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Hi everyone, i thinking on buying a GTX 1080 to upgrade my rig in wich i have an Intel i5 4690k. Will this cpu bottleneck the 1080 ? Im buying this GPU as i would like to play some games on my Samsung ks8000 4k display. Looking fwd to read your thoughts. Best!

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as long as you're not playing at 1080p you should be just fine. 

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you'll be fine. i know a guy running an i5 3000 series with a 1080. 

 

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We can't Benchmark like we used to, but we have our ways. One trick is to shove more GPUs in your computer. Like the time I needed to NV-Link, because I needed a higher HeavenBench score, so I did an SLI, which is what they called NV-Link back in the day. So, I decided to put two GPUs in my computer, which was the style at the time. Now, to add another GPU to your computer, costs a new PSU. Now in those days PSUs said OCZ on them, "Gimme 750W OCZs for an SLI" you'd say. Now where were we? Oh yeah, the important thing was that I had two GPUs in my rig, which was the style at the time! They didn't have RGB PSUs at the time, because of the war. The only thing you could get was those big green ones. 

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@legacy99 thnks for ur quick reply mate. Whats the problem at 1080p ? plan is to keep playing some titles at 1080p. 

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at 1080p the CPU is a bottleneck. I had an i5 4690k that was bottlenecking my 1070 at 1080p. 

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Just now, legacy99 said:

at 1080p the CPU is a bottleneck. I had an i5 4690k that was bottlenecking my 1070 at 1080p. 

you're telling me you didn't see your GPU useage hit 100% during benchmarks?

 

if your GPU hit's 100% during stressing, you aren't bottle necking. i've had GPU's cap at 80% because they were bottled due to a superheated thermal throttled CPU.

We can't Benchmark like we used to, but we have our ways. One trick is to shove more GPUs in your computer. Like the time I needed to NV-Link, because I needed a higher HeavenBench score, so I did an SLI, which is what they called NV-Link back in the day. So, I decided to put two GPUs in my computer, which was the style at the time. Now, to add another GPU to your computer, costs a new PSU. Now in those days PSUs said OCZ on them, "Gimme 750W OCZs for an SLI" you'd say. Now where were we? Oh yeah, the important thing was that I had two GPUs in my rig, which was the style at the time! They didn't have RGB PSUs at the time, because of the war. The only thing you could get was those big green ones. 

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1 minute ago, VioDuskar said:

you're telling me you didn't see your GPU useage hit 100% during benchmarks?

 

if your GPU hit's 100% during stressing, you aren't bottle necking. i've had GPU's cap at 80% because they were bottled due to a superheated thermal throttled CPU.

Benchmarks are different from actual game play. Benchmarks are just fine, but in game play on CPU bound games, like GTA V, BF1, Witcher 3 with settings cranked up to max which you would expect to be able to use with a GTX 1080, your CPU would be pegged at or very near 100% and GPU usage would NOT be at 100% usage. 

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Just now, legacy99 said:

Benchmarks are different from actual game play. Benchmarks are just fine, but in game play on CPU bound games, like GTA V, BF1, Witcher 3 with settings cranked up to max which you would expect to be able to use with a GTX 1080, your CPU would be pegged at or very near 100% and GPU usage would NOT be at 100% usage. 

if you don't hit 100% GPU usage you didn't turn the settings up high enough Amirite? 

 

typically i never see my CPU hit 100% usage unless it's trying to overcome a thermal throttle onset by a dust covered radiator.

 

my FX-9590 got up there on some CPU usage, but again, it normally never went over 80% use will my 980s in SLI would be at 100% at the same time. 

We can't Benchmark like we used to, but we have our ways. One trick is to shove more GPUs in your computer. Like the time I needed to NV-Link, because I needed a higher HeavenBench score, so I did an SLI, which is what they called NV-Link back in the day. So, I decided to put two GPUs in my computer, which was the style at the time. Now, to add another GPU to your computer, costs a new PSU. Now in those days PSUs said OCZ on them, "Gimme 750W OCZs for an SLI" you'd say. Now where were we? Oh yeah, the important thing was that I had two GPUs in my rig, which was the style at the time! They didn't have RGB PSUs at the time, because of the war. The only thing you could get was those big green ones. 

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Don't worry about it man.  I'm running a 3570k with the gtx 1080.  There are instances where the CPU will hit 100%, but they don't cause anything more than brief stuttering.  This only really happens when I play on my 1080p big screen.  When I'm gaming on my 1440p monitor, there are no such issues.  Playing at 4K would render your system even more GPU bound.

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1 hour ago, wutie said:

Hi everyone, i thinking on buying a GTX 1080 to upgrade my rig in wich i have an Intel i5 4690k. Will this cpu bottleneck the 1080 ?

 

 

 

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