GTX 1060 6gb bottleneck

[razorst3]

Current rig:
cpu: i5 750
psu: corsair TX 850
mobo: gigabyte p55 ud3l
ram: 8gb corsair
ssd: samsung evo 850
gpu: xfx hd 6950 1gb
(i know... my mobo has only sata2 port but works 10x better than samsung hdd I previously had)

Question: If i upgrade to gtx 1060 6gb now (or even gtx 1070) is there any chanse my gpu decays in performance / gets damaged because of cpu bottleneck until I upgrade the rest of my pc.

 

[PC Tailor]

Wow that's a lot of PSU for not a lot of power usage...

The GTX 1060 is generally ok with an i5 750, however I suspect you'll see some bottlenecking on more CPU intensive applications. It should just be fine, but your CPU will ultimately be your limiting factor. Especially considering its age.

Whilst bottlenecking is totally dependant on the application, the GTX 1070 IMO is too far a stretch for the current CPU. But that also depends on how much you want to upgrade in the future, you can upgrade to a 1070 now, and simply upgrade your other components later, there's no problem with that, and will cause no issue.

And for the record, bottlenecking does not in any way damage your components or cause 'decay', a bottleneck effectively means that one component is stopping another component from utilising it's full capability. Every PC has a bottleneck, and that bottleneck fluctuates depending on the application.

For modern day gaming, you may also want to potentially consider doubling up on your RAM, some of the latest titles are becoming more RAM demanding, but 16GB is still more than you'll ever need.

 

[razorst3]

Wow that's a lot of PSU for not a lot of power usage...

The GTX 1060 is generally ok with an i5 750, however I suspect you'll see some bottlenecking on more CPU intensive applications. It should just be fine, but your CPU will ultimately be your limiting factor. Especially considering its age.

Whilst bottlenecking is totally dependant on the application, the GTX 1070 IMO is too far a stretch for the current CPU. But that also depends on how much you want to upgrade in the future, you can upgrade to a 1070 now, and simply upgrade your other components later, there's no problem with that, and will cause no issue.

And for the record, bottlenecking does not in any way damage your components or cause 'decay', a bottleneck effectively means that one component is stopping another component from utilising it's full capability. Every PC has a bottleneck, and that bottleneck fluctuates depending on the application.

For modern day gaming, you may also want to potentially consider doubling up on your RAM, some of the latest titles are becoming more RAM demanding, but 16GB is still more than you'll ever need.

Thanks for your answer, my main concerns are gone now as you explained it really well for newbie like me.

About the PSU, i made a big mistake while building this pc and bought corsair cx series (with i think 450 watts) which made my pc shut off randomly few times a day. Still don't know if it was broken or not strong enough but thats when i decided to never again try and save money on psu.