Will i5 3550 be bottlenecked with 2 7970 ?

[Swagata]

Will i5 3550 be bottlenecked with 2 7970 on a Asrock Z77 Extreme 6 board ? I'll have 8gb Corsair vengeance and plan to play games on a 3 monitor setup. Is the CPU weak for the 3 monitor setup ?

 

[Abdelrhman Fayyad]

of course not the 7970 is one of the fastest graphics cards in the market and the i5 is one of the best processors for the games

 

[Swagata]

I'm talking about two 7970 crossfired. Is it still fine ?

 

[darth pravus]

I think you mean will the i5 bottleneck the 7970's?

Generally no and if it does then just overclock

 

[unksol]

I would highly suggest getting the 3570K for the extra $10 with that setup so you have overclocking room to play with if needed down the road.

But with a 3 monitor setup you shouldn't see a CPU bottleneck. if you did though your only choice would be to overclock, hence the K CPU. There's not really a better CPU for gaming.

 

[wanderer11]

Just an FYI Microcenter has the 3570k for $169.99 now and I believ their $50 off a Z77 mobo is still going on. If there is one close by you can't beat that deal. To answer your question though no, the 3550 is powerful enough for 7970cf.

 

[Scott_D_Bowen]

On a 3 monitor set-up the GPUs will still be the bottleneck 92% of the time.