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Started by energy52 | | 3 answers
I5 2500K with a GTX 970 WIll there be a bottleneck
My current specs are
Asus Z68 MB with i5 2500K @ stock 3.3Ghz
8gig ddr3 1600mhz
Corsair TX v2 750W
1080p monitor
GTX 570

I will continue using a 1080p monitor and was wondering if a GTX970 would be a good GPU upgrade
Will the i5 2500K bottleneck the system on 1080p??
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a b C Monitor
September 24, 2014 9:33:20 PM

2500k on stock will bottleneck GTX970 very minimal, which you can ignore or, if you want, you can OC it a bit and the bottleneck is gone completely.

About the Skylake thing there, I can not say anything about the next gen procs until I see them a bit often and se how they do.
I kept my Q6600 also quite long, I skipped quite a few generations before going directly to i7 3770k.
I saw no meaningful price/performance gain going to those skipped generations since I am not the typed who upgrades his rig often.
September 24, 2014 2:40:04 PM

I own the same specs here except for an ASUS P8Z68-V PRO GEN3, 1333mhz on the RAM and a AX860W Corsair PSU ,with a BenQ 120hz 1920x1080(p?) monitor with 3D (always disabled)... But i own a 660GTX Ti

Yes,CPU is a 2500K at Stock.

I was thinking of upgrading to the GIGABYTE G1 GAMING GTX 970... Guess i can also ignore the bottleneck?, i would upgrade my MB and CPU mid 2015 when Intel's Skylake releases.

What do you think?

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a b C Monitor
September 23, 2014 12:46:36 AM

GTX 970 is definitely a good upgrade :) 
2500k could be a tiny little bit bottleneck to GTX 970 but you will never notice it and ignore it.
and
Your PSU is enough too.

Just get the GTX970 :) 

Consider also getting an SSD if you do not have one yet :) 

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