Would an i7 3770 bottleneck a GTX 1070 or 1080 in late 2018-2019 for gaming?

[Elf_Knight]

I will mainly do gaming and light video editing no streaming. I found a Dell Optiplex prebuilt PC which is cheaper then buying used parts since I'm on a budget. The PC has an i7 3770, 8gb of DDR3 ram, and a 240gb ssd though I might sell that and get a 1TB HDD instead for games. I was thinking of changing the PSU to a 500 watt EVGA PSU because they are quite cheap £40 or so and used GTX 980's only cost £150 which is cheaper then buying a used GTX 1060 3gb for £130-150 used and it has more vram and better specs if I am correct in remembering. So would it be worth it to get that PC purely for gaming and add a gtx 980 and power supply? I might keep the ssd depending on my budget. Here is a link to the PC. It is big enough to accept ATX power supplies and full size graphics cards which I looked for on purpose. If not I might get an SFF optiplex and add a GTX 1050ti low profile and call it a day for budget reasons. Any thoughts? It costs £200 and I assume it is a refurbished PC. Would that be worth it? It would cost another £200 for the GPU and PSU.

Here is the PC: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Dell-OptiPlex-7010-Quad-i7-3770-3-40-GHz-New-240-GB-SSD-8GB-DDR3-Windows-10-WiFi/372262822074?_trkparms=aid%3D555018%26algo%3DPL.SIM%26ao%3D1%26asc%3D20140122125356%26meid%3D4ab9b38f9de9466489a3e58536da6969%26pid%3D100005%26rk%3D3%26rkt%3D12%26sd%3D192686406366%26itm%3D372262822074&_trksid=p2047675.c100005.m1851

 

[jojesa]

A GTX 1070 should be OK with i7 3770, anything above that will be bottlenecked by the CPU.
I suggest you get a RX 580, keep the SSD as the main disk and add 1TB HDD and make sure to get a reliable PSU

Be aware that a use GPU might come without warranty and it could be on its last leg.

What's your budget total budget for the PC and parts?

 

[King_V]

I am going to copy/paste something I've said in numerous other threads to similar questions:

Throw the word "bottleneck" out of your vocabulary, as it is misused to the point of uselessness, and throw out the idea that there is a tight relationship between CPU and GPU as to what goes with what.

More important is:
- What resolution and refresh rate is your monitor?
- Does it have GSync, FreeSync, or neither?
- What games do you play?

And, to a lesser extent: Is your goal to maximize frame rates, play at 60fps with max details, or something else?

 

[Waqas17]

A GTX 1070 should be OK with i7 3770, anything above that will be bottlenecked by the CPU.
I suggest you get a RX 580, keep the SSD as the main disk and add 1TB HDD and make sure to get a reliable PSU

Be aware that a use GPU might come without warranty and it could be on its last leg.

What's your budget total budget for the PC and parts?

You cant just say straight away that anything above 1070 will bottleneck or not.

That i7 is a pure 4c/8t Chip.
In CPU demanding games like Battlefield 1 or Battlefield 5, there might be some high cpu usage, other than that you will be fine for the most part with 60 stable fps.

 

[Ragnarous]

I also vote that it will most likely be fine with something even above 1070. Even tho it's an old chip, it still holds pretty well by today's standards!