Will my CPU bottleneck the 1070 and should I upgrade?

Wolfz · May 29, 2016

Hey everyone! So I currently have an i7-4770k OC'd at 4.4ghz on water and I'm looking to upgrade my GPU (a Gigabyte GTX 780 OC Rev2.0) to a GTX 1070 or 1080. I doubt I will need a 1080 seeing that I'm only gaming at 1080p (maybe upscale the resolution if the game offers it), but I would still like some headroom to have that extra power in my gpu for the next couple of years. The 1080 seems a bit overkill, so I'm settling on the 1070, considering it's at a nice price point as well. However, I wanted to ask a good community that has more experience individuals if there is any part of my computer I should upgrade to make sure I don't have any bottlenecking going on. I am also in the midst of upgrading my RAM to Corsair Vengeance Pro Series 16GB 2400Mhz due to having issues with my ram being maxed out while multitasking as I game. But, my plans are to purchase a Zotac 1070, I haven't settled on which one, but it will be a non-reference card.

My current setup:
Azza Toledo 301
ASRock Z87 Extreme3
16GB Corsair Vengeance 1600Mhz
Intel i7-4770k
GIGABYTE GV-N780OC 3GB WindForce 3X
1TB WD HDD
250GB Samsung Evo SSD (Boot Drive)
240GB Adata SSD
Corsair TX750 V2 Bronze Plus

RCFProd · May 29, 2016

A CPU as powerful as the i7-4770k? Ofcourse not. Still one of the strongest affordable consumer processors on the market. Everything you have in your system is ready to drive an Nvidia GTX 1070 or GTX 1080. On another note, how do you mean maxed out on RAM? How do you expect 16GB DDR3-2400 to solve it compared to 16GB DDR3-1600?

Wolfz · May 29, 2016

RCFProd :

My RAM will reach 100% usage while I'm gaming and have Chrome up in the background for music, a youtube video, or a stream or whatever else. I might be playing Ark: Survival Evolved, or Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege and have Chrome up on my other monitor playing music or a youtube video and my RAM usage will reach 100% and sometimes even causes my computer to crash and I have to reboot. I created a different thread about my RAM issue and a moderator replied saying that if I get the 2400Mhz RAM I shouldn't have anymore issues in terms of multitasking. I'm not looking to get more FPS from my RAM, I just want to be able to multitask without my computer crashing or slowing down.

RCFProd · May 29, 2016

Wow what, can you link to the thread who told you that? Because It's utter non-sense. Your issue is not with 1600 or 2400 Mhz. You're suffering from huge memory leak issues. Changing to 2400 Mhz RAM will absolutely not even come close to solving your problem.

16GB is perfect for multitasking and MORE than enough for the things you use. Have you tried monitoring what's filling up the memory use? There should be a single executable taking up all the memory. Want you want to do is stop the executable from doing it.

Wolfz · May 29, 2016

RCFProd :

Here's the link to the thread I made http://www.tomshardware.com/answers/id-3073359/ram-1600mhz-2400-mhz-multitasking-issue.html

Typically the game that I'm playing takes up most of the RAM (anywhere from 6 - 12gb of RAM sometimes) Although Chrome has reached 4 - 6GB of RAM usage before as well.

Evil Mastermind · May 29, 2016

I hope you aren't trolling right because i5 won't bottleneck it. (Bottleneck = when you put big thing right next to small thing) I don't even i3 bottleneck the card right now. (maybe like few %)

Wolfz · May 29, 2016

Evil Mastermind :

I didn't think it would, but I always check with people on Tom's Hardware because I often find they know a lot more than I do about computers and things I should know/lookout for when upgrading or if I have an issue.

Evil Mastermind · May 29, 2016

Sorry if I came out to be too mean xD. I am jelly also. xD dont worry about it and upgrade 1070

I heard its a great card for its price.

Epicness937 · May 29, 2016

with that cpu your more than ok you could do a 1080 sli and be fine

RCFProd · May 29, 2016

Wolfz :

I would honestly be suprised if you're utilizing the full 16GB with just Chrome and a game, that's quite impressive lol. If you are adding your RAM so you have 32GB effective RAM, then ok I understand. But if you are replacing it with 2400Mhz RAM then no it can't be your solution.

I have Chrome open in the background when I play Battlefield 4 or name whatever game and I rarely to never run into issues with only 8GB of system memory lol.

You are also talking about system crashes when It's full used, there are strange points that are not related the system just being fully utilized, there is something wrong I think.

Epicness937 · May 29, 2016

RCFProd :

Wolfz :

I would honestly be suprised if you're utilizing the full 16GB with just Chrome and a game, that's quite impressive lol. If you are adding your RAM so you have 32GB effective RAM, then ok I understand. But if you are replacing it with 2400Mhz RAM then no it can't be your solution.

I have Chrome open in the background when I play Battlefield 4 or name whatever game and I rarely to never run into issues with only 8GB of system memory lol.

You are also talking about system crashes when It's full used, there are strange points that are not related the system just being fully utilized, there is something wrong I think.

16gb? 4K VIDEOS

Wolfz · May 30, 2016

Epicness937 :

RCFProd :

Wolfz :

I would honestly be suprised if you're utilizing the full 16GB with just Chrome and a game, that's quite impressive lol. If you are adding your RAM so you have 32GB effective RAM, then ok I understand. But if you are replacing it with 2400Mhz RAM then no it can't be your solution.

I have Chrome open in the background when I play Battlefield 4 or name whatever game and I rarely to never run into issues with only 8GB of system memory lol.

You are also talking about system crashes when It's full used, there are strange points that are not related the system just being fully utilized, there is something wrong I think.

16gb? 4K VIDEOS

If I'm having a memory leak what can I do to fix that? Does that mean the RAM is bad? The MOBO is bad? What exactly am I dealing with then?

RCFProd · May 30, 2016

Epicness937 :

RCFProd :

Wolfz :

I would honestly be suprised if you're utilizing the full 16GB with just Chrome and a game, that's quite impressive lol. If you are adding your RAM so you have 32GB effective RAM, then ok I understand. But if you are replacing it with 2400Mhz RAM then no it can't be your solution.

I have Chrome open in the background when I play Battlefield 4 or name whatever game and I rarely to never run into issues with only 8GB of system memory lol.

You are also talking about system crashes when It's full used, there are strange points that are not related the system just being fully utilized, there is something wrong I think.

16gb? 4K VIDEOS

Epicness937 · May 30, 2016

RCFProd :

Epicness937 :

RCFProd :

16gb? 4K VIDEOS

try running a different browser (not chrome) and see if you use so much memory
also go to system properties and check the usable ram

Wolfz · May 30, 2016

Epicness937 :

So I opened up Microsoft Edge and went to YouTube and started to play a video at 1080p and it's using about 1/7th the memory that Chrome is using. If I am having a "memory leak" issue does that mean my RAM is going bad, or could it just be a number of things that I'd have to diagnose for?

Edited:

My computer at idle (with no programs up) sits at 3gb RAM used. I'm using the Task Manager to see what my RAM/CPU/DISK usage is btw. When I have Steam, TeamSpeak and Chrome up (with 4 tabs and a few extensions) my RAM usage sits at about 4.1 - 4.2gb. When I open up Ark: Survival Evolved on top of all everything I just said prior, my RAM usage goes to about 8.7 - 9gb. My CPU usage never goes beyond about 45% and my GPU is at 100% then entire time (It's going to be retired very soon).

RCFProd · May 30, 2016

3GB idle is normal for Windows 10. Also, memory leak is fully software related and not hardware related so there should actually be nothing wrong with your RAM.

Perform a memory check with the Windows Memory Diagnostic tool just to make sure everything is fine. I suspect not.

Memory leaks can be tricky to solve, I will need more information if I'm going to suggest a way to fix it (if it exists at all).

Wolfz · May 30, 2016

RCFProd :

Okay, so I ran a memory diagnostic and everything came back fine in the diagnostic. I thought I should mention that I purchased some 2400Mhz RAM partially due to this issue, but as well as the fact that I plan to stream some over the summer too. The RAM is supposed to arrive tomorrow, but if there are any programs or suggestions to diagnosing this issue then I am all ears (eyes =P) for some help! I'll also let you know if the issue is some how resolved by putting in the new RAM tomorrow.

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