i have an i5 4690ik, should i upgrade from my gtx 970 to a gtx 1070

[BlackJesus27]

i own an i5 4690k and a gtx 970 and as of the past year one of the fans has been getting progressively noisier due to a fan bearing, i was considering selling the card on ebay to someone who isnt really bothered by it for maybe like £180 or something and then buying a gtx 1070 but after seeing that the card isnt utilised fully in bf1 with the cpu as the cpu remains around the 90-100% range and the card remains around the 80%-90% mark i can only assume there is a bottleneck, my i5 is oc'd to 4.5 ghz and i was wondering if the improvement would enough in performance in a majority of games to justify purchasing the card. ive seen posts on here with replies saying it doesnt but bottlenecks really annoy me XD (btw gtx 970 is out of warranty date). thankyou for any help guys

 

[atomicWAR]

BF1 is one of a few new games that is bottlenecked by an i5 no matter how fast it is. BF1, watch dogs 2 and ghost recon wildlands will take every thread you have. Some i7 owners are even having issues in multiplayer games with 64 players. I might consider getting a i7 4790K if you can. Basically your already describing a CPU bottleneck in your post which as stated is common in BF1 with i5s.

 

[Zerk2012]

Buy it and enjoy it.
Some games your processor will hold you back some games it will not.
A GTX 1070 is bit of overkill for a single 1080p monitor unless it has 144 refresh rate a lateral move would be buy a GTX 1060 6GB card it has very similar performance to the 970.

 

[atomicWAR]

sorry I got sidetracked and didn't even finish my though in my first post...bed time here. Anyways I would go ahead and get the GTX 1070 now but keep in mind games are getting more well threaded and you will need a new CPU in the nearish future. Sorry this all should have been in my first post.

 

[BlackJesus27]

Buy it and enjoy it.
Some games your processor will hold you back some games it will not.
A GTX 1070 is bit of overkill for a single 1080p monitor unless it has 144 refresh rate a lateral move would be buy a GTX 1060 6GB card it has very similar performance to the 970.

its 144hz

 

[BlackJesus27]

sorry I got sidetracked and didn't even finish my though in my first post...bed time here. Anyways I would go ahead and get the GTX 1070 now but keep in mind games are getting more well threaded and you will need a new CPU in the nearish future. Sorry this all should have been in my first post.

what would be a good cpu upgrade if i need to do so, i think the single cores are strong enough rn as it is as single core performance gives an i7 some competition, bear in mind the cpu is overclocked and most games depend more on single thread performance more so and i imagine they will further into the future even with better threading optimisation, do older gen i7s stack up to newer gen ones? i havent really been interested by new hardware for the past year so im a bit later to the party XD

 

[Zerk2012]

My 4790K runs everything fine. You overclock it up mine is at 4.6 and their nothing worth spending any money on upgrading after that.

 

[BlackJesus27]

My 4790K runs everything fine. You overclock it up mine is at 4.6 and their nothing worth spending any money on upgrading after that.

do you mean 4690K?

 

[Zerk2012]

You asked what would be a good upgrade i7 4790K.
I would just by the video card first and go from their it should run everything just fine.

 

[BlackJesus27]

You asked what would be a good upgrade i7 4790K.
I would just by the video card first and go from their it should run everything just fine.

oh shit yeah XD, would you say that its really a significant difference tho, how long until id have to upgrade, i imagine the i5 4690k at 4.5 would hold up quite well for a while or is the i7 just that good?

 

[atomicWAR]

sorry I got sidetracked and didn't even finish my though in my first post...bed time here. Anyways I would go ahead and get the GTX 1070 now but keep in mind games are getting more well threaded and you will need a new CPU in the nearish future. Sorry this all should have been in my first post.

what would be a good cpu upgrade if i need to do so, i think the single cores are strong enough rn as it is as single core performance gives an i7 some competition, bear in mind the cpu is overclocked and most games depend more on single thread performance more so and i imagine they will further into the future even with better threading optimisation, do older gen i7s stack up to newer gen ones? i havent really been interested by new hardware for the past year so im a bit later to the party XD

As stated an i7 4790k would be a cost effect upgrade but to answer your question in games like BF1 even older cpus like mine do very well because they are well threaded. Having 6C/12T @ 4.2ghz keeps me from bottlenecking where a a brand new i5 would. Also Intels next main strean chips are going to be i5 with 6C/6T and i7s with 6C/12T so if you want a full platform upgrade that would be very solid if AMD solutions don't interest you. I hope that helps.

 

[BlackJesus27]

sorry I got sidetracked and didn't even finish my though in my first post...bed time here. Anyways I would go ahead and get the GTX 1070 now but keep in mind games are getting more well threaded and you will need a new CPU in the nearish future. Sorry this all should have been in my first post.

what would be a good cpu upgrade if i need to do so, i think the single cores are strong enough rn as it is as single core performance gives an i7 some competition, bear in mind the cpu is overclocked and most games depend more on single thread performance more so and i imagine they will further into the future even with better threading optimisation, do older gen i7s stack up to newer gen ones? i havent really been interested by new hardware for the past year so im a bit later to the party XD

As stated an i7 4790k would be a cost effect upgrade but to answer your question in games like BF1 even older cpus like mine do very well because they are well threaded. Having 6C/12T @ 4.2ghz keeps me from bottlenecking where a a brand new i5 would. Also Intels next main strean chips are going to be i5 with 6C/6T and i7s with 6C/12T so if you want a full platform upgrade that would be very solid if AMD solutions don't interest you. I hope that helps.

ahh i think an upgrade may be in order later this year then XD