Can’t decide to ether upgrade my i7 6700k 4.7 or upgrade my ASUS striX gtx1080,My monitor is a ASUS predator 35inch 3440x1440,the 6700k worries me in certain games with all the cores getting maxed at 100% so the 3700x would be a really good upgrade and I would get money back selling the parts,I was looking at the rtx2070 ,what would you do
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3700x or new gpu
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Board, CPU and RAM would fetch enough to get the new CPU. You'd then need to spend £90 at least on a decent B450 board, and £55 on 16GB DDR4 3200MHz RAM.
So spend £145, and then see how you are doing, and if it's not good enough sell the GTX 1080 and buy the RTX 2070S.
So spend £145, and then see how you are doing, and if it's not good enough sell the GTX 1080 and buy the RTX 2070S.
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Board, CPu and RAM, I've just done the same.
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Either, your CPU is still decent, if you got a new CPU, you would probably get a few more frames, but new GPU would probably give you a bigger boost for now. and you can upgrade the CPU later to match.
We have very similar setups, I would keep the CPU for a year or two. There's a very good video from hardware unboxed very recently talking about the 6700k.
Go for a 2070 instead if you need to buy now or wait till later in the year for Nvidia next offerings.
Go for a 2070 instead if you need to buy now or wait till later in the year for Nvidia next offerings.
you are playing at fairly high resolution, i would upgrade the GPU first, you cpu is fine for most games. You could see most benefit from GPU upgrade than cpu upgrade usually.
That's not to say you should not upgrade the cpu further down the line. The new AMD cpu should be out by june/july time frame anyway.
I have a 1080Ti system with a [email protected] playing @4k and it does fine in 98% of games.
That's not to say you should not upgrade the cpu further down the line. The new AMD cpu should be out by june/july time frame anyway.
I have a 1080Ti system with a [email protected] playing @4k and it does fine in 98% of games.
I would get the ryzen system then hold out about 6 months till the new nvidias ampere Gpus are out, I have a 1070ti, very similar to your card and I too was thinking about a 2070 super but in the end the performance jump just wasn't large enough to justify a £450-500 spend when in 6 months Rtx 2080ti level of performance will be available for a similar cost.
I upgraded from a 6700k @4.7 to a 3800X about 3 months ago and I feel it was a great update. I also had a 1080 and game at 1440 like you and also play a few games in VR. After the update I felt my 1080 was holding back my system and so changed it for a 2080 Super.
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You've clearly identified that the CPU is the bottleneck and needs replacing. Why would you keep it and replace the 1080?
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because its still a good cpu for gaming and at end of the year the newer amd stuff are out at 15 percent quicker than whats out now and new intel cpus. so he made the right choice. 6700k overlocked is on par with any amd cpu gaming wise out now overclocked.