I cannot think of a single AAA title in recent memory that causes my i7 2600k -- an 8 year old CPU -- to struggle.
It can play absolutely every single modern game, with the only component upgrade in its 8 year life being the GPU.
It can play absolutely every single modern game, with the only component upgrade in its 8 year life being the GPU.
Either my cpu is slower than it should be, your cpu is faster than it should be, or you don't check out one of the poster child's aaa game series.
I cannot think of any modern, graphically demanding game which is bottlenecked by the CPU. I imagine you are harming your GPU performance to some degree with such an old CPU though. Not sure I buy what you're saying here. What settings are you using?
Yeah, me neither.
As an aside to answer your question:, I can run pretty much any game on its highest settings just fine with this machine: which is a gtx1070, 2600k, and 16gb of RAM driving a 120hz 1080p display. It was originally built with two HD5990s in crossfire.