i7 with gtx 960 ssc bottleneck??

i try and budget · Nov 9, 2015

right now i have an i3 4160 with gtx 960 ssc. ive also been streaming lately with obs using the nvidia gpu encoding feature on there. even with that on my stream isnt laggy but cpu usage is high, for christmas im gnna try and get an i7, wouldnt that be a bottleneck?? even if it is i can still get it mainly for the streaming part right? i know that the cpu will be held back alittle but itll still perform good

Eximo · Nov 9, 2015

Not really sure what part you think would bottleneck. CPU and GPU are really doing different duties when it comes to rendering and streaming. Rendering is really going to be primarily up to the GPU with the CPU feeding it information. Streaming is all about data transfer managed by the CPU. An i7 isn't going to be any faster per core then an i3, it just has double the resources. Basically what you are accomplishing is separating your streaming from the needs of the game engine. This will improve overall performance, but not change any bottlenecking between your GPU and CPU.

Short version. Your GTX960 isn't bottlenecked now, and an i7 won't be bottlenecked by a 'weak' GPU. CPU will just have more cycles to do what it needs and the GPU will show more or less the same performance. (Maximum frame rates will by the same, minimum should improve)

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