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1070 TI with i5 2500K?

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Hi guys how would my i5 2500K @ 4.4ghz fair out with a 1070 TI @ 1440?

Currently have a 970 running with my new 1440 144hz monitor, im wondering will i see much performance gain with a 1070ti?

Ofcourse my 2500K wont do it justice but im planning a new build early 2018 to compliment the monitor and 1070ti.
 
At that res the graphic card will always be the bigger bottleneck- unless you were playing CPU demanding games with dated game engine that use no more than 1-2 CPU threads/cores.

The SandyBridge 2nd gen Core i series CPU was the last mainstream CPU that still use the good old soldering between the chip and the heatspreader, so despite it was an older architecture that's less power efficient, it is much better as transferring the heat away comparing CPUs from the IvyBridge CPUs onward that uses "pigeon poo" TIM between the chip and the heatspreader, and trapping the heat within the CPU and resulting average of 10C or higher in temp than it should.
 
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Whilst you are 100% correct in what you say opethdisciple, the question from the OP is whether he/she would see much performance gain with a 1070ti and the answer to that is yes.

A 2500k @ 4.4Ghz is still fast enough to drive a 1070ti given the stagnation in CPU development from Intel these last few years.
 
In most games I would probably say yes it would be a big upgrade unless,as mentioned earlier,you play games where one or two cores are taxed massively and also in ones which can use more than 4 cores effectively.
 
My 2600k @4.8Ghz and Gtx1080 are working together very well at 1440p. Your 2500k may suffer a bit in games that take advantage of 8 threads. But it will still work well.

My setup gets 100fps on most games on ultra settings.
 
It will probably run terrible I know my 3570k did with my 1080 on gta5/need4speed/battlefield/starwars these were all 100% full cores just unplayble stutter , the only game I played that it was fine with the 3570k/1080 was
overwatch.

I would at least grab a second hand i7 to put in there.
 
I personally found my 3570k at 4.4Ghz a big bottleneck even for a GTX 970.

But then if the OP can only afford one or the other than get the GPU. It will still be an upgrade.
 
As you're doing a new build quite soon, I wouldn't worry. Yes, there will be restricted performance some of the time, but I'm sure you'll still see a nice boost in fps in a great majority of games during the interim.
 
Yes it will be a big bottleneck, my 2500k 4.6 bottlenecks a regular 980 in certain titles.

imo 4 threaded cpus are not enough for anything higher than a 980/1060/580 and can bottleneck these in some games too

if you do go ahead with it though it will be okay in some singleplayer games but I imagine games like BF1/SW:Battlefront/Tw:Warhammer/AC:origins etc will become stutterfests as the cpu will be at 100% usage
 
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