1080Ti SLI on i7 4770K

[Curlyriff]

From the benchmarks i've seen there is around a 20-25% in single core performance and 20% in multi core. That's a good increase and if you add on top RAM & MB upgrades then surely a nice improvement?

The difference is not stock to stock and a good number are showing the 4770K at stock or medium overclock at around 4.4GHz (average) compared to a 5GHz 7700K so maybe I should have clarified more but if you have a good clock 4770K or conversely a poor clocking 7700K then you certainly wont see that.

Some of the other benches that are with the larger 25% increase are because they used older results of the same GPU for the 4770K and then done new results for the 7700K and because of course drivers have updated then it doesn't even out. Anything more than that from memory has had a GPU change also which negates the point of comparing (but they are few and far between where someone has done those kind of things).

With how things are starting to shape up with the Ryzen series and the R5 then I really don't see the idea to move to the 7700K.

 

[valerislysander]

The difference is not stock to stock and a good number are showing the 4770K at stock or medium overclock at around 4.4GHz (average) compared to a 5GHz 7700K so maybe I should have clarified more but if you have a good clock 4770K or conversely a poor clocking 7700K then you certainly wont see that.

Some of the other benches that are with the larger 25% increase are because they used older results of the same GPU for the 4770K and then done new results for the 7700K and because of course drivers have updated then it doesn't even out. Anything more than that from memory has had a GPU change also which negates the point of comparing (but they are few and far between where someone has done those kind of things).

With how things are starting to shape up with the Ryzen series and the R5 then I really don't see the idea to move to the 7700K.

Okay that's interesting. I do have i7-4770k which only clocks to 4.2GHz (unlucky) and I've been looking at doing a completely new build. My current build is originally from 2010 with same Case, RAM, Cooler, PSU but changed to Haswell from Sandybridge in 2013.
So I thought this year I'll upgrade everything and do a totally new build and upgrade all components.

Now since Ryzen I can't decide what CPU to get....always had Intel. Ryzen benchmarks are looking better all the time but the i7-7700k looks to be the top gaming CPU at the still but only just. And of course Intel will bring Coffeelake (maybe with 6-cores mainstream, finally) and with Ryzen out they might release at lower price....but of course no release date could be next year.

 

[Phixsator]

Okay that's interesting. I do have i7-4770k which only clocks to 4.2GHz (unlucky) and I've been looking at doing a completely new build. My current build is originally from 2010 with same Case, RAM, Cooler, PSU but changed to Haswell from Sandybridge in 2013.
So I thought this year I'll upgrade everything and do a totally new build and upgrade all components.

Now since Ryzen I can't decide what CPU to get....always had Intel. Ryzen benchmarks are looking better all the time but the i7-7700k looks to be the top gaming CPU at the still but only just. And of course Intel will bring Coffeelake (maybe with 6-cores mainstream, finally) and with Ryzen out they might release at lower price....but of course no release date could be next year.

If we look at here and now the intels offerings makes no sense and certainly not the 7700k. I remember when i bought my 4770k i was laughed at in here when i got that instead of the non HT part due to future proofing and look who is laughing now? certainly not them and now we have gaming scenarios where 4 core i7s are stretched to near max limit. If intel had a 6 core mainstream part out that didnt cost an arm and a leg i would understand why you would consider buying intel again but as it stands now Ryzen offers so much more value. It can sustain any graphics card on the market with enough juice, it has more cores/threads for when that is needed and cost less than a 7700k while being right on its heels in most older games under realistic conditions and proven to be a power house in future applications. This is of course my own personal opinion and there are certainly some that disagrees with it

 

[Robzere31]

It worked for you in the sense that you saw an increase in performance. The difference between the 4770k and 7700k at 4k is going to be minimal at best. Did you run both CPUs with the same GPU?

Yes I ran the 4770 for a couple of weeks with the 1080ti before going to the 7700