Avoiding a bottleneck

[Steven4547466]

Hello, first I want to mention, I've never built a PC before, but I really want to. So I want it to be good and to avoid any sort of bottleneck, I just want to know if my GPU will bottleneck my CPU and vice versa. I currently can only play games at around 20 FPS (HP laptops are absolute garbage, don't go through them had to replace my hard drive 3 times for the same HP related error) so you can see my want to upgrade.

 

I hope to achieve at least 60 FPS on most games, if not more (the monitors I am getting are 24" 1080 1ms response time 144 refresh rate, is that good for my primary monitor as well?). Honestly I want to use amazing graphics on every game because with my current laptop I get the low FPS on the lowest settings, I've never experienced higher graphics above .0002 FPS. Either way, the point of this is to ask this: will the GTX 1080 8 GB and i7 8700K 3.7GHz (6 core) be a bottleneck that I will have to deal with or should I re-plan my parts before I buy them.

 

Thanks!

-Steven

 

 

(These are all the parts I plan to use, already have the case so that one is set. https://pcpartpicker.com/user/Steven4547466/saved/ if you want to give me any more tips, but from what I've looked up this is good for the time. And yes, it costs a lot, but it's in the budget)

[KarathKasun]

That is a good combination for what you are looking for.  There is never a perfect GPU/CPU combination because not all games use the same amount of both, but 8700k + 1080 will cover 99% of cases at 1080p.

[Steven4547466]

1 minute ago, KarathKasun said:

That is a good combination for what you are looking for.  There is never a perfect GPU/CPU combination because not all games use the same amount of both, but 8700k + 1080 will cover 99% of cases at 1080p.

Thanks for the fast reply!

[SHROUD]

7 hours ago, Steven4547466 said:

Hello, first I want to mention, I've never built a PC before, but I really want to. So I want it to be good and to avoid any sort of bottleneck, I just want to know if my GPU will bottleneck my CPU and vice versa. I currently can only play games at around 20 FPS (HP laptops are absolute garbage, don't go through them had to replace my hard drive 3 times for the same HP related error) so you can see my want to upgrade.

 

I hope to achieve at least 60 FPS on most games, if not more (the monitors I am getting are 24" 1080 1ms response time 144 refresh rate, is that good for my primary monitor as well?). Honestly I want to use amazing graphics on every game because with my current laptop I get the low FPS on the lowest settings, I've never experienced higher graphics above .0002 FPS. Either way, the point of this is to ask this: will the GTX 1080 8 GB and i7 8700K 3.7GHz (6 core) be a bottleneck that I will have to deal with or should I re-plan my parts before I buy them.

 

Thanks!

-Steven

 

 

(These are all the parts I plan to use, already have the case so that one is set. https://pcpartpicker.com/user/Steven4547466/saved/ if you want to give me any more tips, but from what I've looked up this is good for the time. And yes, it costs a lot, but it's in the budget)

Something like this should be more than enough for 1080p gaming...

 

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel - Core i5-8400 2.8GHz 6-Core Processor  ($179.99 @ Amazon) 
Motherboard: ASRock - B360M Pro4 Micro ATX LGA1151 Motherboard  ($71.98 @ Newegg) 
Memory: Team - Vulcan 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR4-3000 Memory  ($80.98 @ Newegg) 
Storage: ADATA - Ultimate SU650 240GB 2.5" Solid State Drive  ($39.99 @ Newegg Business) 
Storage: Seagate - Barracuda 2TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive  ($59.39 @ OutletPC) 
Video Card: MSI - Radeon RX 580 8GB ARMOR OC Video Card  ($229.99 @ Newegg) 
Case: Cooler Master - MasterBox Q300L MicroATX Mini Tower Case  ($39.49 @ Newegg Business) 
Power Supply: Cooler Master - MasterWatt 550W 80+ Bronze Certified Semi-Modular ATX Power Supply  ($50.98 @ Newegg) 
Total: $752.79
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2018-09-08 04:48 EDT-0400

 

Basically 8700k+1080 is overkill fr 1080p..

If ur aim is 60+fps at 1080p... build the pcpp list that I have shared above ND save a few bucks...

[Steven4547466]

5 hours ago, SHROUD said:

Something like this should be more than enough for 1080p gaming...

 

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel - Core i5-8400 2.8GHz 6-Core Processor  ($179.99 @ Amazon) 
Motherboard: ASRock - B360M Pro4 Micro ATX LGA1151 Motherboard  ($71.98 @ Newegg) 
Memory: Team - Vulcan 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR4-3000 Memory  ($80.98 @ Newegg) 
Storage: ADATA - Ultimate SU650 240GB 2.5" Solid State Drive  ($39.99 @ Newegg Business) 
Storage: Seagate - Barracuda 2TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive  ($59.39 @ OutletPC) 
Video Card: MSI - Radeon RX 580 8GB ARMOR OC Video Card  ($229.99 @ Newegg) 
Case: Cooler Master - MasterBox Q300L MicroATX Mini Tower Case  ($39.49 @ Newegg Business) 
Power Supply: Cooler Master - MasterWatt 550W 80+ Bronze Certified Semi-Modular ATX Power Supply  ($50.98 @ Newegg) 
Total: $752.79
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2018-09-08 04:48 EDT-0400

 

Basically 8700k+1080 is overkill fr 1080p..

If ur aim is 60+fps at 1080p... build the pcpp list that I have shared above ND save a few bucks...

It might be, but I want this computer to last me so I don't need to upgrade it every other year which is the reason I chose the parts that I did, this will last me a while before needing an upgrade. And money isn't the problem I just wanted to know if there was gonna be a bottleneck. (Also my current experience with AMD video cards is terrible)