will my i7 2600 bottleneck the new gtx 1070, or maybe 1080?

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i have it somewhat overclocked at around 4.370, and i am wanting to play the new battlefield 1 on ultra either 1080p, or 1440p. this will more than likely be my last upgrade to my system, after this i plan on building another.

my current system is
evga 850 psu
i7 2600 (non k) oc to 4.3 ghz
24 Gb 1600 ram
Evga gtx 970 ssc
 
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not much of a bottleneck. in a small handful of games like the witcher 3.... in a very few cpu heavy portions of the game... you may gain 5fps by having a 6700k@4.4ghz. if those 5fps are worth a $400+ cpu/mobo/ram upgrade then that is your choice. otherwise there still are no meaningful benchmarks that show any appreciable fps gain.

dont worry about pcie 2.0 vs 3.0, it wont make a difference either.

how did you get your i7-2600 to 4.3ghz? i thought 4.1ghz was the max for the non k model.
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If it does who cares it will be more powerful then what you currently own, but four cores at 4.3GHZ and eight threads should be enough for any game out there. But the GTX 1080 is twice as fast as a GTX Titan X so just find out when it releases.
 
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more than 2x as fast as a TITAN X
 
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You need to upgrade your CPU to at least 3rd generation Ivy Bridge such as Core i7 3770k to optimize your GTX 1070 at PCI-express 3.0. Your current Core i7 2600 is only the 2nd generation Sandy Bridge and its only support up to PCI-express 2.0. It has bottleneck for your current GTX970 and GTX1070.

You can upgrade to Core i7 3770k without upgrade your motherboard. The current Z68 motherboard is able to support PCI-express 3.0 only when you installed the 3rd generation intel CPU. Make sure you have flashed your motherboard BIOS to the latest firmware to support Core i7 3770k.
 
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not much of a bottleneck. in a small handful of games like the witcher 3.... in a very few cpu heavy portions of the game... you may gain 5fps by having a 6700k@4.4ghz. if those 5fps are worth a $400+ cpu/mobo/ram upgrade then that is your choice. otherwise there still are no meaningful benchmarks that show any appreciable fps gain.

dont worry about pcie 2.0 vs 3.0, it wont make a difference either.

how did you get your i7-2600 to 4.3ghz? i thought 4.1ghz was the max for the non k model.
 
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increased multiplier up by 4, increased blck to 104.3. :)
 
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Hey, can i ask you what mobo you have? And how are your rams running 1600 if cpu supports only 1333.
Asking because i have i7 2600 runnning stock on crapy mobo and i can not blck oc it.

Thanks
 
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