I have been looking at a system rebuild, and was wondering if a i5-4690K would be enough to run with a GTX980 or would it bottleneck the gpu in a noticeable fashion? If so any cpu suggestions in the £180 ballpark are more than welcome
Thanks
I have been looking at a system rebuild, and was wondering if a i5-4690K would be enough to run with a GTX980 or would it bottleneck the gpu in a noticeable fashion? If so any cpu suggestions in the £180 ballpark are more than welcome
Thanks
That CPU should be more than enough for a 980. Are there any games in particular you're wondering about?
gupsterg (20-09-2015),sirtrouserpress (17-09-2015)
Nothing in particular, just didn't want to be buying a high end card and not getting near full performance out of it from a poor choice of CPU.
i5 4690K @ 4.9GHz CPU@1.255v 4.4GHz Cache@1.10v - Archon SB-E X2 - Asus Maximus VII Ranger
Kingston HyperX Savage 16GB@2400MHz 1T - Sapphire R9 Fury X (1145/545 Custom ROM, ~17.7K 3DM FS)
Samsung 840 Evo 250GB - Cooler Master V850
R7 1700@3.8GHz - Archon IB-E X2 - Asus Crosshair VI Hero - G.Skill Trident Z 3200MHz C14 - Sapphire Fury X (1145/545 Custom ROM, ~17.2K 3DM FS)
Samsung 840 Evo 250GB - Cooler Master V850
There isn't much that's faster than an i5-4690k, so it's only going to be a bottleneck in games where all CPUs are.
gupsterg (20-09-2015)
That's a good choice. My only other suggestion is a Core i5-6600K ~ £200.
i5 4690K @ 4.9GHz CPU@1.255v 4.4GHz Cache@1.10v - Archon SB-E X2 - Asus Maximus VII Ranger
Kingston HyperX Savage 16GB@2400MHz 1T - Sapphire R9 Fury X (1145/545 Custom ROM, ~17.7K 3DM FS)
Samsung 840 Evo 250GB - Cooler Master V850
R7 1700@3.8GHz - Archon IB-E X2 - Asus Crosshair VI Hero - G.Skill Trident Z 3200MHz C14 - Sapphire Fury X (1145/545 Custom ROM, ~17.2K 3DM FS)
Samsung 840 Evo 250GB - Cooler Master V850
that CPU will not bottleneck a GTX 980 if you ever have frame drops it almost always is the GPU because getting a game to be cpu limited with basically any I5 is very difficult
One of my friends have that same set up but with an EVGA GTX 980ti and it plays games like Fallout 4 and Battlefield 4 in 1440P no sweat!
Depends on resolution, I have i3-4330 and still get 60fps at 1440p. Graphics cards is more important than cpu.
980Ti/4670k here, doesn't miss a beat at 1440p
That processor will be fine.
Take a look at this link. I still have a 2500k and I am happy with it.
http://www.ocaholic.ch/modules/smart...id=1158&page=1
Absolutely fine - the i5 can handle a 980Ti, especially when overclocked.
You'd have a hard time trying to bottleneck a high end GPU with a CPU Even a Pentium G3450 with a GTX980 would likely only drop a few FPS (Unless of course the game was heavily CPU bound )
Depends on the metric you use - frame-time assessments suggest that you'd definitely see a difference in frame latency and perceived smoothness.
But yeah, unless OP is using a 120Hz+ display then they're unlikely to hit GPU limitation with any decent CPU made in the last 4 years outside of some RTS edge cases.
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