i7 4770TE bottleneck?

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Hi, i have an i7 4770TE, it was going cheap on ebay so i picked one up, it has a low base clock of 2.5 ghz and boosts up to 3.3 i think.

My question is will this bottleneck a GTX 1070 if i try to run games at 1440p or 4K at reduced settings?

There isn't much info about this i7 on the internet but i assume the low clock speed will hurt performance

I can still return it so if it is a bottleneck its not a huge pain to deal with.
 
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Yes, a 4790 or 4790K will be better in recent games. Even an i7 2600K often beats 6th and 7th gen i5's in well-threaded games.
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I think in a majority of cases it should be fine.

CPUs don't really bottleneck video cards. Rather, they will just set the cap for how high your framerate can go in a game. A faster CPU will allow higher max framerates, assuming your video card can also deliver those framerates. Resolution and graphical settings have little to no impact on how many frames a CPU can deliver.
 
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Okay thanks, i know it will be almost impossible to answer but what kind of fps difference would i see going from a i7 4770te to an i5 6400 oc? if its a single digit bump i can live without it.

the i7 is also using slow 1333mhz ram, i would upgrade to 2666mhz ram with the i5 and probably oc both the CPU and ram
 
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Interesting, i thought with a large OC to like 4.5 ghz would make the 6400 surpass the 4770te but i guess not

I could get a 4790 for £20 more but i do like the power efficiency of the 4770te.

I might just keep what i've got, thanks.
 
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I had another look at how much i paid for the 4770te, it was £180, the 4790 goes for £192, price difference is £12, really hard to ignore that

The base clock of the 4790 is higher then the 4770te turbo clock..., even considering power consumption i think i'll go for the 4790.

Thanks again, i was fully prepared to buy an i5 6400 + mobo + ram, thinking it would provide better performance
 
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It some games it will probably provide better performance if you can OC it hard to like 4.5 Ghz and have fast RAM with it, you will also need z170 mobo that have old BIOS and a CPU cooler like 212 EVO to cool that 6400 and all that will cost more than just i7 alone.
But more and more new games use 4 or more cores/threads and i7 is starting to have bigger lead in performance over i5.
 
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I already have a evo 212 and buying the 6400 + ram + mobo is only £207, would you still recommend i get the 4790?
 
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current specs - i7 4770te, 12GB 1333mhz ram, cant remember the motherboard but its just a cheap MSI, gtx 1070, windows 10 pro

as far as i know any z170 motherboard supports overclocking skylake cpu's so i was going to grab a cheap one that i saw for £81
 
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Well if you go for 6400 route you will also need new copy of windows 10.Yes all z170 motherboards supports overclocking but only of K cpus so 6600k and 6700k. If you want to OC 6400 on z170 you will need to get custom BIOS for that board.
If you plan to get that 4790 update motherboard BIOS so they are 100% compatible.
 
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Yeah, i decided to just get the 4790 and return the 4770te, this method is cheaper, easier and considering the power consumption of the OC 6400, the 4790 will probably use much less power when idle or not being stressed.

I will have to upgrade my ram at some point though, thank you all for your advise
 
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