Bottlenecking with an i5 8400 question

[ronv1125]

So the CPU im planning to get is i5 8400, after reading alot of reviews
Since alot of people also say it's a cpu game changer and an i7 is no longer really needed for gaming.
It seems many people pair this cpu with an gtx1060,
but what if i pair it with gtx 1070 or gtx 1080?
Will there be any bottlenecking?

My inital plan was to get just a gtx1060,
But i really got intrested into the 144Hz thing and wanna get the asus VG248QE
So i probably need more power?

 

[ArchitSahu]

No, it will not bottleneck to a great extent. It'll be good.

 

[maxalge]

So the CPU im planning to get is i5 8400, after reading alot of reviews
Since alot of people also say it's a cpu game changer and an i7 is no longer really needed for gaming.
It seems many people pair this cpu with an gtx1060,
but what if i pair it with gtx 1070 or gtx 1080?
Will there be any bottlenecking?

My inital plan was to get just a gtx1060,
But i really got intrested into the 144Hz thing and wanna get the asus VG248QE
So i probably need more power?

set it to 4ghz in the bios and play, it can easily keep up with any gpu

 

[failboat]

Anything with around 4 cores and a single thread over 1600 or so on here won't bottleneck you for most games on builds under $2k.
Certain games like RTS use a lot more CPU than other games.

coffee lake has pretty high turbo across the board. it's single thread is exceptional. it will be fine with any of those.

https://www.cpubenchmark.net/singleThread.html