Bottleneck?

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Hi! New to these parts, after some advice. Very happy with my current PC, but Im just trying to see where my next potential bottleneck might occur. I game a fair bit on it, and am running most things at ultra 1080p, but I'm not 100% on where my next upgrade should be focused. Here's my spec :

i7 3770
8gb Corsair Vengeance 1600mhz
128gb SSD Samsung Evo 830
Sapphire R9 280X 3GB

I know they are pretty much the key areas, whats gonna bottleneck me first?!

Cheers in advance.
 
Hello and welcome :)

I would look updating the GPU, the rest is ok.

Oh, is your CPU k series - I would overclock :D
 
Ive got a Gigabyte GA-Z77-DS3H.

The processor isn't a K series, its served me well. But I'm not sure whether its still adequate for gaming or not. Im going to be moving the best parts from a Zalman Z9+, to a NZXT H440, thinking about slinging a 980ti in with it, just didnt want to do that if the Processor would hamstring that.
 
Your processor is more than fine for gaming, a 980ti (in my opinion) would be a fantastic upgrade, but a bit overkill for 1080p.

As you can see in my sig, I'm running a lesser processor and not bottlenecking at all :) even at 4K.
 
Thanks for your responses, looking at grabbing either the Fury X or a 980ti. I'm siding with the Fury X simply because the case I'm getting (NZXT H440) doesnt have the best airflow. So I'll water cool the processor and the GPU comes stock water cooled.

Any opinions on NZXT Gear? or the case itself?
 
Running the same cpu as you at 4.5ghz with a 980ti and the cpu is nowhere near the point where it would bottleneck the gpu, I don't think it would cause much of a bottleneck if I was running two 980ti gpu's.
 
I took the advice and upgraded to a MSI 6G 980ti.

However, Im still not getting mind blowing performance on GTA 5 (MSAA x8 granted), and even hit fps spikes on Fallout 4 in built up areas?

Is this normal for my setup?
 
Gta v is notoriously hard to play on ultra. Do you have your games on a ssd or a secondary hdd?

Not bring a 'k' cpu I take it its only running stock 3.4ghz?
 
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Are you running MSI Afterburner? You can add GPU & CPU usage into the OSD and that will give you an idea as to the percentage of GPU being used.
 
Gta v is notoriously hard to play on ultra. Do you have your games on a ssd or a secondary hdd?

Not bring a 'k' cpu I take it its only running stock 3.4ghz?

GTA is on a HDD, and Fallout is on an SSD.

My processor is a non-K 3770. But looking at the Afterburner stats, my processor doesnt really break a sweat.

Just paranoid this 980ti is a dud.
 
Can you run some tests and post up your peak temperatures, you already said you have air flow issues if its overheating it'll throttle back.
 
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