gtx 1070 bottleneck

[Saif Zafar]

Hey,

I'v ordered a gtx 1070 ftw from EVGA .. i have a core i3 2130 3.4 ghz processor ... how bad will the performance bottleneck be? does anyone has this setup?

[kosamchetoo]

You are going to get a pretty bad bottleneck. I have an overclocked i5 6600K to 4.6GHz and in some games it's bottlenecking my GTX 970, but rarely. You could imagine what an i3 2nd generation will do with GTX 1070...

[Jack Dvorak]

that is a very scary thought.... get a z170 mobo and a i5 6600k and overclock it. It will still bottleneck but not as bad.

[kosamchetoo]

Just now, Jack Dvorak said:

that is a very scary thought.... get a z170 mobo and a i5 6600k and overclock it. It will still bottleneck but not as bad.

Actually for a GTX 1070 I would recommend nothing less than an i7 6700K.

[Jack Dvorak]

Just now, kosamchetoo said:

Actually for a GTX 1070 I would recommend nothing less than an i7 6700K.

me too, but it depends on budget. the 6700k is almost 100 more.

[kosamchetoo]

Just now, Jack Dvorak said:

me too, but it depends on budget. the 6700k is almost 100 more.

Well if I was getting that good GPU I wouldn't cheap on the CPU for sure.

[PRTI]

A really bad bottleneck

 

Really good

[Pachuca]

good topic.... might as well throw my question in here too. what about i7 5820k OC @ 4.5hz ? I'm using that with my gtx 980ti, but am thinking of upgrading to 1070 or 1080.

[Misanthrope]

4 minutes ago, kosamchetoo said:

Actually for a GTX 1070 I would recommend nothing less than an i7 6700K.

No. You're just wrong it doesn't matter as long as you have an i5 here you can see it for yourself:

 

 

 

[Jack Dvorak]

Just now, Misanthrope said:

No. You're just wrong it doesn't matter as long as you have an i5 here you can see it for yourself:

 

 

 

yes but at 1080p the bottleneck is worse.

[kosamchetoo]

1 minute ago, Jack Dvorak said:

yes but at 1080p the bottleneck is worse.

Yes, the lower the resolution - the more fps - the more CPU Usage.

[Misanthrope]

3 minutes ago, Jack Dvorak said:

yes but at 1080p the bottleneck is worse.

 

No this is also not accurate: there is NO BOTTLENECK at 1440p for modern games Is not "less" it's non-existent. The 1070 is exerting itself enough to not be bottlenecked.

 

At 1080p it only matters at 90 or 120hz  in which case yes the card it's waiting for the CPU which cannot sustain such high refresh rate. But for most people at 60 fps or at greater than 1080p experience no bottlenecks, not even with a haswell i5 as I've shown you.

[DarkBlade2117]

Yes, it will. If you can't afford a new CPU, mobo and ram try and find a used i7-2600/k

[Shiv78]

21 minutes ago, Pachuca said:

what about i7 5820k OC @ 4.5hz

That's one slow-ass cpu clock! And please don't try and hijack someone's thread, make your own.

 

The i3 will be a MASSIVE bottleneck. An i7 6700k would be the best match, but an i5-6600K would be OK too.

[Saif Zafar]

thanx everybody for the replies .. right now a generation upgrade is totally out of my budget .. as it involves motherboard change too.. i guess ill make do for now

[SteveGrabowski0]

2 hours ago, Pachuca said:

good topic.... might as well throw my question in here too. what about i7 5820k OC @ 4.5hz ? I'm using that with my gtx 980ti, but am thinking of upgrading to 1070 or 1080.

No reason to get a 1070, the 1070 and 980 Ti are pretty much neck and neck. GTX 1080 or Titan X Pascal are the only upgrades you could make from a 980 Ti.

[SteveGrabowski0]

1 hour ago, Saif Zafar said:

thanx everybody for the replies .. right now a generation upgrade is totally out of my budget .. as it involves motherboard change too.. i guess ill make do for now

You could always buy a used Sandy or Ivy Bridge i5 or i7 and you'd be in good shape. No need to do a generational upgrade.

[SteveGrabowski0]

For instance, you could probably do a BIOS update so your board can support Ivy Bridge processors, and then grab an i7-3770 or i5-3570 off ebay, and you'd have a cpu that would get you 60 fps gameplay with no problem. Or if you don't want to do a BIOS update you could grab an i7-2600 or i5-2500. Or of course you could get the K versions of any of those chips too, but you might end up paying more and it would be useless if you don't have an overclocking board since in Sandy and Ivy the K chips have the same stock clockspeed as the non-K chips. 

[MarcoTexture]

it will somehow bottleneck but for christ sake people tend to overrate the whole cpu bottleneck thing. there are a lot of variables in your systems that may lead to a possible bottleneck. YES, i know cpu is probably the biggest of em but it aint that bad. I bet you'll be fine for 60fps 1440p with an i5. unless you plan to do something else that requires heavy processing, a skylake/haswell i5 with a decent cooler will do the job. if you can spend the extra buck, then yeah by all means get an i7.

 

Keep in mind if you plan to do the upgrade that will include a new mobo, rams and probably a new psu.

[ThomasD]

Amazed that nobody bothered to ask what games he plays before they declared their opinion.

[Saif Zafar]

19 hours ago, ThomasD said:

Amazed that nobody bothered to ask what games he plays before they declared their opinion.

gta V , witcher 3, rise of the tomb raider, battlefield 4, battlefield 3, dota, just cause 3 , far cry primal .. mostly these games

[i_build_nanosuits]

2 hours ago, Saif Zafar said:

gta V , witcher 3, rise of the tomb raider, battlefield 4, battlefield 3, dota, just cause 3 , far cry primal .. mostly these games

screen resolution?

[Saif Zafar]

54 minutes ago, i_build_nanosuits said:

screen resolution?

1920*1080

[i_build_nanosuits]

Just now, Saif Zafar said:

1920*1080

a gtx 1060 would have been more then enough for 1080p gaming for years to come...and would have allowed you to upgrade your CPU and motherboard...at this point i will suggest update your BIOS and drop in the best quad-core you can find that is supported by your motherboards...probably an i7-2600K or i7-3770/3770K or somehting like that..the i3 is nowhere near fast enough.

[ThomasD]

11 hours ago, Saif Zafar said:

gta V , witcher 3, rise of the tomb raider, battlefield 4, battlefield 3, dota, just cause 3 , far cry primal .. mostly these games

Then yes, at times your CPU will be a bottleneck.  Meaning that, at those moments, if you had a more powerful CPU you would get more FPS.  But, your new GPU will still be a major improvement over whatever you were previously running.  

 

Having bought that GPU, you now need to start planning your CPU upgrade. Given the kinds of games you play, the sooner the better.