Hard time upgrading dual Titan rig

bloom_meister · 10 Sep 2019 at 12:38

Hi and thanks for taking the time to read this.

About 6 years ago I spent over 5k on a high end gaming rig based on X79, Asus Rampage extreme and with dual GTX Titans as the core components.

Lately I have been having trouble with the system and have narrowed it down to the MB but as its going to be difficult to replacethe MB at this point I have decided to bite the bullet and upgrade the system.

I will be retaining the following components:

Coolermaster CM Cosmos S case
EVGA 1kw PSU
2 x early gen SSD drives (will convert to data drives in new build)
DVD and peripherals

I mainly game on a 2500x1600 Dell 30'' having stopped using my 50'' 4TV some time ago, I was a very early adopter of 4k however the screen size just ended up being too big for me as i sit relatively close to the screen area.

Moving forwards I will be purchasing a 32 to 34 inch true 4k monitor and so will be reverting back to 4k gaming, my experience gaming at 4k is that my dual Titans could handle it easily at playable frame rates of 40-100 depending on game and settings and I have researched a LOT on whether to change the cards out for maybe a single RTX2080Ti but even though the newer card is better in many situations it seems a bit pointless because its a lot of money for something I dont actually need seeing as the Titans can produce good FPS already.

For the rest of the system I am looking at this:

Asus ROG Rampage VI Extreme 2066 X299 MB
Corsair vengeance RAM 2x16GB (so I can upgrade to more later if I want to, old system has 64GB)

Aorus 1TB NVMe PCIe Gen4 M.2 Solid State Drive (would like to use as system drive

)
Intel I9 9900x CPU
CM Masterliquid CL240R liquid cooler
Win10 Pro

Total cost of the new components is just under £2400 from my budget of £2500

Can anyone advise if having my old GTX Titans in this new build will cause any problems and/or if there will be any bottlenecks either way. Note that I am not any kind of expert overclocker and will be running the Titans at stock and the CPU's at a mild overclock using the inbuilt Asus bios software

Many thanks in advance

Quartz · 10 Sep 2019 at 12:50

Exactly which Titans did you buy?

I game at 4k and 1440pUW. I went from dual Maxwell Titans to a single 2080 Ti and am very pleased with the performance improvement.

Webster · 10 Sep 2019 at 12:56

Have you looked at going 3900x?

Surely that route and a 2080Ti, sell the Titans, would be a better upgrade all round?

bloom_meister · 10 Sep 2019 at 13:28

Quartz said:
Exactly which Titans did you buy?

I game at 4k and 1440pUW. I went from dual Maxwell Titans to a single 2080 Ti and am very pleased with the performance improvement.

I bought the EVGA Superclocked GTX Titans (the original ones, 6GB ram IIRC), they have been faultless, quiet and relatively cool although shares in myelectricity provider have increased during my ownership...

bloom_meister · 10 Sep 2019 at 13:33

Webzta said:
Have you looked at going 3900x?

Surely that route and a 2080Ti, sell the Titans, would be a better upgrade all round?

I will admit to having had some bad experiences with AMD in the past and although I am sure the current products are extremely good (and better value per price point) I want total peace of mind and for me that means going Intel.

As to selling the Titans i doubt they would get much for them (2-400 quid for both?) and as long as i can get a solid 60fps at normal 4k settings (doesnt need to be ultra as quite honestly my eyes cant really tell the difference) then I dont see the point of shelling out another 12-1500 quid for extra FPS i wont really notice.

I am not 'super' technical, I know just enough to build my own rigs and do the basic research but what I would like help with is in knowing if the old GPU's will in any way hinder my new I9 at the resolutions I am playing at or if they wont work well with this latest top end Asus MB.

Webster · 10 Sep 2019 at 13:35

bloom_meister said:
I will admit to having had some bad experiences with AMD in the past and although I am sure the current products are extremely good (and better value per price point) I want total peace of mind and for me that means going Intel.

As to selling the Titans i doubt they would get much for them (2-400 quid for both?) and as long as i can get a solid 60fps at normal 4k settings (doesnt need to be ultra as quite honestly my eyes cant really tell the difference) then I dont see the point of shelling out another 12-1500 quid for extra FPS i wont really notice.

I am not 'super' technical, I know just enough to build my own rigs and do the basic research but what I would like help with is in knowing if the old GPU's will in any way hinder my new I9 at the resolutions I am playing at or if they wont work well with this latest top end Asus MB.

Fair enough, are you doing anything that needs the 9900x over the normal 9900k? Same logic applies, 9900k/board/ram/GPU = £2500~ ?

bloom_meister · 10 Sep 2019 at 13:36

bloom_meister said:
I bought the EVGA Superclocked GTX Titans (the original ones, 6GB ram IIRC), they have been faultless, quiet and relatively cool although shares in myelectricity provider have increased during my ownership...

Specifically 2 of these:
EVGA GeForce GTX TITAN Superclock Signature Edition 6144MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card (06G-P4-2793-KR)
GX-211-EA

Quartz · 10 Sep 2019 at 13:54

bloom_meister said:
I bought the EVGA Superclocked GTX Titans (the original ones, 6GB ram IIRC), they have been faultless, quiet and relatively cool

Yup, well due for replacement. Especially as SLI has been pretty much deprecated. A 2080 Ti will more than suffice.

although shares in myelectricity provider have increased during my ownership...

orbitalwalsh · 10 Sep 2019 at 14:08

new x299 boards are incoming, along with new CPUs to go with them, and Intel's claims of slashing price to performance ....

might be worth holding out just a little, though grabbing 2080ti now can't help as.... nothing is coming along that end lol

AMD will beat intel to the punch with ryzen 3900 - though im expect that to drop in price a little