980 Ti - i5-4590 Doubt

Duartico

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I'm going to build a mITX system soon, and I don't want to go with a unlocked CPU. So I need to know if the Gigabyte G1 980 Ti would be bottlenecked by a 4590 when overcloked.
 
I'm going to build a mITX system soon, and I don't want to go with a unlocked CPU. So I need to know if the Gigabyte G1 980 Ti would be bottlenecked by a 4590 when overcloked.

Any CPU above the first true quad core i5 will only offer negligible gains in FPS terms with a single high-end card. For gaming the i5-4440/4460 are probably optimal from a cost perspective.

JR
 
Yeah that chip is not going to hold the 980 Ti back. Obviously your FPS might be slightly higher with a CPU overclock, but that only has to do with games using CPU power, in either case your graphics card will run at its full capacity.
 
Your ideal gaming MHZ is between 4.2ghz and 4.8, depending on how lucky you are.

I feel that 3.7ghz max turbo is a little on the low side and you may see your GPU being held back a little. It all depends on the game and how it's coded really.

Personally I would not buy a I5 any way. You can always get the equivalent Xeon for less money. There's one set up like the I7 for just a little more, I would go with that.
 
Your ideal gaming MHZ is between 4.2ghz and 4.8, depending on how lucky you are.

I feel that 3.7ghz max turbo is a little on the low side and you may see your GPU being held back a little. It all depends on the game and how it's coded really.

Personally I would not buy a I5 any way. You can always get the equivalent Xeon for less money. There's one set up like the I7 for just a little more, I would go with that.

Have to disagree there mate. As said with a higher clock he might reach better performance, but that has nothing to do with the GPU not being able to work at 100% at a lower core clock on the CPU. All the extra performance comes from the CPU itself which does not affect the GPU.

Xeons generally feature a (slightly) different instruction set and most of the time also a lower core clock/ boost clock (as they are designed to run 24/7 instead of the Core i series). For gaming, Hyperthreading does not add much and you'll see that sometimes the i5 is even faster in games due to a slightly higher core clock/ boost clock.

If they're clocked the same, the performance won't really differ a lot unless you really play a game that desperately uses the Hyperthreaded cores. That all depends on the games OP plays though, so still not a bad shout :)
 
Personally I would not buy a I5 any way. You can always get the equivalent Xeon for less money. There's one set up like the I7 for just a little more, I would go with that.

i5-4460 - £146.74
E3-1220 v3 - £159.10

Equivalent Xeon's definitely aren't always cheaper, paying a premium to not have integrated graphics seems a little daft, given it could a useful feature one day.

There definitely isn't any 4.2GHz Xeons and even if there was the returns are pathetic after the tiny step up to the i5. I don't understand how anyone could justify the leap to an i7 for gaming alone.

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JR
 
Good graph there JR, really does show the law of diminishing returns jumping from an i5 to an i7 for a pure gaming system.
 
Your ideal gaming MHZ is between 4.2ghz and 4.8, depending on how lucky you are.
What? 3.0Ghz or above is the perfect ball park for gaming... you only need to look at system requirements of games, hell even system requirements lab recommend 3.0 - 3.2Ghz for optimal gaming.

4.8Ghz with 4 cores or greater is perfect for video or 3D rendering, but for gaming it's not that important.
 
What? 3.0Ghz or above is the perfect ball park for gaming... you only need to look at system requirements of games, hell even system requirements lab recommend 3.0 - 3.2Ghz for optimal gaming.

4.8Ghz with 4 cores or greater is perfect for video or 3D rendering, but for gaming it's not that important.

You should always aim to be well above that though. All well and good if there is nothing else running such as peripheral software, VOIP programs or even streaming/recording software. I agree above 4Ghz is mild overkill, but whoever moaned their rig was too powerful ;)
 
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