I5 2500K with a GTX 970 WIll there be a bottleneck

energy52

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My current specs are
Asus Z68 MB with i5 2500K @ stock 3.3Ghz
8gig ddr3 1600mhz
Corsair TX v2 750W
1080p monitor
GTX 570

I will continue using a 1080p monitor and was wondering if a GTX970 would be a good GPU upgrade
Will the i5 2500K bottleneck the system on 1080p??
 
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GTX 970 is definitely a good upgrade :)
2500k could be a tiny little bit bottleneck to GTX 970 but you will never notice it and ignore it.
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Your PSU is enough too.

Just get the GTX970 :)

Consider also getting an SSD if you do not have one yet :)

DV THE FOX

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I own the same specs here except for an ASUS P8Z68-V PRO GEN3, 1333mhz on the RAM and a AX860W Corsair PSU ,with a BenQ 120hz 1920x1080(p?) monitor with 3D (always disabled)... But i own a 660GTX Ti

Yes,CPU is a 2500K at Stock.

I was thinking of upgrading to the GIGABYTE G1 GAMING GTX 970... Guess i can also ignore the bottleneck?, i would upgrade my MB and CPU mid 2015 when Intel's Skylake releases.

What do you think?
 
2500k on stock will bottleneck GTX970 very minimal, which you can ignore or, if you want, you can OC it a bit and the bottleneck is gone completely.

About the Skylake thing there, I can not say anything about the next gen procs until I see them a bit often and se how they do.
I kept my Q6600 also quite long, I skipped quite a few generations before going directly to i7 3770k.
I saw no meaningful price/performance gain going to those skipped generations since I am not the typed who upgrades his rig often.