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i7 3770K Bottleneck?

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Im still using the ivy bridge 3770k Oc'd at 4.5Ghz on water cooling, im currently thinking of buying a 1080 not sure on vendor yet as still browsing them, but was wondering if i will be bottlenecked by the cpu for it.

 

Im basically future proofing myself for when i move over to 1440p 144hz, as currently on a couple of 1080p screens with a r9 380 4gb but over time as games have progressed and so has technology ive noticed ive been having to change settings more in games to have good fps, where as in the past i could leave it all on ultra and enjoy it at 60fps+.

 

Anyway i wont dabble further, thanks for your replies/suggestions.

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I'm not sure how a 1080 would be future proof for 144Hz 1440p (no such thing as future proofing anyway). 

 

I would wait for the 1180.  At higher refresh rates the 3770K may become more of a bottleneck in the future. But I think it's fine for now. 

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1 minute ago, Eibe said:

I'm not sure how a 1080 would be future proof for 144Hz 1440p (no such thing as future proofing anyway). 

 

I would wait for the 1180.  At higher refresh rates the 3770K may become more of a bottleneck in the future. But I think it's fine for now. 

yeah i guess there is no way of telling for the future, i have thought about waiting it out, but thiers so many rumours around for when the 11 series is coming, although i could move on to doing a custom loop and a new case in the mean time.

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Probably no bottle neck, still a pretty high clock speed on a quad core. Dual cores are where you really see bottlenecks, or on older non-overclockable chips who are stuck at low clock speeds

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