i5-3570k ok for 1440p gaming

[carsoncb056]

I recently bought a 1440p 165hz gsync monitor and am waiting on my gtx 1070. I currently have an i5-3570k overclocked to 4.5ghz and I'm wondering if I will see any issues with the cpu usage, or if I need to upgrade. What are your thoughts?

 

[GamingEnthusiast420]

It will run most games. Don't expect 60fps on all, but DOOM and BF1 will reach it fairly easily.

 

[elbert]

It should be fine. Other than higher clocks there hasn't been any great improvement in Intels per core performance as of late. Long as you have atleast 16GB's of RAM it should work great.

 

[junkeymonkey]

should be fine plenty of guys running older intel platforms and still rocking

mind you its still not a i7- 7700k but you should not be hurting that bad if any at all

 

[10tacle]

FYI at monitor resolutions above 1080p, the less your CPU speed matters. I have done a *lot* of benchmark tests with my 4690K and 970 SLI rig. Crysis trilogy, Far Cray 3-4, Witcher 3, BF3-4, Fallout 4, Project Cars, DiRT Rally, Grid Autosport. Probably a few others I can't think of right now. I noticed very little FPS improvement when I ran my CPU at core stock speed 3.5GHz and overclocked to 4.7GHz. The biggest FPS improvement was in Autosport of about 10%. Just not enough to warrant the increased power and heat use for me, especially in the warm months.

Now for video editing, that's a different story. I cut my rendering time by 35% in Sony Vegas Studio running at 4.7GHz using the CPU for rendering. What normally took ten minutes reduced to six and a half minutes. That was only for a test however as it's better optimized to run off the GPU for rendering.

 

[Ecky]

CPU speed and resolution are independent of each other. If you want 100fps at 640x480, or 100fps at 4k, it takes exactly the same amount of CPU power.

A 3570K @ 4.5 is still a decent enough CPU. It just about matches a stock i5 7500, which is clocked ~700mhz lower. That being said, you're not going to be getting anywhere near 165fps in any demanding titles, and probably not even a steady 60 in some. As long as you're not too picky it should be fine, but if you're looking to get higher framerates, you really want a modern i7.

 

[carsoncb056]

What is the best program to monitor cpu/gpu usage in games in order to see what the bottleneck in games may be?

 

[Ecky]

Task manager works alright for this. MSI Afterburner can monitor CPU usage, too, and provide graphs if that's more useful to you. Your CPU can still be bottlenecking if it isn't at 100%, because all games have a master thread, and sometimes the other threads have to wait on it, so you may find that some of your cores are well below fully utilized.

 

[10tacle]

I use afterburner for exactly that. Some games use more cores than others and the spikes are all over the place but the overall trend can be seen in a saved log file or the on screen graph in the tool. In an extended gaming session of say 30 minutes, it's easy to see if you have a CPU or GPU bottleneck. I find it also interesting to see which games respond to the CPU better than others.

 

[junkeymonkey]

as far a just to monitor use hwinfo 64

http://imgur.com/7TUl4XA

or [I don't think they allow it with the latest firestrike to use the stress test ??]

http://imgur.com/BualSW7

like from this you see unsed single card use there's not much gain between a i5 6600 and a 3570

''Number of GPUs = ''1''

http://www.3dmark.com/search#/?mode=advanced&url=/proxycon/ajax/search/cpugpu/fs/P/2017/1090/500000?minScore=0&cpuName=Intel Core i5-6600 Processor&gpuName=NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070

http://www.3dmark.com/search#/?mode=advanced&url=/proxycon/ajax/search/cpugpu/fs/P/1553/1090/500000?minScore=0&cpuName=Intel Core i5-3570&gpuName=NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070

even more demanding time spy DX12 test not much to go buy a skylake or kaby just run some good oc on your cpu and card and your still in the good and hanging with the big boys with any i5

[''Number of GPUs = ''1'' ]
http://www.3dmark.com/search#/?mode=advanced&url=/proxycon/ajax/search/cpugpu/spy/P/2017/1090/500000?minScore=0&cpuName=Intel Core i5-6600 Processor&gpuName=NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070

http://www.3dmark.com/search#/?mode=advanced&url=/proxycon/ajax/search/cpugpu/spy/P/1553/1090/500000?minScore=0&cpuName=Intel Core i5-3570&gpuName=NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070

firestrike ultra [4K] still little to nothing ??? [ ''Number of GPUs = ''1'' ]

http://www.3dmark.com/search#/?mode=advanced&url=/proxycon/ajax/search/cpugpu/fs/R/2017/1090/500000?minScore=0&cpuName=Intel Core i5-6600 Processor&gpuName=NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070

http://www.3dmark.com/search#/?mode=advanced&url=/proxycon/ajax/search/cpugpu/fs/R/1553/1090/4732?minScore=0&cpuName=Intel Core i5-3570&gpuName=NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070

like elbert said its about Intels ''tick tock '' roadmap you may gain a bit but nothing substantial .

then you got a k cpu that goes another long way I used non k cpu to show GPU performance on the CPU's with out cpu overclocking affecting things

with intel unless your system just dies theres not much need to upgrade so quickly

 

[carsoncb056]

Thanks for the help! It sounds like my cpu is fine as is and I will use the msi afterburner to see if I can see any bottlenecks once I get my gpu.