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Hey everybody, I just recently ordered a GTX 690 (haven't yet received it) to go along with the rest of my rig, and I keep wondering if my i5 3570k is going to end up becoming a bottleneck for this card. I know according to what most people say that it won't bottleneck any video cards, but the 690 is a really powerful card and I just want to be sure that i'm not holding it back at all. Seeing all of the cpu intensive games like Planetside 2, Arma 2, and BF3 make me start to wonder if I should have just got the i7 for the extra threads... Anyway, if anyone could tell me whether my CPU will provide to be a bottleneck or not, I would greatly appreciate it. Thanks :)
 
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That's just poorly optimized, ex. Skyrim. That's also not the cpu bottlenecking the gpu, it's the game that is the bottleneck.

The answer is no, the 3570k will not bottleneck that card at all. It's the best gaming offering on the market right now.
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That processor will not be a bottleneck. i7 is rarely a benefit in gaming.
 
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It depends on the game.

Most CPU bound games are always going to be CPU bound (they don't demand too much out of the GPU)

And even then, you're not going to gain that much more of a performance gain after you overclock the 3570k. (which will perform just as well as 3770k or 3930k in almost all of the games...)
 
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That's just poorly optimized, ex. Skyrim. That's also not the cpu bottlenecking the gpu, it's the game that is the bottleneck.

The answer is no, the 3570k will not bottleneck that card at all. It's the best gaming offering on the market right now.
 
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Well ya. But all poorly optimized games can be brute forced with more powerful hardware lol.
 
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Not entirely true. Oblivion sucks on an fx processor since is uses only one thread. Similar to playing dungeon keeper on a newer system as well. The engine just was not designed for more than one core and many games have permanent bottlenecks due to software limitations.
 
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until you overclock a single core to like 5 ghz lol...
 
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Assuming that you can actually do that, yes. But how many people want to void warranty and even more so, how many actually know how to overclock? It's a small fraction of computer users so really it's a useless argument.
 
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