I'm going to be buying a GTx 1070/Ti atleast between now and the end of the year.
I am worried that it could bottleneck something.

These are my specs at the moment.

i5-4670 3.4GHz
Gigabyte Z87X-HD3
16GB Ram
Windows 10 64 Bit

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What (how many) Screen (Resolution/FPS) are you running with it?

But should be fine.

And whats your main Disk? HDD or SSD

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1TB Seagate HDD is my main.
120GB Sandisk SSD is for windows and a few other programs.

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Depending on the game and target resolution most likely the HDD will limit before the CPU does. (especially when big textures are being loaded on the fly)

But it shouldn't be that much of a problem.

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For what I read, if that i5 won't bottleneck a 1080 I doubt it will bottleneck a 1070ti. Of course asuming you are aiming for 1080p144hz or 1440p60hz.

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This, depends on what op does with it.

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^this.
depends on game or software that is in use

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My main monitor is a 1080p 144hz while my secondary is 1080p 60hz.

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i have a i5 6500 and it bottlenecks my 1060 6gb

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It would bottleneck for sure but how hard it does depends on the games. In general, I assume you'd be able to use 60-70% of the GPU. That shouldn't be such a huge problem though, you can upgrade your CPU later.

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Every PC has a bottleneck, don't worry about it. A 4670 is a fine CPU.

Bottlenecks are purely dependent on the current task a PC is doing. In theory there will be occasions where your GPU is bottlenecking your CPU.

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my i5 blottlenecks my 1060, so...

i think it's ok if you play in 2.5k resolution

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at 120/144hz the CPU will bottleneck that GPU. At 60hz though should be fine.
I'd also recommend getting a large 500GB-to-1TB SSD for faster load times if you can afford it.

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I like to check with http://thebottlenecker.com/ (scroll to calculator)

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Acording to that site every i5 will bottleneck. lol

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shrug They give a score, and I read it more of the likelihood you'll run into issues, not that it'll all break down if you get over 10%.

I don't know enough to validate it, unfortunately.

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Your CPU will be the only bottleneck. Not on everything, but it definitely will on something like Battlefield 1 for instance. Unless you can overclock that is.

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something will always bottleneck. if not you would have the perfect system and thats not possible.
Your CPU might be on limit on big simulations that need a lot of cpu power but this should not be the big problem tbh. And your GPU will have problems with UHD+ everything on ultra in newer games...

BUT
this system sounds fine and you will have a lot of fun with it.

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