Is the I7-4770 Good enough for gaming at 2017?

[Monobovo01]

I've been recently looking into buying a PC and saw a PC with an I7-4770 for fairly cheap. I've been thinking of adding a GTX 1070 to it but not sure if it will bottleneck it...

Would appreciate any opinions.

 

[Supahos]

It's more than capable

 

[Dunlop0078]

A 4770 should do just fine paired with a 1070.

 

[Monobovo01]

It's more than capable

Would it do fine even in CPU intensive games? and how long do you think it would last before i would need to replace it?

 

[Supahos]

No way to answer this specificly. It'll be viable for quite a while. It'll soon be basically an i5, but it'll still be a while before games will need anywhere near that strong of a cpu to run well.

 

[Dunlop0078]

If you have a 1080p 144hz monitor, you may see some cpu bottlnecking in cpu intensive titles. However I doubt it would severely bottleneck a 1070 in anything. At 1440p+ I doubt it will bottleneck at all. Here is watch dogs 2 a very cpu heavy game at 1080p with a gtx 1080, I would say this is worst case scenario for cpu bottlenecking and they are using a more powerful gpu which will show more of a cpu bottleneck. The 4770 would be in between the 2600k and the 4790k.

 

[Monobovo01]

If you have a 1080p 144hz monitor, you may see some cpu bottlnecking in cpu intensive titles. However I doubt it would severely bottleneck a 1070 in anything. At 1440p+ I doubt it will bottleneck at all. Here is watch dogs 2 a very cpu heavy game at 1080p with a gtx 1080, I would say this is worst case scenario for cpu bottlenecking and they are using a more powerful gpu which will show more of a cpu bottleneck.

Thanks for the info, I think i'm gonna go for the 4770 as i am buying the whole PC for fairly cheap (Around 750$) only thing i'm worried about is having to get a new CPU and motherboard in 1/2 years... And i don't know much about OC or specifically on overclocking a none K version CPU So i don't know if i would be able to Overclock it in a year or 2 to keep it's performance at high

 

[Supahos]

No you can't really oc that processor. If you have a z87/97 board you can. Go 2/300 mhz above turbo boost usually, I forget exactly what you could do with a 4770

 

[Dunlop0078]

What resolution are you playing at? At 1440p+ I bet the 4770 will last the usable life of that 1070 without bottlenecking, maybe 2 years. Next time you feel the need to upgrade the GPU I would probably look into a cpu upgrade as well.

 

[Corwin65]

What exactly are you getting for that $750?

 

[Guido Pa]

Hi,

I have a i7 4770 and and msi gtx 1070 GPU with 24 DDR3 Ram and i can play all games, even the Withcher 3 easy.
Some games like different assassin's creed, dying light, watch dogs and far cry 3 use a lot of cpu but it works.
GTA V plays really well, Titan fall 2 plays also very easy.

Greetz,
Guido