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Rig worthy of a 1080?

Jenkinio

Jenkinio

Jenkinio

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As you can see from my signature, I run an i5 3570K & 8gb 2133 RAM.
I'm fed up with X-fire and want to move to a single graphics card, so I'm looking at upgrading to the GTX 1080, but I was wondering if that's going to be unnecessarily powerful with other parts of the rig throttling performance.
It's a pure gaming rig, running a screen at 1440.

Ta
Jenks
 
The 3570k will be fine with a 1080. Newer cpu's offer pretty minimal performance gains in games.
 
I'm looking to do the same with a similar setup and also fed up with my first foray into crossfire with 7950/R9 280.

I'm going to play a waiting game for a bit though due to prices and talk about relative 980ti / 1080 performance and throttling issues with the 1080 OC'd...
 
I too am still on an i5 3570K but I am going to wait on Zen to see what AMD have come up with, before shelling out. If they are relatively as good as the Intel chips then I will go back to AMD and by then the dust will have settled on the GPUs and we will know more about the lay of the land as far as the next graphic upgrades go.

Sometimes, It pays to wait.
:)
 
mikeym said:
I'm looking to do the same with a similar setup and also fed up with my first foray into crossfire with 7950/R9 280.

I'm going to play a waiting game for a bit though due to prices and talk about relative 980ti / 1080 performance and throttling issues with the 1080 OC'd...
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X-fire has consistently been a disappointment for me. I thought it was a good way to get high end card performance without shelling out for one. Nice idea if it wasn't for all the wonky software support for X-fire. I've spent too many hours on my machine with X-fire disabled... so it's single cards for me from now on.

I was considering a fury-x or 980ti last year but decided to wait until Pascals. Tempting to wait longer and see what the picture looks like when Polaris arrives and the dust settles following the 1080 release, but I'm in danger of always waiting for the next tech and never committing to anything, so I'm going to jump in here feet first and get a 1080 I think. That said, I do plan to see what the 3rd party cards look like (or more importantly what the cost is).
I see that the RRP for the non FE versions is quited as $100 cheaper but do we really expect them to be cheaper?
 
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If it's any help, I recently upgraded to an i7 over the same i5 and intend to go 1080 and 1440p, depends on the hdr monitors & cost later this year.
 
maonayze said:
I too am still on an i5 3570K but I am going to wait on Zen to see what AMD have come up with, before shelling out. If they are relatively as good as the Intel chips then I will go back to AMD and by then the dust will have settled on the GPUs and we will know more about the lay of the land as far as the next graphic upgrades go.

Sometimes, It pays to wait.
:)
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I have a feeling we will be on the trusty old 3570ks for ages yet even if ZEN is good. I haven't seen anything even remotely challenge it when at 4.6ghz.
 
Lokken86 said:
I have a feeling we will be on the trusty old 3570ks for ages yet even if ZEN is good. I haven't seen anything even remotely challenge it when at 4.6ghz.
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You can max it on the division in certain areas and settings dependant. Tw3 gives it a hammering as well, mainly cities.
 
Enough to run a 1080 but you will get better minimums with a 6700k imo. Minimums are less important if your 1440p monitor is GSYNC.
 
RanxZy said:
Enough to run a 1080 but you will get better minimums with a 6700k imo. Minimums are less important if your 1440p monitor is GSYNC.
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I will have to check if my monitor is Gsync. I suspect not. In any case, it seems to be the GPU forcing me to notch graphics settings down at the moment so I figured I'd address that then worry about upgrading my CPU when that becomes an issue.

Thanks for the input all. Very helpful.
 
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