GTX 1070 and i53570k

BeadyRoller · 9 Jul 2016 at 09:01

Hi so I'm close to buying a 1070 but want to know if my i5 3570k will bottleneck it at all? It's still at stock 3.4ghz as haven't got round to overclocking yet.

Am I safe to go ahead with the purchase?

Thanks.

Minstadave · 9 Jul 2016 at 09:02

Yup it's a good match but overclock the 3570k as there's a good chunk of free performance to be had.

BeadyRoller · 9 Jul 2016 at 10:17

So there would be no bottlenecking at all?

Orcvader · 9 Jul 2016 at 10:19

What resolution do you play at?

Yesa there shouldn't be any bottlenecking but as above, overclock it, it can easily go past 4GHz.

Minstadave · 9 Jul 2016 at 10:20

Even if you're bottlenecked the performance will be good and you can crank up anti-aliasing to get your GPU working hard.

BeadyRoller · 9 Jul 2016 at 10:41

I only play at 1080p lads.

Jono8 · 9 Jul 2016 at 10:49

BeadyRoller said:
So there would be no bottlenecking at all?

Yes there will be but it will depend on the game. Most games will probably be fine though.

I certainly think it would be worth overclocking it though.

r7slayer · 9 Jul 2016 at 11:32

Your more cpu bound at say 1080p than 1440p or 1600p.

But your i5 3570k should easily hit 4.2Ghz without a sweat. I had a really bad chip and it could overclock to 4.2 after that was a brick wall that needed some hefty extra voltage to get 4.3+ stable. 4.2 believe it or not was at stock volts.

Anyways yea give it a modest overclock to 4.2 or atleast 4ghz.

This should allow all cores to run at 4Ghz as CPU turbo will only boost to 3.8 on one core if its only using one core which now days never happens. or 3.7 if using two cores or 3.6 on all cores.

But bottleneck wise id say not really it will be game dependant as it youll only notice a bottleneck on CPU intensive games or DX11 games which the API is the bottleneck.

BeadyRoller · 9 Jul 2016 at 11:39

Thanks for the replies. So if I overclock I've got less chance of a bottleneck?

r7slayer · 9 Jul 2016 at 11:49

BeadyRoller said:
Thanks for the replies. So if I overclock I've got less chance of a bottleneck?

Yea pretty much but your not going to hit a bottleneck in many games just cpu intensive games.

So overclock to get less chance of hitting a bottleneck.

BeadyRoller · 9 Jul 2016 at 13:20

Problem is I do played CPU heavy games like DayZ and Arma 3 which may cause an issue?

Minstadave · 9 Jul 2016 at 13:22

Overclocking will make those games run better.

Jono8 · 9 Jul 2016 at 13:26

BeadyRoller said:
Problem is I do played CPU heavy games like DayZ and Arma 3 which may cause an issue?

Arma 3 is very cpu-centric. Might even be worth getting an i7 for that.

Minstadave · 9 Jul 2016 at 13:31

Jono8 said:
Arma 3 is very cpu-centric. Might even be worth getting an i7 for that.

Don't think an i7 helps much, ARMA3 largely runs on a single thread, CPU speed is king.

BeadyRoller · 9 Jul 2016 at 13:31

Problem is I have a Z77 motherboard which won't fit an i7 so I'd have to upgrade my motherboard plus a CPU and a 1070 so it would be very expensive.

harney · 9 Jul 2016 at 13:32

BeadyRoller said:
Problem is I do played CPU heavy games like DayZ and Arma 3 which may cause an issue?

Yep if that's the game's your playing then OC it you may as well

free gains is free and everybody love's something for free

should make your pc overall more snappy responsive in the OS as well as no / less bottle necking in games

there are some great OC guides out there if your unsure

Also do you run Vsync on or off

BeadyRoller · 9 Jul 2016 at 13:38

I usually play with Vsync off. I have a 144hz monitor. I just don't want to spend 400 quid on a graphics card and I'm not getting the full performance because of my CPU.

r7slayer · 9 Jul 2016 at 14:04

BeadyRoller said:
Problem is I have a Z77 motherboard which won't fit an i7 so I'd have to upgrade my motherboard plus a CPU and a 1070 so it would be very expensive.

Z77 supports i7 lol. I swapped out my i5 3570k for a i7 3770k
Ive got the MSI Z77 GD65 motherboard

Jono8 · 9 Jul 2016 at 14:13

Minstadave said:
Don't think an i7 helps much, ARMA3 largely runs on a single thread, CPU speed is king.

Really?

This sort of thing cant just be because of the 0.2ghz/sandy to skylake ipc increase i wouldn't have thought

http://forums.joinsquad.com/topic/5973-my-2500k-vs-6700k-upgrade-fps-results-hefty-fps-increase/

Nearly double the FPS in ARMA 3 and more than double in minimums for Crysis 3 ( for Crysis 3 i can verify myself a big jump from going from an i5 2500k to an i7 3700k at similar clocks in those grass bits).

BeadyRoller · 9 Jul 2016 at 14:13

r7slayer said:
Z77 supports i7 lol. I swapped out my i5 3570k for a i7 3770k
Ive got the MSI Z77 GD65 motherboard

http://www.gigabyte.com/products/product-page.aspx?pid=4140#ov

That's my motherboard.