nvidia i7 3770k Bottlenecking

[Zakuan Azad]

Hey guys! So I'm currently using a GTX 970 strix. I'm planning to upgrade to the gtx 1080 soon. I was just wondering will my old i7 be bottlenecking the 1080? And also my i7 is not overclocked.

[Mira Yurizaki]

Depends on the games you run and the settings you play them at. If it's 1080p gaming, then it's likely the processor will not allow as much of a improvement as to be expected but there should still be an appreciable improvement regardless.

[Zakuan Azad]

2 minutes ago, M.Yurizaki said:

Depends on the games you run and the settings you play them at. If it's 1080p gaming, then it's likely the processor will not allow as much of a improvement as to be expected but there should still be an appreciable improvement regardless.

I'm playing on a 1080p 144hz monitor. So basically I'll notice an improvement but I won't be running the card at it's full potential.

[Mira Yurizaki]

If we went by http://www.guru3d.com/articles-pages/geforce-gtx-980-sli-review,1.html as a rough estimation (a GTX 1080 is about 1.5-1.8x that of a GTX 980), you should still see a significant performance improvement. Though the test system was a six-core Sandy Bridge E, most games in that time period weren't really going to use all of those cores enough to matter.

 

However I would still expect to see lower numbers than usual.

[Zakuan Azad]

11 minutes ago, M.Yurizaki said:

If we went by http://www.guru3d.com/articles-pages/geforce-gtx-980-sli-review,1.html as a rough estimation (a GTX 1080 is about 1.5-1.8x that of a GTX 980), you should still see a significant performance improvement. Though the test system was a six-core Sandy Bridge E, most games in that time period weren't really going to use all of those cores enough to matter.

 

However I would still expect to see lower numbers than usual.

Hmm alright I'll have a read later. Would u say it's about time to upgrade my cpu tho? Or is it still capable of running todays games well? 

[STRMfrmXMN]

If you OC that CPU you can get pretty far with modern games. The single-threaded performance is similar to Ryzen.

[Vegetable]

36 minutes ago, Zakuan Azad said:

I'm playing on a 1080p 144hz monitor. So basically I'll notice an improvement but I won't be running the card at it's full potential.

It would do fine. At 4Ghz+ it wouldn't bottleneck much if at all honestly. 

[Zakuan Azad]

Would it be difficult to find a z77 board though ?

[Mick Naughty]

You will have issues on certain games with a 1080.

 

As far as boards go, depends on what you want. low end which will be cheap. Or mid/high end which still cost $200 plus.