Decent motherboard and CPU to match at RTX 2070?

[Vincenzo]

Hi, I feel like my current CPU and motherboard listed below is bottle-necking my newly purchased Nvidia GeForce RTX2070 and I was wondering what would be a good Motherboard and CPU combo as an upgrade? Any help would be appreciated, cheers.


Intel Core i7 4790K @ 4.00GHz
Gigabyte Technology Co. Ltd. Z87-D3HP-CF
4095MB NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070
32.0GB Dual-Channel DDR3 @ 665MHz

[Autumn_]

>4GB 2070.
Gotta love speccy ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ up big time.

Anyway, a light overclock will more than suffice with your CPU.

And if you want to know if there is a bottleneck, then you can use MSI Afterburner, and look at the GPU utilisation in a game.
If it's below 90%, then you've got a bottleneck. If it's above 95% nearly all the time, then you're fine.

The i7-4790k shouldn't bottleneck the 2070, as I've seen it do perfectly fine with a 1080, which a 2070 is the same performance as.

You don't need a replacement yet, at most a decent overclock (4.5-4.7ghz) will keep you going for a good while.

[Cloudy]

You are still fine with your current CPU and motherboard to be honest, just get an extremely powerful CPU cooler to overclock it to 4.5GHz. Maybe a 280mm AIO liquid cooler by EVGA, Corsair, or NZXT would do the job. Plus the day you do swapout your motherboard and CPU you can continue to use the powerful CPU cooler most likely.

[ugafan]

4790k is still a good processor, i wouldn't expect it to bottleneck your 2070 that much. what kind of fps are you getting?

if you want to upgrade, 9700k and 9900k are currently the best. next gen ryzen will be announced next week and performance is expected to be very good. i'd wait to see some benchmarks and pricing on that before making any decisions.

[xSOSxHawkens]

You dont need a new system just new ram.

Haswell sees a 15 to 25% performance boost from 2400/2600mhz ram over 1333/1600 which you have.

Changing from 32gb 1333 (just like yours) to 32gb 2400 got me +20fps average in most games with a Vega 64 (roughly the same power as ur 2070).

Also running 4790k.

[hawkeye]

As an i7-2600 rtx2070 owner, I would say that an overclocked 4790k wouldn't bottleneck a 2070 by much. I would suspect your RAM. Dual channel 665 = DDR3 1333 which is slow. Also running other apps whilst playing might also impact performance of a quad core.

However if you did want to upgrade then an i7-9700k, z390 mobo and ddr4 3000+ would be my choice. You could go for an i5-9400 or i5-9600k but spending the money wouldn't be worth it. So get a 9700k or nothing.

Make sure your bios is in high performance mode. You could try overclocking the ram in bios or buy 16gb of faster ram. I don't know if it would make much difference. But I would sell the 4790k (or keep it as a backup) and upgrade rather than buy memory.

https://www.gigabyte.com/au/Motherboard/GA-Z87-D3HP-rev-1x#sp

Digital Foundry discussed 4790k performance in this vid. The gpu used is a lot faster than a 2070. The 8700k and 9700k would perform similarly to each other with an rtx 2070. Digital Foundry also has articles that benchmark the 2070 on their website. And the second link has 8700k 2070 benchmarks, so you can see what fps to expect if you did upgrade cpu.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XHUfSIdyIfw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vMQK1YIbA7g

[_I_]

4790k is fine
its as good for gaming as any ryzen 2xxx cpu

[Vincenzo]

Цитата допису Autumn:

>4GB 2070.
Gotta love speccy ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ up big time.

Anyway, a light overclock will more than suffice with your CPU.

And if you want to know if there is a bottleneck, then you can use MSI Afterburner, and look at the GPU utilisation in a game.
If it's below 90%, then you've got a bottleneck. If it's above 95% nearly all the time, then you're fine.

The i7-4790k shouldn't bottleneck the 2070, as I've seen it do perfectly fine with a 1080, which a 2070 is the same performance as.

You don't need a replacement yet, at most a decent overclock (4.5-4.7ghz) will keep you going for a good while.

OK, getting the impression that my cpu is OK enough and I have upgraded my ram to HyperX Savage 2133 ghz since, but how best to overclock the GPU?

[Vincenzo]

Цитата допису SpicyBoiii12:

Цитата допису Autumn:

>4GB 2070.
Gotta love speccy ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ up big time.

Anyway, a light overclock will more than suffice with your CPU.

And if you want to know if there is a bottleneck, then you can use MSI Afterburner, and look at the GPU utilisation in a game.
If it's below 90%, then you've got a bottleneck. If it's above 95% nearly all the time, then you're fine.

The i7-4790k shouldn't bottleneck the 2070, as I've seen it do perfectly fine with a 1080, which a 2070 is the same performance as.

You don't need a replacement yet, at most a decent overclock (4.5-4.7ghz) will keep you going for a good while.

OK, getting the impression that my cpu is OK enough and I have upgraded my ram to HyperX Savage 2133 mhz since, but how best to overclock the GPU?

[Cloudy]

Цитата допису SpicyBoiii12:

Цитата допису Autumn:

>4GB 2070.
Gotta love speccy ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ up big time.

Anyway, a light overclock will more than suffice with your CPU.

And if you want to know if there is a bottleneck, then you can use MSI Afterburner, and look at the GPU utilisation in a game.
If it's below 90%, then you've got a bottleneck. If it's above 95% nearly all the time, then you're fine.

The i7-4790k shouldn't bottleneck the 2070, as I've seen it do perfectly fine with a 1080, which a 2070 is the same performance as.

You don't need a replacement yet, at most a decent overclock (4.5-4.7ghz) will keep you going for a good while.

OK, getting the impression that my cpu is OK enough and I have upgraded my ram to HyperX Savage 2133 ghz since, but how best to overclock the GPU?

Like I said above, you should get a powerful CPU cooler, since you have a RTX 2070 paired with a i7-4790K. If you are playing on a high refresh rate monitor chances are you may hit a small CPU bottleneck depending on the game. Depending on your CPU cooler you should overclock all your CPU's cores to 4.4GHz. A 280mm AIO liquid cooler by EVGA, Corsair, or NZXT would do the job well, plus the day you do swap out your motherboard and CPU you can continue to use the same powerful CPU cooler most likely.

[Autumn_]

Цитата допису PuertoRicanStripeHeadedTanager:

*You thought that.

8700k, 9700k, or above will work

The 4790k is still a great CPU, there is no point upgrading.