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i5 4670k for SLI

RyanF

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So I was planning on getting an i7 4770k so that future upgrades with SLI (GTX 780s) and minor video editing would be nicer. However, budget restraints have hit as I need to save a bit of money to afford more driving lessons - should've got it done during college, damn my laziness!

My question is: I know there will be a performance drop between the i5 4670k and i7 4770k but will the i5 be able to handle SLI and minor video editing? We're talking 4-5 minute gameplay clips once every week or so. It'll be cooled by a H100i so I'll be OCing either one of them to 4.4-4.5GHz or so.
 
Of course it will able to handle them, your FPS will just be lower on gaming, and video editing might take longer.

Or might not. Depending what you do/play, you might not see a difference. Also, your 4670k might clock very high while you might have a 4770k that clocks low. Or the other way around. There' no way to tell :)
 
A 4670k & GTX 780 rig will be able to play games and allow you to record and editing the video you do easily.

SLI is a different matter, I feel the 4670k will bottleneck those 780's. 770's or 280's may not have been an issue but 780's are a bit of a different breed.

No doubt your CPU will hold back SLI 780's. The higher you can overclock the 4670k the better. :)
 
The i5 4670K probably wont do SLI as well as it could be with the 4770k on 2 780's.

Why not get the I5 4670K and a single GTX780 for now? Then when you get the 4770K you could get the other GTX780 :D
 
I had SLi 780's on a 2500k and then a 4770k both ran them without issue at 1150 on the core at 1440p. Tbh I did not see a massive difference going to the 4770k.
 
im on an i5 3570k @ 4.6ghz , frankly i feel like i need an i7 , the gpu usage is all over the place. I need more threads on my cpu and others will tell you the same.

However it's still better than single card FPS wise I just know personally it could be better with an i7.
 
murah said:
im on an i5 3570k @ 4.6ghz , frankly i feel like i need an i7 , the gpu usage is all over the place. I need more threads on my cpu and others will tell you the same.

However it's still better than single card FPS wise I just know personally it could be better with an i7.
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My GPU usage on the 2500k was rock solid. Also turning the HT off on my 4770K made little difference on BF4.

Just saying my opinion on owning an i5 and now i7 and feel it was a bit of an unneeded upgrade unless you are into benchmarking.

I no longer have the 780's as I found them overkill for me even at 1440p. I use a single 290x which gives me perfectly smooth FPS at 1440p.
 
Yeah, I've gone for the 4670k and have decided to save money and not bother with SLI. That is money that can be put towards games and stuff ;)
 
There is no difference worth shouting about in regards to game what so ever, unless you game at low resolution which im guessing you wont be, then you are talking 1 to 2 FPS at best, and thats across a wide range of games at 1080P higher you go the less it will be, might benefit more from a 4770 in tri sli, but i have not seen anything to back this up yet

For a more indepth review read this
 
I can personally vouch for the fact an I7 is pretty much needed to drive SLI thanks to its 8 threads. My gpu usage is fluctuating tones in most games. Will report back once I have an i7.
 
murah said:
I can personally vouch for the fact an I7 is pretty much needed to drive SLI thanks to its 8 threads. My gpu usage is fluctuating tones in most games. Will report back once I have an i7.
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I would suggest something else is not quite right. An overclocked 3570k should have no issues with a pair of 670's.

With a pair of 290x cards and HT disabled on my 4770k I can still keep both GPU's at well over %90 usage at 1440p.

Are you using 1080p ?
 
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well technically, I'm waiting for a good monitor so I use down-sampling to 1080p works great shouldn't be a huge performance hit either.

Don't know but even so I think the i7's are better chips?
 
murah said:
I can personally vouch for the fact an I7 is pretty much needed to drive SLI thanks to its 8 threads. My gpu usage is fluctuating tones in most games. Will report back once I have an i7.
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So you make this claim as a matter of fact and the say that you not got a i7 yet? :confused:

murah said:
well technically, I'm waiting for a good monitor so I use down-sampling to 1080p works great shouldn't be a huge performance hit either.

Don't know but even so I think the i7's are better chips?
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Yes they are better chips for applications that make use of the 8 virtual cores, but in games at high res, anything above 1080P and better you wont see any difference in FPS, i7 will do a better job at the physics and games that are CPU dependent, but in the majority of games you wont see no difference, not in single card or two cards in sli, might see a difference in tri and quad sli tho, if you can afford the i7 then get it, but if you want to save money without compromising your gaming performance then i5 will do you just fine
 
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