Hi People Of Tech, and people of the 'Master Race'
I am planning on getting a GTX Titan Black (to replace a GTX 770) but I'm very certain that the Intel Core i5-3330 CPU i have in my machine will bottleneck the Titan Black.
Will this bottleneck the GPU? and if so will i see frame rate drops in game, or just lower FPS due to the i5 being maxed out while gaming?
I will be planning on upgrading to a i7-3770K at a later date.
I see, getting back to my original question on a possible bottleneck, my i5-3330 should be able to hold its own? Just that i see many people not even considering a i5 and grabbing an i7 for these top tier cards?
The only difference between say an i5-3570k and i7-3770k is 2MB of L2 cache and hyper threading. Both of which make no difference in games.
Most people go with the i7 because they think it is better or that they "need" it. They don't, Unless you are doing serious productivity work as well there is no need for an i7.