2600k and a gtx1080ti a good match?

[marcus1954]

hi im interested in peoples opinions. At the moment I have a 2600k running at 4.3ghz np on a P8P67PRO sandybridge motherboard .I have 16gb of ddr3 corsair lp vengeance ram.i also am using win 7 pro 64bit.

I mostly play games such as ESO online,.WoW , wITCHER 3 ETC. I am using a Dell S2716DG monitor and a Msi gtx980ti. This setup is ok but would like to know if a GTX1080Ti would be a good upgrade . And compatible. So on my m/board ive use a gtx570,gtx770 ,gtx980 and my current one. tHEY ALL SEEMED TO WORK OK. Would welcome peoples comments. ty

 

[jasonsony735]

Well put it this way I have i5 2500k O/C at 4.5 GHZ and it EATs every game for breakfast ! You will get well over 60 FPS on ultra settings in all these games at 1080 & 1440 !

 

[Disco_P]

I used a GTX 1080 with a 100Hz 1440p screen in combo with a 4.5Ghz 2500K, 4.8Ghz 3570K and 4.5Ghz 2600K. Rest of the system was 16GB of 1600Mhz CL9 memory on a Sabertooth Z77 motherboard.

Reason I tried 3 socket 1155 CPUs was that the experience was pretty damn rubbish. With the i5 CPUs I would frequently reach 100% usage on all cores in Witcher 3 (particularly novigrad) and BF4&1 - these are the only "modern" titles I play but I imagine many demanding games in 2016/17 would be the same. You didn't even need software to monitor it as you could feel the stutter that heavy CPU bottlenecks often induce and minimum frame rates where pretty damn low. Averages weren't great - normally around 60 I'd estimate.

The i7 2600K was better as it never reached 100% usage so eliminated the stutter and low minimums but the averages frame rates weren't improved.

In the end I sold the lot and bought a 2nd hand 5820K, mobo and RAM which I have also clocked at 4.5Ghz. The extra cores, threads, IPC improvements and RAM speed improved things massively. Averages were high and the experience is really smooth.

Of course the 5820K + X99 is a terrible purchase now, Ryzen 1600 or 1700 gets my recommendation.

 

[ianh]

Marcus - I have the same i7 2600k @ 4.6ghz on the same P8P67PRO mobo with 16Gb of Corsair XMS3 RAM and my KFA2 1080Ti EX OC arrives later today so I will let you know if everything fits OK (it should) and how much benefit I get.

I'm uprating from a KFA2 780 HOF version and, from the "comparison" sites, I should be around 2 to 2.5 times faster with a 1080Ti. I mainly play GR Wildlands, World of Warships, ARMA 3 and a bunch of much older non-relevant games all at 1080p @ 60Hz and the 780 is around mid-40's to 50-ish on most modern games at "high" graphic levels so I'll post up any big differences around 10pm-ish tonight for you.

OT fact - I've had the same PC for 6 years now and, other than a bigger SSD (128Gb upto 512Gb), it's been kept upto date by just replacing the original GTX 580 with a 780 and now a 1080Ti GPU and the system is still rock solid!

 

[Sasahara]

I have a 2600K @ 4.5Ghz on a GA-P67A-UD4-B3, Kingston HyperX 16GB, Dell S2716DG on win 7 Pro 64. Seems quite similar.

My Aorus GeForce GTX 1080Ti EX Ed makes games run like melted butter, Wow and Tomb Raider run seamlessly, G-sync is great. (Wow does get slow fps in congested areas, but you get that with most CPUs)

 

[Terrorfirmer]

It will run generally OK but you'd want a heavy overclock to eliminate bottlenecking in CPU heavy games.

A 144hz panel will show this bottleneck a lot worse than a standard monitor, even at 4.3Ghz a 2600K is gonna be a noticable bottleneck compared to a 6700/7700K for example in some games.

Obviously everything will still run perfectly smoothly and north of 60fps, but it will be held back in some games.

 

[Disco_P]

It will run generally OK but you'd want a heavy overclock to eliminate bottlenecking in CPU heavy games.

A 144hz panel will show this bottleneck a lot worse than a standard monitor, even at 4.3Ghz a 2600K is gonna be a noticable bottleneck compared to a 6700/7700K for example in some games.

Obviously everything will still run perfectly smoothly and north of 60fps, but it will be held back in some games.

Yeah this was a similar experience to me.

 

[marcus1954]

ty all my 2600k is the best cpu ive ever bought I think funny to think it still is relevant 6 years later

 

[Poneros]

I used a GTX 1080 with a 100Hz 1440p screen in combo with a 4.5Ghz 2500K, 4.8Ghz 3570K and 4.5Ghz 2600K. Rest of the system was 16GB of 1600Mhz CL9 memory on a Sabertooth Z77 motherboard.

Reason I tried 3 socket 1155 CPUs was that the experience was pretty damn rubbish. With the i5 CPUs I would frequently reach 100% usage on all cores in Witcher 3 (particularly novigrad) and BF4&1 - these are the only "modern" titles I play but I imagine many demanding games in 2016/17 would be the same. You didn't even need software to monitor it as you could feel the stutter that heavy CPU bottlenecks often induce and minimum frame rates where pretty damn low. Averages weren't great - normally around 60 I'd estimate.

The i7 2600K was better as it never reached 100% usage so eliminated the stutter and low minimums but the averages frame rates weren't improved.

In the end I sold the lot and bought a 2nd hand 5820K, mobo and RAM which I have also clocked at 4.5Ghz. The extra cores, threads, IPC improvements and RAM speed improved things massively. Averages were high and the experience is really smooth.

Of course the 5820K + X99 is a terrible purchase now, Ryzen 1600 or 1700 gets my recommendation.

The 2nd hand 5820k/6800k is the smart play tbh, did the same, even Ryzen ain't that cheap (but not 2nd hand either). Can't say the performance difference from the i3 6100 of before is that significant though, but at least it's got more longevity.

 

[Sasahara]

It will run generally OK but you'd want a heavy overclock to eliminate bottlenecking in CPU heavy games.

A 144hz panel will show this bottleneck a lot worse than a standard monitor, even at 4.3Ghz a 2600K is gonna be a noticable bottleneck compared to a 6700/7700K for example in some games.

Obviously everything will still run perfectly smoothly and north of 60fps, but it will be held back in some games.

It's a G-sync monitor so it runs smoothly in the 45 to 144fps range.

 

[ianh]

All fitted without issue and 1st Unigine Heaven Benchmark done. This was done using stock drivers and with no adjustments other than disabling V-Sync (no Afterburner etc) -

KFA2 780 HOF with old 347.88 drivers (Mar '15)

Same settings with KFA2 1080Ti EX OC and latest 382.33 drivers (May '17)

3D Mark 11

KFA2 780 HOF with old 347.88 drivers (Mar '15)

Same settings with KFA2 1080Ti EX OC and latest 382.33 drivers (May '17)

So around a 225% improvement in Unigine and 260% in 3D Mark '11 which is right around the 200 to 250% better FPS estimated by comparison sites and I'm extremely happy with that. In fact I think 3D Mark shows the difference very well with their "where does this fit in compared to others" graph compared to my original 5037 result which is nicely average now -

As an aside, the slower "low" FPS figure on the 1080Ti in the Unigine Heaven benchmark happens for a split second during the transition between scene 17-18 and 18-19 (two night scenes) but the actual scenes are fine at 200+FPS and for the rest of the bench mark it's happily sat at 270-ish FPS so I'm not sure what happens during that transition. Temp wise it sits around 75-79'c and it is still as quiet as my 780 HOF with a barely audible low freq hum not noticeable above my Noctua system fans at 2m away from me (I use it as a media/gaming PC on a TV).

I forgot to do a "before" game benchmark so I'm not sure how much benefit an "after" one would be but I'll post up some FRAPS figures for World of Warships and Wildlands later tonight and put them in this post.

***EDIT*** - FRAPS Figures

Wildlands on Medium settings was 40-50FPS before but now 90FPS on Medium and 60FPS on ULTRA settings.

Warships - was 50-ish FPS at Medium high settings but the game is FPS locked at 77 even with the graphics settings all max'd out.

 

[roddypoddy]

I have the same specs as you,only 24 gb of memory,the old girl still has some fight left.
Have you tried this https://forums.overclockers.co.uk/threads/unigine-superposition-benchmark.18775328/ bench,i'm at 30 odd in the list.

 

[ianh]

At 1.2GB I'll have to DL that overnight (good old countryside interweb speed) so I'll give it a bash tomorrow afternoon.