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2500k @4.8ghz will definitely bottleneck a 1080 ti ?

You'll need some really fast DDR3 and a good motherboard to get the most from a 3770K. I'd look for a known good stepping 3770K.

Depending on the rest of system, I'd weigh up the cost against that of a AM4 board, R7 1700 and DDR4.
 
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Personally I've always upgraded in stages like this.

The cost of buying cutting edge gpu and cpu at the same time put me off.

Yes you will be cpu limited, but you may be better off in the long run rather than buying a compromise cpu and gpu now.
1080ti should last for a long time.

I wouldn't look to change just your cpu, better to save that money up and do a full on cpu, board memory upgrade later.

If it's going to take you ages to save up for the cpu upgrade it may be better to forget the ti and just get a 1080.
Or just save up and buy it all in one go.
 
If you get a 3770k and you're going for new RAM too, don't bother with anything above 2400MHz. I am still running a 3770k in my main rig and while I can run my RAM stable at 2666MHz using XMP, doing a quick AIDA cache and memory benchmark shows almost half the read/write performance of 2400MHz.

My Teamgroup Xreeem 2666MHz kits tune nicely to 10-12-12-31-1T 2400MHz. Would really recommend this particular RAM if you're on the hunt for some.

Mt 3770k happily runs at 5.1GHz :D No upgrades for me for a while.
 
Bluntwrapped said:
If you get a 3770k and you're going for new RAM too, don't bother with anything above 2400MHz. I am still running a 3770k in my main rig and while I can run my RAM stable at 2666MHz using XMP, doing a quick AIDA cache and memory benchmark shows almost half the read/write performance of 2400MHz.

My Teamgroup Xreeem 2666MHz kits tune nicely to 10-12-12-31-1T 2400MHz. Would really recommend this particular RAM if you're on the hunt for some.

Mt 3770k happily runs at 5.1GHz :D No upgrades for me for a while.
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Thats a nice 3770K. Share the manufacturing details.
 
Vish Petrol said:
This, drop in a 2600k/2700k/3770k if you can
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3770k is what you'd want, 3570k for me in BF 1 bottlenecks my 1070 sometimes which is what annoys me the most but for everything else gaming wise it's great.

Bluntwrapped said:
If you get a 3770k and you're going for new RAM too, don't bother with anything above 2400MHz. I am still running a 3770k in my main rig and while I can run my RAM stable at 2666MHz using XMP, doing a quick AIDA cache and memory benchmark shows almost half the read/write performance of 2400MHz.

My Teamgroup Xreeem 2666MHz kits tune nicely to 10-12-12-31-1T 2400MHz. Would really recommend this particular RAM if you're on the hunt for some.

Mt 3770k happily runs at 5.1GHz :D No upgrades for me for a while.
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Very nice what board you running?
 
nightrider1470 said:
I can't really afford Rysen as used all funds for 1080 ti

I will look to buy a decent clocking 3770k and sell my 2500k

That help things?
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To be honest, depends on the game and depends on the resolution / settings you are running.

The 2500k puts up a decent show when overclocked for the most part. But for sure there are going to be times when you are bottlenecked in certain games. But even then, the fps will still be playable.

A 3770k will improve things, but they are overpriced in the second hand market unfortunately.
 
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