gtx 1070 and i5 6600

[meepo]

hey guys! 
I currently have a GTX 970 with and core i5 6600 and 16 GB of DDR4 Ram. in some games like Battlefield 1, Witcher 3, Mafia 3, Watch Dogs 2 and even Hitman 2016 my CPU usage is around 90% and sometimes reaching fixed 100%. 
So my question is if I get a GTX 1070(as i Plan to), will this CPU bottleneck the beast (It is not an outdated/weak cpu!) ? Do I need to upgrade my CPU as well? (1070 costs around 600$ here!)
in my country, most of the tech dudes! don't know shit about PC Builds and just want to drain your money!! I remember one of them actually believed a core i3 will be more than enough for gtx 1080!!! :-D. That's why I Created this topic. Hope u guys could help me out on this

[PCGuy_5960]

You should upgrade to a Core i7-7700/6700.... It will give you better performance

[rcald2000]

Download HWMonitor to check CPU temps while gaming: http://www.cpuid.com/downloads/hwmonitor/hwmonitor_1.31.exe

Game for 5 minutes then check the CPU temperature and report it back here.  I think your CPU might be thermal throttling.

 

Which country do you live?  What are the ambient temperatures in the room where you computer is right now?

[DocSwag]

Does your GPU ever drop below 99 or 100% usage?

[meepo]

1 minute ago, rcald2000 said:

Download HWMonitor to check CPU temps while gaming: http://www.cpuid.com/downloads/hwmonitor/hwmonitor_1.31.exe

Game for 5 minutes then check the CPU temperature and report it back here.

I'm using MSI Afterburner. Temps are fine. on heavy load. CPU is around 50 - 55 and GPU around 70

[Technomancer__]

6 minutes ago, meepo said:

hey guys! 
I currently have a GTX 970 with and core i5 6600 and 16 GB of DDR4 Ram. in some games like Battlefield 1, Witcher 3, Mafia 3, Watch Dogs 2 and even Hitman 2016 my CPU usage is around 90% and sometimes reaching fixed 100%. 
So my question is if I get a GTX 1070(as i Plan to), will this CPU bottleneck the beast (It is not an outdated/weak cpu!) ? Do I need to upgrade my CPU as well? (1070 costs around 600$ here!)
in my country, most of the tech dudes! don't know shit about PC Builds and just want to drain your money!! I remember one of them actually believed a core i3 will be more than enough for gtx 1080!!! :-D. That's why I Created this topic. Hope u guys could help me out on this

no i have a 6600 non k and my gpu usage goes to 100% in all games so far

i have the zotac amp extreme 1070 oc very far

[meepo]

2 minutes ago, DocSwag said:

Does your GPU ever drop below 99 or 100% usage?

yes. 60% to 99% depending on the game

[COUPER MILLAR]

You could upgrade to  2k monitor with the 1070 amd take the cpu bottleneck out and replace it with a gpu limitation. 

[DocSwag]

1 minute ago, meepo said:

yes. 60% to 99% depending on the game

Yeah definitely a CPU bottleneck then...

 

You'd probably want to look at upgrading to a 6700 or 7700 for your CPU then before upgrading the GPU.

[DocSwag]

Note though, you could check for viruses. Do you have any other apps usually open while gaming as well?

[meepo]

2 minutes ago, COUPER MILLAR said:

You could upgrade to  2k monitor with the 1070 amd take the cpu bottleneck out and replace it with a gpu limitation. 

It makes me sick to see that gtx 1060 and rx 480 can't handle some games in 1080p. that's why I want to go for 1070

[meepo]

1 minute ago, DocSwag said:

Note though, you could check for viruses. Do you have any other apps usually open while gaming as well?

I dont think I have any viruses. CPU usage on Idle is fine (below 5%) and i tried this with a fresh windows 10 installed and i also got the latest drivers.

[Fraser Cow]

I had an i5 4690K @4.6Ghz and I ended upgrading it to a Ryzen 1700 because it was bottlenecking my 1070 and dropping frames in a lot of newer games. Obviously if I only cared about getting the most out of my 1070 I would have gotten a 7700K but I opted for the 1700 because its better for my use-case.

[meepo]

13 minutes ago, DocSwag said:

Yeah definitely a CPU bottleneck then...

 

You'd probably want to look at upgrading to a 6700 or 7700 for your CPU then before upgrading the GPU.

 

6 minutes ago, Fraser Cow said:

I had an i5 4690K @4.6Ghz and I ended upgrading it to a Ryzen 1700 because it was bottlenecking my 1070 and dropping frames in a lot of newer games. Obviously if I only cared about getting the most out of my 1070 I would have gotten a 7700K but I opted for the 1700 because its better for my use-case.

so do you think an i7 6700 (non K) will do the job? I have a Asus B150 Pro Gaming and I just cant go for a K Processor

[Lare111]

I have an i7 6700 and without hyper-threading it's equivalent to i5 6600. I also have a GTX 1070.

 

Without HT I get almost constant 100% CPU usage in Watch Dogs 2 and pretty bad FPS drops. GTA V and The Witcher 3 are also pretty CPU intensive and there is some stuttering. I haven't tried other games without HT. Enabling hyper-threading gives me very nice performance boost (+30-40%) and FPS drops and stutters are gone. I recommend you to get a 6700 or 7700 if you want to get stable 60 FPS in new games.

 

Even with i7 I still have some minor CPU bottlenecking if I disable VSync. Especially Watch Dogs 2, Ghost Recon: Wildlands and BF1 Multiplayer are very CPU intensive but I have a 60Hz monitor so there isn't really a problem because I usually play with VSync on or FPS limiter.