I5-9600k with gtx 1060 6gb bottleneck?

[rikus2201]

I fried my 7 years old mobo couple days ago and when searching new cpu + mobo i found that the price of i5-9600k is only 10€ higher than i5-8600k. I was left thinking is the bottleneck too high for 1060. http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/forum/id-3680077/ultimate-bottlenecking-guide-rev.html from this thread i noticed that Gtx 1060 doesn't even make bottleneck with i5-8600k. Didn't include i5-9600k tho :/. But many people says that i5-8600k is bottlenecking Gtx 1060.

By that thread i'm still strongly concidering going with i5-9600k. I have no experience yet with modern cpus i skipped Haswell and Ivy-Bridge and have no experience with Coffee lake either.

What's your opinion is it no brainer to go with it?


And could i reduce bottleneck to be within 60fps in Ultra (most AAA games)with gpu tweaking. I'm not beginner to tweaking hardware (my I5-2500k was running 7 years with 4.8Ghz).

 

[Mark_maloney]

That's a pretty good system, you shouldn't notice a real bottle neck. If anything you could up the Graphics card to a 1070 but honestly I wouldn't personally. Check the kind of games you are playing, are they more CPU based? GPU based? Are you looking to record or stream? Video/Photo editing? It depends on the use case.

For gaming that's quite a nice combo though

Good luck man, let me know if you need anymore help!

 

[salamelyoussef0146]

i have a 1070 with 8600k, and my gpu is a bottleneck, allthough if its only 10£ more, then definitely buy it, no questions there.
The GPU should be fine for 1080p gaming, but not for 2k?
Im pretending that its the 6 gig model

 

[King_V]

It is far more dependent on your monitor's resolution and refresh rate than on your CPU.

If you are running 1920x1080 @ 60Hz, the GTX 1060 is just fine.

 

[geofelt]

There is no such thing as "bottlenecking"
If, by that, you mean that upgrading a cpu or graphics card can
somehow lower your performance or FPS.
A better term might be limiting factor.
That is where adding more cpu or gpu becomes increasingly
less effective.

If your games are mmo, strategy or sims, they will benefit from the superior single thread performance of the 9600K.

I5-9600K is essentially a i5-8600K with a soldered heat spreader meaning that it will Overclock better than 8600K.
You are likely to get near 5.0 with a decent air cooler.

For the minimal price difference, the 9600K is definitely worth it.
You also might want to buy a Z390 based motherboard even though Z370 may be supported.
Z390 boards will have bewtter voltage regulation for overclocking.

 

[rikus2201]

There is no such thing as "bottlenecking"
If, by that, you mean that upgrading a cpu or graphics card can
somehow lower your performance or FPS.
A better term might be limiting factor.
That is where adding more cpu or gpu becomes increasingly
less effective.

If your games are mmo, strategy or sims, they will benefit from the superior single thread performance of the 9600K.

I5-9600K is essentially a i5-8600K with a soldered heat spreader meaning that it will Overclock better than 8600K.
You are likely to get near 5.0 with a decent air cooler.

For the minimal price difference, the 9600K is definitely worth it.
You also might want to buy a Z390 based motherboard even though Z370 may be supported.
Z390 boards will have bewtter voltage regulation for overclocking.

I have H80i v1 from my old computer so that will do the cooling. (Should go with LGA 1151)

And yeah i was going with Asus rog Z390-F strix with 16gb 3200mhz ram.

 

[rikus2201]

That's a pretty good system, you shouldn't notice a real bottle neck. If anything you could up the Graphics card to a 1070 but honestly I wouldn't personally. Check the kind of games you are playing, are they more CPU based? GPU based? Are you looking to record or stream? Video/Photo editing? It depends on the use case.

For gaming that's quite a nice combo though

Good luck man, let me know if you need anymore help!

Just for gaming.
Games like siege, elite, pubg, civillization (that's good with better cpu i guess) fps games in general.

 

[geofelt]

Your plans are fine.

If you have a H80I, go ahead and use it.
It should do the job, your new motherboard is lga1151 also.
I am not a supporter of liquid cooling when a good air cooler will do the job.