will a gtx 1070 bottleneck with i7-2600 non k?

[hasangola420]

Hi< im thinking of buying a gtx 1070. But, I wanted to know that will it get bottlenecked by my i7-2600 non k? if it does then can an i7-3770 non k bottleneck it? my mother board has lga 1155 socket so cant go higher then that. Right now I have a gtx 1060 6gb and it would only cost me 100$ more after selling my gtx 1060 to get 1070. I play mostly AAA games like as origins, shadow of war, fall out 4 etc at 1080p.

 

[kbarizo93]

I would get the 3770 if you could. The 2600 should be fine however it is going to bottleneck the card a bit. You would be golden with the 3770 though.

 

[JalYt_Justin]

Assuming you can get your 1060 sold for full price, then maybe the bump up to 1070 isn't a bad idea.

i7-2600 will not bottleneck a 1070 whatsoever. Maybe only the most CPU intensive of titles could even come close to causing a slight, slight bottleneck. Even the old sandy bridge and ivy bridge Intel CPUs are good for today's games because games still don't use more than 4 cores.

 

[Rdslw]

it will be very close to bottleneck, but I don't think it will. Maybe in few titles, but still you will get ~95%-99% of your 1070

 

[dark_lord69]

It's not a bottleneck. That's just the term that our industry has decided to use for a computer's CPU to GPU balance. (Much to my dismay)

Anyway... The 2600 would be fine depending on the games you play, THAT is the real marker.
The 3770 would definitely be a better option to have a more balanced system with a GTX 1070 so I would highly recommend you upgrade BOTH.
However, you could try upgrade one of the 2 first and see how your frame rate fair in that situation before you upgrade the other component. Looks like overall you'll still benefit more from the GPU upgrade than the CPU upgrade of course both upgraded together would help that much more.

 

[sizzling]

Also an important question is what resolution and Hz is your monitor as this determines your target fps? Aiming for 100+ fps @ 1080p is far more cpu intensive than aiming for 60 fps 1440p.