Destiny 2 4K 970 to 1080?

[tysonc]

Upgrading from a GTX 970 to a 1080.

The rest of the system specs are below:

Intel i5-6500
GIGABYTE G1 Gaming GA-Z170X
EVGA SuperNOVA 650 P2
CORSAIR Vengeance LPX 16GB 3000
Samsung 850 EVO 500GB
MSI GeForce GTX 970 GAMING 4G

My question is, do I NEED a CPU upgrade. An i7 isn't COMPLETELY out of the budget. But with a monitor upgrade and a new GPU, it'd be tight. So, I'm curious if I can hold off for now on the i7 and run Destiny 2 (really the only "intense" game i'll play... rocket league, LOL and POE being my other titles) at 4K at a reasonable frame rate. I don't need OMG ULTRA 4K LOCKED 60FPS. But at a consistent playable frame rate?

I've watched videos, I've checked benchmarks, but I wanted to come here and see if anyone had beta experience with a similar setup.

 

[MrN1ce9uy]

Your i5-6500 should be enough at 4K to keep your GTX 1080 maxed out performing all it can do. Typically speaking the higher the resolution is, the less of a CPU you need; because at higher resolutions more of the workload is put on to the GPU, which works at full capacity to output a lower framerate than at lower resolutions.

At 4K your GTX 1080 will be your limiting factor, not your i5-6500.

 

[Kasper Jorgensen]

You should get a GTX 1080 TI for 4K gaming.

 

[tysonc]

So a GTX 1080Ti should safely handle 4K at aroudn 60 fps. So, next question, go for the Ti and 4K? Or go 1440 144hz?

 

[Kasper Jorgensen]

Unless you play competitive I would go for 4k instead of 144Hz

 

[tysonc]

Unless you play competitive I would go for 4k instead of 144Hz

Won't ever play competitive that "matters" like ladders or ranked or anything. Mostly do pvp stuff with friends just for fun. So, probably 4k