4970K vs 8700K

[mirceaizvoran]

Hi there. Is it worth upgrading from 4970k to 8700k...i have 32GB RAM, 512 SSD and GTX1080...is my current CPU bottlenecking the video card?....Is it worth it? Thanks

 

[dontlistentome]

My opinion on this is that the issue is not bottlenecking, it's actual performance. Is your setup not giving you the performance you need/want? If you're getting the performance you want, then what difference does it make if there's a bottleneck?

By the way, there will always be a bottleneck. If you upgrade component A, now component B is the bottleneck. If you upgrade component B, now component C is the bottleneck. If you keep upgrading things, eventually component A will be the bottleneck again.

 

[Bob125484]

Download MSI Afterburner or use window task manager to check CPU/GPU/RAM usage. With your current system, I don't think you need upgrade.

 

[Trafalgar747]

It depends. I doubt you it has anything to do with bottlenecking. The i7 4970k is still a powerful processor when overclocked. The i7 8700k will likely give you better frames though. It all depends if its worth it to you. You'd have to buy a new RAM and say goodbye to that 32gb of ram you got there.

You need to ask your self if you want to spend $800-900 on an upgrade. Do you really need it?

 

[James Mason]

It depends. I doubt you it has anything to do with bottlenecking. The i7 4970k is still a powerful processor when overclocked. The i7 8700k will likely give you better frames though. It all depends if its worth it to you. You'd have to buy a new RAM and say goodbye to that 32gb of ram you got there.

You need to ask your self if you want to spend $800-900 on an upgrade. Do you really need it?

And you won't get $800-900 worth of a performance increase out of it either.

 

[Harrison1545]

Hi there. Is it worth upgrading from 4970k to 8700k...i have 32GB RAM, 512 SSD and GTX1080...is my current CPU bottlenecking the video card?....Is it worth it? Thanks

By the sounds of it I doubt it is anything to do with bottlenecking however looking at this http://cpu.userbenchmark.com/Compare/Intel-Core-i7-8700K-vs-Intel-Core-i7-4790K/3937vs2384 The 8700K strongest point seems to be in mutithreaded workloads which makes sense with the higher core count etc so really it probably isn't a worthy upgrade if you just game imo.