To much bottleneck?

[Truetricks]

Ok so I don’t know how much the bottleneck matters but I’m was looking on upgrading cpu to the i5-8500 and keeping everything else but where the bottleneck comes in it’s says from bottleneck.com or something like that, that it is a 33% bottleneck for a i5-8500 GeForce gtx 1050ti 4x2gb ram 7.2k rpm 1tb hard drive is it really a problem?

[Mira Yurizaki]

That website is way too inaccurate if not outright trash with regards to "how much" of a bottleneck you have. Especially since it doesn't really say which areas are a problem. For gaming, the i5-8500 gets within 10% of an i7-8700K

 

In any case, if you don't have a 300 series chipset motherboard, you also can't upgrade to Coffee Lake either.

[AlwaysFSX]

Never use a website that generically tells you want a problem is based on numbers from hardware specs. Understand what a bottleneck is and how it happens, and investigate on your own.

[Brooksie359]

An i5 wouldn't bottleneck a 1050ti. Honestly most cpus can keep up with the 1050ti quite well so unless you are running a really old cpu I honestly don't think you need to upgrade your cpu. What is your current cpu anyways?

[AvocadosGuac]

save your money and go for an i5 8400. 

 

Or you could allow for upgrades and go ryzen...

[Truetricks]

1 hour ago, Brooksie359 said:

An i5 wouldn't bottleneck a 1050ti. Honestly most cpus can keep up with the 1050ti quite well so unless you are running a really old cpu I honestly don't think you need to upgrade your cpu. What is your current cpu anyways?

I have an i3-6100 and i was going to upgrade to a i5-8500

[Brooksie359]

Just now, Truetricks said:

I have an i3-6100 and i was going to upgrade to a i5-8500

Honestly not worth it. Just stick with the cpu you got and upgrade the gpu. If anything you would want to get a 6th or 7th gen cpu as they are compatible with your current motherboard where as the 8500 is not. I would upgrade your gpu right now and see how it does in the games you want to play. If the performance isn't what you want and the benchmarks for the 1050ti have higher performance that you want then you can upgrade. 

[MooseKnuckle]

I don't see any problem here.  If you were to spend money on your system right now, I would get an SSD.  That will get you more of a performance boost than you might imagine.

[UltimateByte]

Running Windows 10, you can easily check the task manager during a gaming session and see if your GPU is at 100%. If it is, then the CPU is not really bottlenecking your performance on games you play.

There are of course more accurate tools and even OSD overlay ones. Afterburner + rivatuner statistics server work pretty well for OSD. You can use task manager along with GPU-Z for simple statistics, just alt+tab your game to check it, especially after experiencing low FPS and see where is your bottleneck