7700 possible bottleneck?

[dainity4576]

Ok so i recently upgraded my 1060 to a 1080ti because i also upgraded monitors from 1080p to 1440p (black friday being a week long thing this year at best buy really helped me out as i could basically spread it out between 2 paychecks lol) when i had built my system i was still learning and purchased the 7700 non k because at the time i had figured " im never going to over clock i dont even know what that really is" a laughable thought now. My long question is do you think that my 1080ti is being bottlenecked in some gaming titles by the 7700 non k as the base spead is lower as well as the turbo/boost. In a lot of the benchmarks that i see im not getting nearly the FPS that the benchmarkers are and a lot of the time my cpu is at a higher utilization than my graphics card is and that was NEVER the case with my 1060. thanks for any replies im really feeling like i am holding it back with the cpu given the circumstances but some input from people with more experience will make me feel better. 

[Princess Luna]

6 minutes ago, dainity4576 said:

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Don't worry that much truth be told overclocking the i7 7700k wouldn't solve your issue either ways, the difference isn't worth the extra costs of z chipset, delid and better cooling, what bottlenecks the 1080 Ti is it being a quadcore, you really need the Coffee Lake six cores to get the most out of the 1080 Ti, in fact the i7 7700 ~ i7 7700k is now comparable to the i5 8400 at best... more likely still worse.

 

Meaning that even if you went the full overclocking route you'd still be bottlenecking the GPU in some way, although being this 1440p it really hardly will matter:

 

[dainity4576]

My main reason for this post was because i was thinking of upgrading to coffe lake once i sell my 1060 that i still have lol. I really just needed reassurance that i was indeed bottle necking the 1080ti with my cpu before i went out and spent the money on a new mainboard and cpu. 

[TrigrH]

Start with a decent CPU cooler first, see if that helps. Make sure XMP and MCE are enabled in the bios.

[Ertman]

I think people are too hung up on whether something bottlenecks another thing. Sure you are likely being bottlenecked, but that also depends on the games you play, but your system isn't that far out of balance.

 

I would say that the only real way to go from here is likely the 8000 series, maybe with  over locking and extra cores.

[dainity4576]

29 minutes ago, TrigrH said:

Start with a decent CPU cooler first, see if that helps. Make sure XMP and MCE are enabled in the bios.

yea ive done that already =/ ive got a corsair clc on there at the moment but because i went with the non K 7700 i also didnt go with Z series motherboard so thats another reason i wanted to upgrade to the intel 8700k with a z370 motherboard so that i can actually have some bios options and have some room to grow with overclocking and or delidding it i just feel at the moment that a non k 7700 on a H series motherboard is holding back my 1080ti to the point that im wasting money. I think at this point im pretty sure im going to upgrade my processor becuase i know i can recuperate some of the funds by selling the 7700 and the 1060 

[TrigrH]

5 minutes ago, dainity4576 said:

i just feel at the moment that a non k 7700 on a H series motherboard is holding back my 1080ti to the point that im wasting money.

Fuck no, unless you are gaming at 1080p which you said you aren't. Any bottlenecking should be at a minimum at best.

 

So the CPU stays at a fixed 4.2ghz at load correct?

 

[dainity4576]

39 minutes ago, TrigrH said:

Fuck no, unless you are gaming at 1080p which you said you aren't. Any bottlenecking should be at a minimum at best.

 

So the CPU stays at a fixed 4.2ghz at load correct?

 

yea especially when im playing destiny 2 my cpu is sitting at 99% and my gpu isnt at 99% which was my first indication that i may need to upgrade the cpu to keep up with the gpu