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Just bought a 1070

What res is your monitor?

And if you have a decent cooler strapped to the 3570K - i would try for larger clock to help the GTX 1070 breath more.
 
Plec said:
What res is your monitor?

And if you have a decent cooler strapped to the 3570K - i would try for larger clock to help the GTX 1070 breath more.
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playing at 1080p 144hz, yeah mine is clocked to 3.9ghz, i guess i'll find out soon enough!
 
Going for 144 fps puts a lot more pressure on your CPU. I'd be saving your monies to upgrade soonish.

Personally I had seriously chuggy game play with a 3570K GTX 1080 combo trying for 1440p100. Quite often in Witcher 3 and Battlefield 4/1 all the CPU cores would hit 100% and I could feel it, even if the FPS was still >60. I tried a 2600K and the extra threads stopped the chugging however sandy still couldn't bring the performance so I jumped to X99. Nowadays I'd obviously recommend something like the Ryzen 1600.
 
Depends on the game. In BF1 i had issues with a 3570k @4.4 bottlenecking at 980Ti when running at 1440p 144Hz monitor.

Virtually all of the other games I played however didn't seem to have any issues.

As for upgrading if you wanted too you can either jump onto Ryzen, but from my experience over the past couple of weeks is still a bit rough around the edges. Or you could wait for the new Intel 8xxx CPUs that will be out, hopefully, next month.
 
Yes it will bottleneck in some games, BF 1 with 64 player battles hates me but it's not that bad although I won't be getting another card with this CPU and I'll certainly be considering the 8700k when released. Other games are decent, you would get slightly higher frames with a 7700k, not enough to warrant the upgrade of RAM/CPU/Mobo just yet however.
 
if its for bf1 you want more cores.i5s can chug in big 64 mp games.you wont get 144fps if that what you after at 1080 anyway even on low.
 
Doogles said:
Yes it will bottleneck in some games, BF 1 with 64 player battles hates me but it's not that bad although I won't be getting another card with this CPU and I'll certainly be considering the 8700k when released. Other games are decent, you would get slightly higher frames with a 7700k, not enough to warrant the upgrade of RAM/CPU/Mobo just yet however.
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So you think my 3570k will be good enough for a while? if not would you suggest upgrading to a cheaper i7 or just wait a while?
 
If I may interject,

I run a 4790K. It was stock. I was getting 90-110 FPS in BF1 at 1440P. I overclocked the CPU to 4.5Ghz. I now get 110-130FPS in BF1. Same settings. I have a GTX 1080.
ANY i5 will bottleneck a high end GPU in highly multithreaded demanding games. Not all games, but some. i5 is dead. Long live i7/Ryzen. JM2C.
 
mistersprinkles said:
If I may interject,

I run a 4790K. It was stock. I was getting 90-110 FPS in BF1 at 1440P. I overclocked the CPU to 4.5Ghz. I now get 110-130FPS in BF1. Same settings. I have a GTX 1080.
ANY i5 will bottleneck a high end GPU in highly multithreaded demanding games. Not all games, but some. i5 is dead. Long live i7/Ryzen. JM2C.
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What i7 would you get? would you go all out and get a 7700k or would a cheaper one i7 be any good?
 
tally2425 said:
What i7 would you get? would you go all out and get a 7700k or would a cheaper one i7 be any good?
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Seeing as you already have the 1155 board you might want to look for a cheap used 3770K, 2700K, or 2600K (keeping in mind that only the 3770K will give you PCIE 3.0). And overclock it as hard as you can.

If you want a new machine, you should go with a Ryzen 8 core such as a Ryzen 1700, and overclock it, on an ASUS Strix B-350-F board with the 8 pack 3200Mhz DDR4 for Ryzen (16GB).

Or if you want to pay a bit more and wait until the end of October, the 8700K will be out, which is a 6 core mainstream i7 (vs current 4 core) which will be highly overclockable, and should be able to be a full Ghz faster than the Ryzen chips, while coming in 2 cores short of the cheaper 1700. The 8700K should be the go-to for max game performance.
 
tally2425 said:
So you think my 3570k will be good enough for a while? if not would you suggest upgrading to a cheaper i7 or just wait a while?
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No point in buying a i7 unless you get the 3770k (for a decent price under £100 imo), if you have the money and want to upgrade either the R5 1600 or 8700k will be what you want, the 3570k will still be fine, it might stutter sometimes in BF 1 but other than that it's still decent.
 
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