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I5 6500 and a GTX1080Ti

mrh2019

mrh2019

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Hi, just want peoples views, my gaming pc is in my Sig below. My question, is the I5 6500 cpu a bad choice to run with a GTX1080Ti, will it create a bottle neck.
I'm in the process of going back to custom water cooling, so the gpu will be overclocked.
This is just a gaming pc using a 4k monitor and HTC Vive.
Options are,
Get a z170 mb, get an old bios and over clock the I5 6500 cpu.
Change mb and cpu, blue or red team.
Or keep as is.
What are peoples views.
 
Boggles my mind, you fork out for a 4K Gaming setup with a 1080ti and then adding a custom waterloop but yet you skimp on the CPU? Id get shot of that i5 and buy something with a bit more forward thinking and life in it like an i7 or a Ryzen 8/16 chip, hell even the 1600 is a better choice than that i5.

Personally if it was me id get an 7700k, 1600 or 1700 AMD ryzen, mobo and DDR4 ram to go with the rest of those bits and get shot of the i5.
 
I didn't "skimp" on the cpu, this setup was my main non gaming pc, my original gaming pc went.. well best not ask that. Anyway have an itx build for the main pc now, this I5 build has been slowly becoming my new gaming build over the last 4 month's. It was never built as a gaming rig, it's just become one.
 
It's not the best idea TBH. VR on a Pascal chip isn't ideal and a stock speed Intel quad core will hold the GPU back in games.
 
jigger said:
AMD or see what Volta brings. Volta should have all the bases covered.
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1080Ti just stomps over everything with the current VR headsets and games, in fact it turns around and then goes back for another good stomping session...

OK jokes apart, but I think you need to look at reviews and benchmarks for GPU’s.

What I'm asking is, could the I5 6500 CPU running at stock cause a bottleneck for the system. Now, the system is in a pile of bit's as I’m going back to custom water-cooling and would be the ideal time to change MB and CPU if the general conscience is that it could cause a bottle neck...

Also, note the most of the games are running at 4K on the monitor and 2.5+ super sampling on the Vive.
 
I think you might be surprised. Nvidia are very reliant on stars aligning and offloading work that really should be done on the GPU. A Pascal GPU + an Intel quad core isn't ideal at all. Add Vulcan and DX12 to the mix and...

Anyway that's a threads for graphics cards and probably a discussion for another forum.
 
a nice balanced system is always best.as above with a i5 i wouldnt be pairing it with that card but...if you have it already try it.probably be fine in most games.
 
My second setup which I use as a HTPC is a 6600K @ stock and I have used it to test out my 1080Ti before adding it to a loop in my main rig. The 1080Ti was very much bottlenecked.

My advice would be to upgrade to a 6700K/7700K.
 
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