Msi 1070, will my cpu bottleneck?

[Ardy]

I built my first pc 1 year ago and now it's time to upgrade from my 270x to a 1070, but i'm note sure if i should upgrade my cpu or not, at the moment i have the i5-4590.

Will it bottleneck the 1070? should i upgrade to a better cpu ( if yes i'm going with the 4790K ) Thanks

[david cassar]

Would it bottleneck, yes it would. However you would still get much much better framerates than with your 270x. And honestly you probably wouldn't notice the bottleneck. My advice is get the gtx 1070 and if you aren't happy with the performance just get an i7 4790k.

[MblaZe7run]

no way, you should be more than fine

[Guest]

no and i highly doubt you'll see any difference upgrading to the 4790k, unless you overclock then maybe a few extra frames.

[saladcrack]

I have an i5 4570k and 3D Mark says it is bottlenecking my 1070 so I am upgrading to a 6700k so maybe you should upgrade as well.

[AresKrieger]

It might in some games (GTA 5 for exaple would do it), technically speaking though every system will have some form of bottleneck if you let things run at unlimited fps so I wouldn't worry about it tbh, it should be very minimal

[Infin8]

It depends on the games you play and the resolution you play on. (if you have a 120hz 1080p screen it would be worth upgrading. If you play on 60hz 1440p or 4k, you most likely won't see a difference.) 

Hope this helps. 

[Ardy]

2 hours ago, Infin8 said:

It depends on the games you play and the resolution you play on. (if you have a 120hz 1080p screen it would be worth upgrading. If you play on 60hz 1440p or 4k, you most likely won't see a difference.) 

Hope this helps. 

I play for the most fps games, i have a 1080p 144hz monitor.

[Infin8]

6 hours ago, Ardy said:

I play for the most fps games, i have a 1080p 144hz monitor.

Oh, in that case i would upgrade. if you got the money for it maybe get a 6700K

[Nena Trinity]

Most say even i5-6600K bottleneck the 1070 in games such as GTA V, I personally think they overreact even if there is proof...

[Mira Yurizaki]

Will it bottleneck? Sure.

 

How much? It depends.

 

Is it that bad? Hell no. You're probably going to hit like 95% of the highest performance at worst.

 

 

But the biggest question is how much will it upgrade your current setup? A GTX 1070 will still perform a helluva lot better than the R7 270X will.

[Ardy]

1 hour ago, Infin8 said:

Oh, in that case i would upgrade. if you got the money for it maybe get a 6700K

See i live in Switzerland and the 1070 and 4790k upgrade would cost me 913 CHF (947USD) Upgrading to skylake it's not worth in my opinion.

[PRTI]

36 minutes ago, Nena360 said:

Most say even i5-6600K bottleneck the 1070 in games such as GTA V, I personally think they overreact even if there is proof...

At 4.5

 

 

[Mira Yurizaki]

1 hour ago, Nena360 said:

Most say even i5-6600K bottleneck the 1070 in games such as GTA V, I personally think they overreact even if there is proof...

I'm not really understanding why the idea that your part is performing maybe 95% as much as it possibly could is such a soul destroying concept to some of these people. Even if the upgrade is still appreciably better.

 

I mean I know my CPU bottlenecks my graphics card. I got slight worse scores on 3DMark when I had a GTX 980 on my i7-6700 vs when it was on a i5-4670K. But I'm still getting massive improvements across the board on my GTX 1080.

 

The only time I knew I had to upgrade the CPU was when I stuffed a 8800 GT on an Athlon X2 3800+ system and Half Life 2: Episode 2 didn't budge, Bioshock was not getting dips as much, and Call of Duty 4 was the only improvement. That's  when a bottleneck is hurting and you should strongly consider upgrading the CPU.

[Nena Trinity]

3 minutes ago, M.Yurizaki said:

I'm not really understanding why the idea that your part is performing maybe 95% as much as it possibly could is such a soul destroying concept to some of these people. Even if the upgrade is still appreciably better.

 

I mean I know my CPU bottlenecks my graphics card. I got slight worse scores on 3DMark when I had a GTX 980 on my i7-6700 vs when it was on a i5-4670K. But I'm still getting massive improvements across the board on my GTX 1080.

 

The only time I knew I had to upgrade the CPU was when I stuffed a 8800 GT on an Athlon X2 3800+ system and Half Life 2: Episode 2 didn't budge, Bioshock was not getting dips as much, and Call of Duty 4 was the only improvement. That's  when a bottleneck is hurting and you should strongly consider upgrading the CPU.

Exactly!