Is my 4770 past it?

[JanM]

Hi so been away from gaming a while.
My last build was my sabertooth z87 and 4770.... 16 gb corsair dominator ... 2013 ish.

Is this system still relevant or is it worth me building another pc now.

I want to use a nvidia rtx 3070 and play a bit of vr here and there.

 

[Dave2150]

At 4k you'll be fine with current CPU for another year or two.

1440P, you'll need a new CPU to get the most at this resolution, though by no means essential.

 

[Lokken86]

If you're going for a 3070 then yes I would recommend upgrading the processor. Especially for VR.

 

[JanM]

I'm mainly going to play 4k. However vr is just a session here and there nothing intensive.

So based on the answers above I'm ok to wait it out a little.

Will wait and see if theres some other input over the next few days before I decide.

Thanks so far

 

[pc-guy]

I think you will see performances being left on the table with that haswell CPU. It will be hammered hard and you are missing NVMe link.

anyway it won’t give you much more frames per second as 4K gaming is still GPU bottlenecked. but having a fast nvme drive may help the gaming experiences

 

[iamtheoneneo]

I have a 4770k and a 3070. Put it this way I currently have all components apart from an AMD CPU sat by my current pc ready to build.

I'm very frugal with my PC building, but you just know when its time.

 

[Rroff]

but having a fast nvme drive may help the gaming experiences

I just stuck a 970 Evo Plus in my X79 system to have a play (can't boot from it without a lot of messing about) but game load times and gaming use in general isn't massively different to my Evo 840 - the odd part of the loading process jumps almost instantly but the overall loading process is only marginally quicker.

Some non-gaming stuff it is ridiculously quick though.

 

[justwondering]

I have an i5 8600k @ 4.8ghz (6core, 6 threads) rtx 3080 and at 4k, I would say it depends on the game you are playing, generally speaking you should go just fine at 4k, but if playing Watch dogs legions at 4k with ultra settings, then it really hits up the CPU pretty hard, to such a degree the 3080 was at around 85 percent usage, but the cpu had become the bottleneck...... Currently pondering, either buying a used i7 9700k (8 cores 8 threads) or going for a 5600x and a b550 motherboard.

Based on the vast majority or AAA games that I have played at 4k, watchdogs legions is either very badly optimized at the moment, or is a sign of things to come....

Full analysis over at guru3d

https://www.guru3d.com/articles_pag..._graphics_performance_benchmark_review,9.html

 

[Rofflay]

At games i want to play at 1080p i get high frame rates at 4k i always get sub 60 on a new AAA game. It is easily to see that for the 4k era GPU always limits performance. People laughed at 3080 or 2080ti on 4770k but its the smart choice for 4k.

If you got cash you want thr fastest GPU possible for the 4k era full stop.