980Ti and i5 3470 = Bottleneck?

[Matheus_3]

Hi guys! So, i have a i5 3470 paired with a GA-Z77M-D3H and 16gb of RAM, and im planning to buy a gtx 980ti(evga with backplate), and i'd like to know if the 980ti will be bottlenecked by my i5 3470. Im playing on a 1080p 144hz monitor, and I'll play games like BF4, Skyrim, League of Legends, CS:GO, The Witcher 3, Assassin's Creed, GTA V, and future games.

I'd like to know if its necessary a CPU upgrade now, because I was planning to upgrade it next year(i'm brazilian and prices here are terrible, if I would upgrade my CPU now, i'd need to buy used CPU's. Also, one more thing, if I would upgrade now, would my GA-Z77M-D3H handle a I5 4670K overclocked? Or would I need to change my MOBO aswell?)

Thanks!

 

[timbo1130]

Hi guys! So, i have a i5 3470 paired with a GA-Z77M-D3H and 16gb of RAM, and im planning to buy a gtx 980ti(evga with backplate), and i'd like to know if the 980ti will be bottlenecked by my i5 3470. Im playing on a 1080p 144hz monitor, and I'll play games like BF4, Skyrim, League of Legends, CS:GO, The Witcher 3, Assassin's Creed, GTA V, and future games.

I'd like to know if its necessary a CPU upgrade now, because I was planning to upgrade it next year(i'm brazilian and prices here are terrible, if I would upgrade my CPU now, i'd need to buy used CPU's. Also, one more thing, if I would upgrade now, would my GA-Z77M-D3H handle a I5 4670K overclocked? Or would I need to change my MOBO aswell?)

Thanks!

I have a 980ti g1 gaming. I run it with an i7 2600k and 16gb of ddr3 running at 2133. I do have my cpu overclocked to 4.4 ghz and i do have an i7 not the i5 but ivybridge has a 10 to 15 percent ipc advantage over sandy bridge. short story is you will be fine. even at stock cpu clocks your ivybridge i5 will handle a single video card just fine even the all powerful 980ti. you may see a very small reduction in performance of less than 10% on cpu demanding games compared to an i7 6700k or i7 5820k but compared to a stock clock i5 of haswell or skylake theres almost no way you would ever see the difference. I say get trhe card if you want it and can afford it and dont worry about you processor its good enough for the time being.

This is purely my opinion.

 

[Eximo]

Should be fine. PCIe 3.0 and it is a decent high end CPU.

Z77 board can't take anything faster then what you have other then the i5-3570k or i7-3770k. LGA1155 boards are not compatible with LGA1150 (4th and 5th gen CPUs) or LGA1151 6th gen CPUs.

 

[timbo1130]

oh and z77 is not compatible with haswell chips such as the i5 4670k.