1080ti with a 6600k?

[Nyxathid]

Has the title suggests, will a 1080ti "work" with a 6600k @ 4.5 without having to much of a bottleneck? Playing at 1440p aiming to buy a wide 1440p screen, will it work? Or will I need to upgrade to a i7? 

[shadowbyte]

it'll work, but there will be a bottleneck

tbh, you probably won't really notice it in gaming anyway

[Billy_Mays]

You'll need to have a better processor and are you going to be video editing any time soon if so get Ryzen and a R5 1600 won't bottle neck it

[Nyxathid]

Just now, shadowbyte said:

it'll work, but there will be a bottleneck

tbh, you probably won't really notice it in gaming anyway

I do plan on going for ryzen but it's when the 1700X lowers in price, so for now, it will be okay? 

 

[shadowbyte]

Just now, Nyxathid said:

I do plan on going for ryzen but it's when the 1700X lowers in price, so for now, it will be okay? 

 

for sure, and a 1700x will be a fantastic pairing

[Hunter259]

Unless you are going for super high frame rates then you should be fine. Otherwise you will have to get an i7 K

[rn8686]

Should be fine, not major bottleneck at 1440p, R5 is a better buy if you are getting it new though. 

[JHY]

if your screen has 100+hz refresh rate I would upgrade cpu.

[suits]

The bottleneck will really only be in CPU intensive games. You'll be fine depending on what game you're playing until you go Ryzen

[Hunter-97-G]

If it's 60Hz you can run either 1440p and 4K with the i5. You only would need to upgrade if aiming for high refresh.

[Lt.Speirs]

You'd think by now people would understand. The word "bottleneck" gets tossed around too loosely nowadays. How can anyone possibly think that any relevant i5 (K) processor would bottleneck a 1080/1080ti? Cpu architecture hasn't changed much over the last 5 years.

• General rule of thumb for certain games that are poorly optimized, the higher your resolution - the less likely your cpu will be your "bottleneck".

And before you ask: lower resolutions are easy for graphics cards, so the limiting factor is how fast your CPU can calculate data. Higher resolutions stress the graphics card so the CPU isn't the limiting factor..

 

I game at 3440x1440 and have a 4690K @ 4.5Ghz along with a 1080ti, and everything is fine...

[Nyxathid]

The thing is I managed a sweet deal with a X370 board, a K7 mobo from gigabyte for 100 euros, well I got my mind on the ryzen now question now, 1700x or 1700, is the 1700 just a downclocked version of the 1700x?

I will be paring with a NDH15

[stealth80]

If already on a Z170 socket just flash the bios and drop in a 7700k, will better in games and cheaper than buying a new board + 1700x

 

6600k @ 1440P wont bottleneck a 1080ti anyway, you may get some stutter in thread heavy games

[Nyxathid]

11 minutes ago, stealth80 said:

If already on a Z170 socket just flash the bios and drop in a 7700k, will better in games and cheaper than buying a new board + 1700x

 

6600k @ 1440P wont bottleneck a 1080ti anyway, you may get some stutter in thread heavy games

Too late!! Gonna give my old mobo and cpu to my brother 

[stealth80]

12 hours ago, Nyxathid said:

Too late!! Gonna give my old mobo and cpu to my brother 

Ok just keep in mind that Ryzen does best with fast DDR4. If money for some really fast DDR4 is an issue (3600mhz) then I would suggest dropping to a non X 1700 and adding the 3600mhz DDR4. Agesa 1006 just release offering upto 4000mhz ram speeds