i5-2300 bottlenecking a 980ti

[the noob]

planning a upgrade and wonder if my i5-2300 will bottleneck a 980ti or the new fury card coming out on 16th from amd.I have been thinking about selling my 2300 and buying a 4460 but confused whether should i just get a better motherboard and get another gtx 970 to sli with my current 970.
i Wonder if my 2300 will bottleneck these cards.
Considering the 2300 is basically a i7 920 which bottlenecks a 780 it should,but my current 970 isnt bottleneck at all.

WHat should i do.
1.Get a better board since sandy bridge cpu's are still strong.
2. Sell the 2300 and get a 4460 for better compatibility with pascal cards due Q2 16.

 

[Swordkd]

No. Any Sandy Bridge i5 or later isn't going to bottleneck a single Gpu. Whether or not the better performance from a 4460 is worth it for you to upgrade is up to you, but I honestly wouldn't recommend it. If you are thinking you want to upgrade however, wait for Skylake and the ddr4 motherboards. I don't see a good reason to upgrade to a ddr3 chipset at this point in time if you've already got something decent.

 

[InvalidError]

As Sword said, the i5-2300 should still be decent for most current games. If you are going to upgrade the CPU and motherboard, I would wait for Skylake which is only a few months further off in the future now.

 

[JamesSneed]

The short answer is yes but not enough that it matters most of the time. You can look at reviews there are a few games that are very CPU intense but that is a pretty short list with current games.

You must realize that some component be it a CPU, GPU, memory, or hard drive / SSD will cause a bottleneck. Every system has a bottleneck and the moment you make that fast enough then something else will be a bottleneck. Think of like if they raised the speed limit on the highway to 1000 miles per hour then all cars max speed are now the bottle neck not the speed limit. The point being if your frame rates are fine then don't worry about anymore than if you worried about trying to go 1000mph on the highway as at a certain point your going fast enough.

 

[Groveling_Wyrm]

I would be more worried about your hard drive situation. Your processor is fine, your video card is fine, but with the combination of that, it can cripple a normal physical hard drive with so much data draw, unless you have a newer hard drive, or an SSD drive.

And as the previous posters have already stated, I agree...wait to upgrade if you are going to do that.

 

[filippi]

I think the best upgrade path for you would be Skylake + 970 SLI.

You do have a very good gaming rig already so wait 3 months cannot hurt you a lot 😀

 

[the noob]

Yes i did consider waiting for skylake,but since DDR4 prices wont come down in my country as they would in the us or eu I considered the 4460 and since ipc gains wont be more than 10% over haswell in skylake i considered it

 

[InvalidError]

Skylake is supposed to support BOTH DDR3 and DDR4. People who do not want to bother with the high DDR4 prices will be able to buy a motherboard that implements DDR3 slots and use DDR3 instead.

 

[Sergeant_Sneaky]

My i5 2320 bottlenecked my GTX 970 in BF4, it caused fps dips into the low 50s, upgraded to a 4690k and the fps doesn't dip below 87 or so and that's very rare and caused by the gpu in certain parts of certain maps. It will bottleneck the 980ti but only in CPU intensive games.

 

[the noob]

Skylake is supposed to support BOTH DDR3 and DDR4. People who do not want to bother with the high DDR4 prices will be able to buy a motherboard that implements DDR3 slots and use DDR3 instead.

My i5 2320 bottlenecked my GTX 970 in BF4, it caused fps dips into the low 50s, upgraded to a 4690k and the fps doesn't dip below 87 or so and that's very rare and caused by the gpu in certain parts of certain maps. It will bottleneck the 980ti but only in CPU intensive games.

Yup gonna wait for skylake.Problem with ddr3 is other than two biostar boards no other skylake based ddr3 board has been launched

 

[InvalidError]

Yup gonna wait for skylake.Problem with ddr3 is other than two biostar boards no other skylake based ddr3 board has been launched

What is the point of worrying about which products have been "launched" (more like announced/unveiled) when the CPU they are intended for is still 3-4 months in the future? There will be 100+ more Skylake motherboards launched (for real) when the CPU launches.

 

[Mesut Ozil]

Yup gonna wait for skylake.Problem with ddr3 is other than two biostar boards no other skylake based ddr3 board has been launched

What is the point of worrying about which products have been "launched" (more like announced/unveiled) when the CPU they are intended for is still 3-4 months in the future? There will be 100+ more Skylake motherboards launched (for real) when the CPU launches.

hey mate ur profile is bloody impressive so i just have to seize the moment and ask u if my i5-3450 will bottleneck 980ti i know it's kinda the same question as the topic but every time i ask someone comes with different answer thanks in advance

 

[InvalidError]

hey mate ur profile is bloody impressive so i just have to seize the moment and ask u if my i5-3450 will bottleneck 980ti i know it's kinda the same question as the topic but every time i ask someone comes with different answer thanks in advance

Same question, pretty much the same answer: should still be perfectly fine for most games. There are some exceptional CPU hogs like BF4 on 64-players maps but that is all they are, exceptions, maybe 1% of games released in the past two years.