Intel i5 2500 3.3GHz (non-k)... Think this will bottleneck a gtx 980ti strix running at 1440p with ultrawide monitor?

Billy ball bags

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I still have my GTX 970 installed and I tried looking for bottlenecking by running system monitor whilst fallout 4 was running on max settings. I noticed 1 of the 4 CPU's at 100% but all the others were at about 40%, the game doesn't run very smoothly though imo. Last time I played it the fps fluctuated quite heavily between 40 and 70 fps. Some areas (mostly cities) are just plain bleh...

But I'm not sure if the gpu was at 100% since I couldn't get the osd to show the data.

I've seen that bottlenecking isn't nearly as bad a problem as thought, but am I really asking too much of this particular Sandybridge i5 2500 (nonK) if I hook it up to the GPU?

If I do need to replace it, can you recommend a really well priced CPU + Motherboard combo please? Thanks chaps!

 
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Fallout 4 is CPU bound more than GPU bound. It runs like crap on everything, even newer stuff.

The i5-2500 at stock speeds and 970 are a good match for each other. The 980ti would underperform a bit with it in some games.

Codrru

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Well I can tell you one thing, I'd you see 1 core at 100 and the rest at 40, your cpu is being bottle necked by the ram, your memory controller chip is trying to draw cache from the ram but the ram is processing too slowly to even load the external data bus. So, first tell us what ran you currently have.