Will an i5 4670k bottleneck a gtx 780?

Josh-Sweeny · Oct 29, 2013

In my build I've been planning I was originally going for a 770 as my budget is around 1000 pounds. I also was planning on getting an i5 4670k with this as it fits quite well in my budget. However nvidia have had a massive price slash which I expected and thought that all i would do was get maybe 40 pound extra to maybe buy another game with the free ones you get with high end 700 series card. What I did not expect is that now the gtx 780 AMP is now down at 400 over 100 cheaper than it was so I thought I'd get this instead to even further beast out the pc and it fits well with my price range as it's only 50 pound more than I was willing to pay for my windforce 3x 770. My only worry is that maybe the i5 is not enough to accompany a 780, however if I move up to an i7 4770k then it will go quite a way over my budget. Is it worth getting the 780 because I can't really go over 1000 pounds too much

rolli59 · Oct 29, 2013

Josh-Sweeny · Oct 29, 2013

rolli59 :

Well that's vague

Optimus_Toaster · Oct 29, 2013

Probably not, especially if you overclock it.

Josh-Sweeny · Oct 29, 2013

Optimus_Toaster :

Is that no to the question in the title or the end of the question? Sorry for the awkwardly asked question.

rolli59 · Oct 29, 2013

Josh-Sweeny :

True vague or not http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/battlefield-4-graphics-card-performance,3634-10.html
I5 2500K with Geforce Titan scoring higher even at stock clocks than anything else! Not bottlenecking Titan not bottlenecking GTX780!

A must read for for gaming http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/gaming-cpu-review-overclock,3106-4.html

enemy1g · Oct 29, 2013

I have an i5-4670k with SLI 780s and my rig runs completely fine with no bottlenecks. The i5-4670k is an extremely powerful CPU, you shouldn't need to worry about bottlenecking with it.

Pete_the_Puma · Oct 29, 2013

No chip currently offers much better performance in most games than an overclocked i5-2500K or i5-3570K or i5-4670K. Not even the i7 series despite what some people say. The upgrade to an i7 will gain about 1-3 FPS in games at the most for about 100$ more. At that price even a GTX Titan seems like a great investment, getting you more than 1FPS/100$ increase. So maybe in the future we will have a much better CPU that will increase performance in current games but I would say that with any of the above CPU's your performance will depend on your GPU.

Valentin_N · Nov 17, 2013

Socket 2011 - This is perfect to multiple gpu setup. 7950 may not be the strongest but it's on same level as GTX770

BumpDR3 · Nov 17, 2013

As everyone else is saying, you will not even be close to bottlenecking a GTX 780 or even two GTX 780Ti's in SLI with an i5-4670K. As long as the rest of your system is up to snuff and I would assume that it is if you're using a Haswell processor, you shouldn't have any bottlenecks for your 780 or 780Ti if you go that route.

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