Will an i5-4690k bottleneck a GTX 1080
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George Mulligan
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No way. That's still a great CPU, and gaming is more GPU intensive (you didn't say, but assuming your interest is gaming- if CAD, answer might be different). I'd even say you could SLI two 1080s without an issue.
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Yes but i have seen videos and i have searched and they say that the cpu is too weak.I dont believe that becaouse i have baught this cpu for 250$ and it is the best i5 haswell and no only that it is matching the i7 4790.Also it has a lot of potentional overclock
George Mulligan
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Please provide links to the videos or search results you reference. There is no way that CPU is "too weak", but I'd like to see what you're looking at.
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Its not "too weak" for any game out today. There may be a few games where the 4690k will tail behind an i7 like the 4790k but in the majority of titles there won't be much of a difference between them, especially if you get a decent cooler and overclock that thing thats the point of a k chip in my opinion.
Fallout 4 is one of the few games that shows a notable difference between the 4690k and the 4790k. I linked the benchmarks below.
http://www.gamersnexus.net/game-bench/2182-fallout-4-cpu-benchmark-huge-performance-difference
Fallout 4 is one of the few games that shows a notable difference between the 4690k and the 4790k. I linked the benchmarks below.
http://www.gamersnexus.net/game-bench/2182-fallout-4-cpu-benchmark-huge-performance-difference
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At 1080p 60hz you absolutely won't see any botllenecking and in my opinion you would be wasting the potential of a 1080 at that resolution. A 1070 would make more sense, unless you plan on getting like a high refresh rate 1440p monitor in the future or something.
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*SOME* games that are very CPU intensive will see a small bottleneck, but it's very small. Not anything to worry about, and definitely not worth upgrading to an i7.
For 1080p or 1440p @ 60Hz, a 1070 is MORE than enough. So you don't even really need a 1080.
For 1080p or 1440p @ 60Hz, a 1070 is MORE than enough. So you don't even really need a 1080.
George Mulligan
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Um, yeah, you can ignore that video lol...you'll be fine.
When you upgrade monitor, consider G-Sync... it improves gaming experience more than anything I've upgraded.
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