How well will a 1070 run with a i5 6500?

[Joker]

Hello!

I have just joined the forum as I am looking for a new gpu I have not had one for a couple months as I bought a 1050 TI and it was DOA so I returned it and I decided that I might as well get the best I can afford so I don't have to upgrade it for a while as I probably would have with the 1050 and if I want to dip my feet into 1440p. Now I wanted to know will a 1070 be a good match for the i5 6500? Will there be any signs of a botlekneck? I will be playing RTS games and AAA games mostly at 1080 60hz

Thanks for the help

 

[mattyfez]

Will run fine but probably overkill for 1080p at 60hz, however if you are getting a 1440 higher refresh.. monitor it will be a help.

CPU would then become the bottle neck though, so you might want to look at dropping in a second hand sky/kabby I7.
I guess a lot depends on how soon you intend to increase monitor resolution and/or refresh rate.

 

[Joker]

Will run fine but probably overkill for 1080p at 60hz, however if you are getting a 1440 higher refresh.. monitor it will be a help.

CPU would then become the bottle neck though, so you might want to look at dropping in a second hand sky/kabby I7.
I guess a lot depends on how soon you intend to increase monitor resolution and/or refresh rate.

Hi thanks for the reply I was maybe thinking of upgrading the CPU and monitor maybe at the end of this year as I was already planning on upgrading the CPU.my monitor is about 4 or so years old. I might switch completely to ryzen it depends .