Will i5 6400 Bottleneck GTX 980 Ti??

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So you want to spend an extra $350 on a GPU because 1 game requires demanding graphics when 98% will be just fine at 1080p with a 970. And hes right most of those optional settings are so minimal it doesnt even matter.
 
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I think the chaps reasoning can be summed up in his original question 'Will i5 6400 Bottleneck GTX 980 Ti??'

Its not even a question. If he thinks that intels latest i5 cpu generation will be a bottleneck for a gpu like the 980ti, then he's obviously got sh*t for brains. :)

He wants to spend $$$ more on a 980ti, when he can by a 970 or 980 (for 1080p gaming not 4k gaming) instead of spending the extra $$$ on a better i5 or even i7 cpu.
 
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Just get a 4k monitor, they are not that much more tham 2ks at the moment. you can play your games at 2k or 4k with a 980ti and watch youtube and netfix at 4k.

 
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My option is 144hz is marketing. I may be wrong but 144hz means that the display can push 144 frames per second if required. Seeing that no gpu at the moment (unless you probably run two titan x's, cost $$$$$$) was push this amount of FSP. So why get a monitor than can do 144hz when your gpu will never do that?? Even if your gpu can do 70 FSP, it not going to make your gaming any better than a 60hz monitor. If you are sh*t at gaming, 144hz will not change that. If your gpu does 70 FSP, you will never drop a frame on a 60hz monitor. Plus 144hz monitors are usually TN based panels sold at IPS based prices. TN panels are worse than IPS picture quality wise. So again i believe its all marketing.

In the uk a dell 27inch 2k monitor cost £370, whilst the dell 27inch IPS 60hz 4k monitor costs £460. You can even get a good 4k TN panel monitor for £380. Again 4k gives you the flexibility to watch movies and video at 4k, whilst playing games at 2k.You will never be able watch movie content at 4k (i.e. netflix/amazon prime) only 1080p on a 2k panel. So whats the point of 2k panels at the moment.
 
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Isn't 144Hz better for CS GO? And even I didn't get 144fps and got like 80, 90 or 100fps wouldn't the monitor still take advantage of those extra frames with no screen tearing?
 
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It's not the max framerate, it's the current framerate.
If you set the 144Hz panel to 60Hz, 80Hz will still cause tearing.
Why don't you just get 60Hz, as the others are saying? I never noticed above 60Hz and frankly I don't think that much refresh rate is needed.
 
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Some of the responses in this thread were just so dumb and insulting, that I had to respond even though it's months old.

Its justified asking whether a lowly i5 will bottleneck one of the cream of the crop gpus. Even though its latest generation skylake, its pretty similar to a 4th gen 4440, they've more so focused on power consumption and what not and the 6400 has fairly low core clocks. It perhaps wouldnt bottleneck the 980ti, perhaps, but i dont think its the ideal CPU to pair with a 980ti. Better off spending a bit extra and getting one of the higher end i5's particularly the K which are gonna have much higher core clocks and provide better performance without the risk of a bottleneck. The i5 6400 is only an option Id choose if i was seriously penny pinching, and if a 980ti is within reach, spend that little bit extra and get a premium
system, not a cheapass system with a great graphics card.

And whoever is saying go for a 60hz monitor... seriously get off the crack its 2016.

 
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Game performance can also be smooth at 1080p with a gtx 680 and i5 2500k. But yes it definately matters as we pay a premium price for high end gear to yield maximum and amazing results.. not just smooth. An i5 6400 cpu compared to a k version even the 4690k or an i7 could potentially yield over 20% performance gains. The 2.7ghz on that 6400 is quite low and apart from inverse hyperthreading and a few other instruction sets the 6th gen aint that special over latter gens, plus also turbo boost in a game aint gonna wrk well due to core utilisation as most games are utilising 4 cores miminimising turbo boost potential.

Of course a 980ti with most cpus will be smooth but no point buying the 980ti if you just want smooth.

 
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On another thread i posted 3dmark11 firestrike scores for i5 6400 with a gtx 980 and an i7 6700 with a gtx 970... go look at rankings in firestrike.. benchmarks often dont simulate real world experience precisely, but i reiterate that 2.7ghz will hold back a 980ti and even a 980. Id say a 970 is where the performance starts to weign and the performance curve starts to flatten out with that cpu.
 
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Id also like to state in the past 5 odd years ago a bottleneck could potentially cause errors and instability... an analogy would be like screen tearing.. where the gpu would be calculating too fast and attempting to force too much through to the cpu and other components causing breaks in the flow of information and circuitry, these days components are much more intelligent so the gpu will throttle much more efficiently not effectively causing any disruption or instability, but just effecting the maximum thoroughput that could potentially be achieved.
 
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