You can go the NVENC route for streaming using your 4070, that saves up tremendous amounts resources for the CPU.
I would go the i7 route, i9 only if you also edit a lot of videos.
Gaming performance is almost identical (<10%) between i7 and i9.
You can go the NVENC route for streaming using your 4070, that saves up tremendous amounts resources for the CPU.
I would go the i7 route, i9 only if you also edit a lot of videos.
Gaming performance is almost identical (<10%) between i7 and i9.
Just because your GPU is hitting 99% utilization does not mean your CPU isnt holding it back.
Upgrading to 13th or 14th gen (or AMD for that matter) will absolutely give you plenty of gains, specially on the 1%lows.