Bottlenecking

[Addicttogames]

Hello I am new and just seen the video on bottlenecking on techquicke and I was wondering if an i5 4400k, 12 gb of rams would hold back my gtx 1060's potential. 

[ARikozuM]

Not likely, but I'm not finding info on the i5-4400K, so I can't be certain.

[Modern_Mo]

Hi,

8 Gb of ram would be enough still too, so 12 Gb is just fine,

Your i5 is fine, i reccomend overclocking it though.

If your buying new, try and upgrade that cpu....

[Princess Luna]

2 minutes ago, Addicttogames said:

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The i5 4400 is a locked processor there is K at the end of it.

 

If you want to know if you're being bottleneck simply play your game with MSi Afterburner running to check your usages, if CPU is being max out but not the GPU then simply as that your CPU is bottlenecking the GPU.

[Mira Yurizaki]

3 minutes ago, Addicttogames said:

Hello I am new and just seen the video on bottlenecking on techquicke and I was wondering if an i5 4400k, 12 gb of rams would hold back my gtx 1060's potential. 

It'll take a hit on some games that really hammer the CPU, like Battlefield 1. You'll also have a higher chance of hitting minimums in games with intense action going on.

 

Otherwise you should still hit least 60 FPS at 1080p on high in most titles.

[AnalogCanavity]

http://thebottlenecker.com/

[ARikozuM]

1600X is best for the 1080? Yeah, no. 

 

Also, "What's your metabolic age?"! Mine is Hispanic male, 26, I guess. 

[Mira Yurizaki]

10 minutes ago, Zic05 said:

http://thebottlenecker.com/

I would take this site with a pinch of salt for any serious recommendations simply because they don't provide any metrics on why there's a bottleneck. There's also things that don't make sense. Why does a Ryzen R5 1600X work better with a GTX 1080 over a Core i7-6700K when the i7 has been shown to have higher overall performance?

 

And what justification do they have for saying "anything over 10% is a bottleneck"? I mean in my mind, a bottleneck is a bottleneck. What's more important is how much performance you're still getting and whether or not this still meets your needs.

 

Seriously this topic is so overblown and so fear mongering that I'm surprised manufacturer's haven't jumped on board to get everyone to buy their parts every generation. "BUY OUR NEWEST PROCESSOR (that doesn't offer anything really better than the last) BECAUSE NOW YOU'RE BOTTLENECKING!"

[ARikozuM]

37 minutes ago, M.Yurizaki said:

I would take this site with a pinch of salt for any serious recommendations simply because they don't provide any metrics on why there's a bottleneck. There's also things that don't make sense. Why does a Ryzen R5 1600X work better with a GTX 1080 over a Core i7-6700K when the i7 has been shown to have higher overall performance?

Methinks they're taking [core x freq = performance] from the looks of the Xeon and 1600X on the chart. 

[Mira Yurizaki]

1 minute ago, ARikozuM said:

Methinks they're taking [core x freq = performance] from the looks of the Xeon and 1600X on the chart. 

It doesn't appear to do that, but it's pretty darn close to doing so.

[PCGuy_5960]

Just now, ARikozuM said:

Methinks they're taking [core x freq = performance] from the looks of the Xeon and 1600X on the chart. 

Which makes no sense, because very few games can use more than 8 threads. The website is BS, a 2.2Ghz Xeon isn't a better gaming CPU than a 7700K.

[ARikozuM]

Just now, M.Yurizaki said:

It doesn't appear to do that, but it's pretty darn close to doing so.

Yeah, just realized the 2.2 x 10 Xeon is higher than the 1700's ~3.0 x 8.

[Mira Yurizaki]

5 minutes ago, PCGuy_5960 said:

Which makes no sense, because very few games can use more than 8 threads. The website is BS, a 2.2Ghz Xeon isn't a better gaming CPU than a 7700K.

It's that some people think you can gauge performance of a multi-core part by simply doing its frequency times the number of cores and that equals a single core at that frequency. I've seen this a few times on eBay and sadly in some retailers.

[Princess Luna]

1 hour ago, M.Yurizaki said:

I would take this site with a pinch of salt

More like a mountain of salt, I always thought this website was a troll place, it told me I needed an i7 6950x minimum for my old GTX TITAN XM

[i_build_nanosuits]

1 hour ago, Addicttogames said:

Hello I am new and just seen the video on bottlenecking on techquicke and I was wondering if an i5 4400k, 12 gb of rams would hold back my gtx 1060's potential. 

depends on the game, the settings, the resolution...but in general i'd say it's a good pairing...

[Addicttogames]

13 hours ago, Addicttogames said:

Hello I am new and just seen the video on bottlenecking on techquicke and I was wondering if an i5 4400k, 12 gb of rams would hold back my gtx 1060's potential. 

Edit: I have a i5 4430 not 4400k sorry

[Seb1337]

my pc has a gtx 1060 (3gb) paired with an i5 7400 and there's no problem. I don't think theres much of a difference between these 2 cpu's

[pzspah]

3 hours ago, Seb1337 said:

my pc has a gtx 1060 (3gb) paired with an i5 7400 and there's no problem. I don't think theres much of a difference between these 2 cpu's

Until today I had a 1060 6gb with an i5 7500 and I never saw any issue. Been toying around with a 1080 for the past hour and I'm not seeing any bottlenecking so far in the games I've tried.

[BryL]

It will depend on the games that you play whether it requires more CPU power or GPU power.

But more probably it won't.