Is my CPU my bottleneck?

Sandmod

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Hello guys,

Ive been into PC's many years but have been a bit out of touch lately and I want to know whether its time for an upgrade or not.

I currently have an overclocked i5 3570k @ 4.7GHz on a Z77X-UD5H with 16GB Avexir DDR3-2666. I used it with a GTX 780Ti which was unlocked and heavily overclocked, but as it used to eject the heat of the sun I have since purchased a GTX 1070 and watercooled it and overclocked it as far as I can. But it seems that the GTX 1070 does not have any gains over my GTX 780Ti in terms of performance which was led me to believe that my CPU is the bottleneck. My PC is quick enough for most tasks so wrote off an upgrade until my friend upgraded his CPU and noticed a fair FPS bump on his old GFX card.

So, my question to you guys is will it make a difference and if so could you explain how/why, and is Intel or AMD the way forward?

Thanks for looking and appreciate any help :)
 
Let's rule out some stupid stuff- are you gaming at 60Hz with Vsync on?
Are you sure your PCIE X16 slot is set to x16 3.0 in bios and windows?
What power supply do you have? How old is it?
Have you run and compared everything stock?

Also possibly bad overclocks could be an issue.
 
No I turned V-sync off as it was giving terrible missed frames. I have my monitor clocked to 85hz and I have the framerstes limited to that. It's in a x16 slot and is set to 3.0 in bios but how does one check in windows?

The power supply is a Corsair TX750M and is about 4 year old. When they are stock I do loose quite a bit in terms of performance and FPS. It's more or less the same overclocked it's had for years, I checked it using geekbench against similar overclocked builds and that seems fine. I asked my friend to do a geekbench on his standard 6600k and he gets a significantly higher score over my overclocked 3570k

Thanks for getting back to me
 
Sandmod said:
No I turned V-sync off as it was giving terrible missed frames. I have my monitor clocked to 85hz and I have the framerstes limited to that. It's in a x16 slot and is set to 3.0 in bios but how does one check in windows?
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Download and run GPU-Z, it will show in there the PCI-E speed. Make sure to check it when there is load on the gpu, otherwise it will show x1.
 
Running a 3570k with 1070, in BF 1 it bottlenecks slightly but it's mostly okay although I'm due a CPU upgrade before GPU. Upgraded myself from 290 to 1070 and I can certainly feel it so something must be wrong with ya setup.
 
Thanks for the replies guys.

I checked GPU-Z and its running at PCIe x16 3.0, and whilst I was checking I thought id get some clock figures for yous. It seems to idle around 1506MHz but when its really trying and you can hear the chokes clicking away its sitting at 2100MHz, the memory on the other hand is clocked at 4608MHz.

Could you do me a favour Doogles and run a geekbench 4 test to see what score you get for your CPU? not sure what to use to get a score for the GPU.

Will post my up to date score when I get it shortly, cheers
 
Nobody has asked the obvious so here goes, what game? Some games are heavily cpu bound (eg source engine games), in titles like csgo which is entirely cpu bound It made next to no difference going from a 5850 to a 280x to a rx480.
 
its very varied my FPS depending on games to be honest. World of Warcraft is the game I play the most so id like to get the best experience on that where possible. For example overwatch I get 85 no problem. I knew about CPU vs GPU intensive games which made me think it might be my CPU holding things up for me. I am gaming at 1440p which is where I thought a GPU upgrade would help but it was minimal at most.

cheers
 
Sandmod said:
its very varied my FPS depending on games to be honest. World of Warcraft is the game I play the most so id like to get the best experience on that where possible. For example overwatch I get 85 no problem. I knew about CPU vs GPU intensive games which made me think it might be my CPU holding things up for me. I am gaming at 1440p which is where I thought a GPU upgrade would help but it was minimal at most.

cheers
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Overwatch Flies. I hit my G-sync limit on my 144Hz 1440P monitor in that game. Doom as well. Got a 1080.
 
yeah I never really had a problem with Overwatch, but like I say id like to know how to improve my WoW gaming experience. I'm led to believe it would therefore be the CPU?

If it is, then which CPU is best to go for? i5/i7/Ryzen?

Cheers :)
 
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