Good CPU to pair with 1080 ti?

[Rodson]

My friend is selling me a GTX 1080 ti for a nice price. He even let me try it in my rig.

My rig is an
i5 4690k OC'd to 4.4 ghz.
MSI Z97 Gaming 5 Mobo
16 gb RAM
MSI R9 390 8 gb (replaced with a GTX 1080 ti)
Monitor is 1440p 144hz

I expected the gpu to get bottlenecked. Which it did. I noticed that for a handful of games some stuttering and FPS below 60. Games like Monstet Hunter World, Ghost Recon Wildlands, and GTA V to name some. I also noticed that atmost of the time the CPU would be 100% load while the GPU wouldn't.

I'm wondering what would be a nice CPU to pair with the 1080 ti. Would it be worth still staying with a Haswell? Or should I completely upgrade including the mobo.

Thanks

 

[jankerson]

I would say an i5 8600K with a good Z370 MB would be good, you would also need DDR4 Memory.

 

[mjbn1977]

Yepp, get yourself a nice Coffee Lake CPU. 8600K is problably the best value. If you have the cash go for the 8700K. Z370 boards are not so expensive anymore and you can get real good air coolers for $50 to $70 which will cool those CPUs good and silently. Just don't expect overclocking to 5GHz. My is 8700k runs super silent at 4.8GHz on all cores with a DarkRock air cooler.

I have the opposite problem right now. I have a video card bottle neck since I am still using my GTX 970 (waiting for RTX2080) with my 8700k. The video card is always at 100% and the 8700k is never going over 15%...LOL

 

[Rodson]

Yepp, get yourself a nice Coffee Lake CPU. 8600K is problably the best value. If you have the cash go for the 8700K. Z370 boards are not so expensive anymore and you can get real good air coolers for $50 to $70 which will cool those CPUs good and silently. Just don't expect overclocking to 5GHz. My is 8700k runs super silent at 4.8GHz on all cores with a DarkRock air cooler.

I have the opposite problem right now. I have a video card bottle neck since I am still using my GTX 970 (waiting for RTX2080) with my 8700k. The video card is always at 100% and the 8700k is never going over 15%...LOL

Loool hopefully the RTX is worth the price when it comes out.
So you don't think sticking with Haswell is worth it? I should just upgrade to Coffee lake. It does sound good for the long run. I just hope I don't need to purchase a new cooler for the CPU. Not sure if you know, but do you know if the H100i GTX is compatible with the Coffee Lake Socket?

 

[mjbn1977]

Yepp, get yourself a nice Coffee Lake CPU. 8600K is problably the best value. If you have the cash go for the 8700K. Z370 boards are not so expensive anymore and you can get real good air coolers for $50 to $70 which will cool those CPUs good and silently. Just don't expect overclocking to 5GHz. My is 8700k runs super silent at 4.8GHz on all cores with a DarkRock air cooler.

I have the opposite problem right now. I have a video card bottle neck since I am still using my GTX 970 (waiting for RTX2080) with my 8700k. The video card is always at 100% and the 8700k is never going over 15%...LOL

Loool hopefully the RTX is worth the price when it comes out.
So you don't think sticking with Haswell is worth it? I should just upgrade to Coffee lake. It does sound good for the long run. I just hope I don't need to purchase a new cooler for the CPU. Not sure if you know, but do you know if the H100i GTX is compatible with the Coffee Lake Socket?

In regards to RTX pricing: Why wouldn't it? First, I always skip one generation of Video cards and I really need one. They RTX20XX generation will be definitely faster than the GTX10xx series, even without Tensor and RTX cores. The questions is only, will it be 20%, 30% or even 50%? I think it will end up to be about 30% and that was to be expected. Yes, they have a steep price, maybe justified, maybe not. But hell has to freeze over before I spend $500 to $600 on a 2 year old graphic card series. I rather pay $200 more, have a faster card, that even has cutting edge technology (even if it might not be ready to be fully implemented). I might have to spend $850 for a RTX2080 or maybe $600 for a RTX2070, but that is what it is. But if I would own a GTX1080 or 1070, I would definitely skip the new RTX generation.

In regards to CPU choice: Yes, the coffee lake choice would be a plattform that would serve your many years without problems. You will not run in CPU bottlenecks for at least 4 years. I usually built a system around a processor that would serve me about 5 years. In that time I usually use 2 or 3 different video card generations in that system.