Graphics card upgrade

[olesien]

For about a year and a half ago, I upgraded my computer. I bought the cheapest 1060 6GB I could find, paired with a 6600k that I later thanks to a decent air cooler overclocked to 4.4ghz. I also bought a Z170 Pro Gaming, 16GBs of ram (DDR4@2133mhz), corsair crystal 460X RGB, corsair RM750. Everything except for the graphics card with its one fan runs very cool. 

 

However, later I've become frustrated with lag in games (below like 70fps in many games on 1440p@144hz). I have saved up around 1000 dollars (9200sek) and am considering to upgrade to a 1080 or 1080 ti, will there be any cpu bottleneck? Is it smarter to wait until the prices come down and/or the new generation comes out?

 

Thanks,

olesien

[IdiotPenguin]

I think there might be slight bottleneck but since you’re at 1440p it’s not really much to worry about. If you want to wait you can do that but we don’t know when or how much better next gen cards will perform so it’s your choice.

[olesien]

8 minutes ago, IdiotPenguin said:

I think there might be slight bottleneck but since you’re at 1440p it’s not really much to worry about. If you want to wait you can do that but we don’t know when or how much better next gen cards will perform so it’s your choice.

How much of a bottleneck are we talking here?

[Luke D]

7 minutes ago, olesien said:

How much of a bottleneck are we talking here?

depends on the game and there are more than plenty CPU comparison vids online using high-end cards to get an idea for "bottlenecking"

[Jurrunio]

can you wait till the end of the year?

 

If you can, then wait for the next gen card to become somewhat more affordable.

 

If you can't, just grab a 1080ti

[Jaggsta]

Would wait till next month for new card announcements GTX 10 series cards will drop in value overnight once they announce the new cards

[olesien]

15 minutes ago, Jaggsta said:

Would wait till next month for new card announcements GTX 10 series cards will drop in value overnight once they announce the new cards

I guess I could, depends on whether it will drop by 10 or 100 dollars though

[Peskanova]

Dude that bottleneck on 1440p is like from 200-250 fps? if you have your fps to 144-165 you will have almost 0% bottleneck

Im playing at 1440p with a 4790k & 1070 and i notice more cpu usage when i switched from 144hz to 165hz(oc) but I'm runing my gpu at 99% and my cpu to 60-70%(plus browsers,ts,etc...) maybe you will have more cpu usage but you have better cpu so no bottleneck (maybe if you play csgo at crazy high fps ,240 or so)

[olesien]

Hm so... I tested in fortnite, rainbow six siege and gta to see wether the 1080 ti would be a potential bottleneck, and using RivaTuner all cpu cores and the graphics card, I found out that in fortnite at 100fps it was 100% graphics card and 60% CPU (which is fine I guess), however in both rainbow and gta, the cpu cores were at about 90% each.. (4.4ghz).
Doesn't this kind of indicate that maybe.. a 1080 ti would be a bottleneck as it's like 2x as powerful as the 1060?

[Geraldo Magella]

Hey Guys, I'm wondering them same. I'm tired of playing battefield 4 and having a hard time getting that quick shot and what not, you know? studer and sometimes lag.

 

Here is my rib. Bought couple of years back:

CPU: Intel Core i5-4690K - 93.2%
GPU: Nvidia GTX 960 - 42%
SSD: Samsung 850 Evo 250GB - 95.2%
HDD: WD Blue 1TB (2012) - 68.8%
RAM: Corsair Vengeance DDR3 1600 C9 2x8GB - 62.6%
MBD: Asus Z97-A

 

Where would you start upgradind it? From the GPU?

[Caremuch]

If you got the cash you could consider maybe the 6700k as a cheaper upgrade it might help with some of those issues as it can give more thread headroom for some of those games maybe check out tech yes city on youtube you might want to follow some of his windows 10 1803 optomization guide to try and tune down windows a bit for better gaming less junk running in the bg.  He does a lot of recycled builds using older parts and does them up to get great gaming pcs so you might find some solutions there. You could look at rivatuna and afterburner to lock fps if not using gsync 

[Geraldo Magella]

Can you provide a safe link to download rivatuner? I google it, but the site looked sketchy.

Thanks for your comment @Caremuch