seen have lacked backplates.

 

Though OP is in India it sounds like so maybe the extra heat made by the 480 might not be too good.

OP might also not care about aesthetic either. Which I know isn't suppose to be the number 1 priority but I think there's some people who would agree that a nice looking card that performs pretty good too isn't a bad thing. Though I feel like I might be going a bit off topic. So to get back on topic, the 1060 won't be bottle-necked by a newer i5 but an i3 would likely hold it back.

 

I'd say that you'd be best off pairing an RX 460 or RX 470 with an i3. Which sounds like there'll be more info coming out on those soon here too. Since AMD has kinda talking about the 470 and 460.

[LSky]

An i5-3470T is a hyperthreaded dual-core, so a 1060 could be bottlnecked by it in some games that require quad cores.

[Thony]

Game dependant and most AAA titles prefer better CPUs than yours but u wil get playable FPS no matter what just no maxing all the games.

[Castdeath97]

25 minutes ago, wcreek said:

But magical coolers are the best coolers.

Well also coolers that look nice are good too. So far it looks like all the 1060s I've seen have lacked backplates.

 

Though OP is in India it sounds like so maybe the extra heat made by the 480 might not be too good.

OP might also not care about aesthetic either. Which I know isn't suppose to be the number 1 priority but I think there's some people who would agree that a nice looking card that performs pretty good too isn't a bad thing. Though I feel like I might be going a bit off topic. So to get back on topic, the 1060 won't be bottle-necked by a newer i5 but an i3 would likely hold it back.

 

I'd say that you'd be best off pairing an RX 460 or RX 470 with an i3. Which sounds like there'll be more info coming out on those soon here too. Since AMD has kinda talking about the 470 and 460.

That depend though, I'm yet to see a awful 1060 cooler. They all look so far fine. The EVGA mini and gaming coolers even still have the decent older design.

[handymanshandle]

14 minutes ago, Castdeath97 said:

That depend though, I'm yet to see a awful 1060 cooler. They all look so far fine. The EVGA mini and gaming coolers even still have the decent older design.

But no back plates though, which I know is nit picky and doesn't really affect the performance but it does seem to help the rigidity of the card and it looks better. The FTW and SSC coolers on the 1060 from EVGA aren't too bad but they lack something that a similarly performing GPU will likely have.

[Sir_Loin_Ofsteak]

I think people get a bit too hung up on bottlenecks. There's always going to be some level of it somewhere; I mean I understand the desire to balance the system but I would just get the card you want. Back in the day I stuck a GTX 285 in with a Core2Duo E6550. Bottleneck? Probably, but that didn't stop it eating everything with acceptable frame rates...

[i_build_nanosuits]

5 hours ago, Gourab said:

i am having a i5 3470t/i3 2100 and 8 gb 1600mhz ram and 7200rpm hdd

 

i want to buy a new gpu (1060) will it bottleneck if yes   how much ?

 

yes it will...and by a lot.