can a 4770k push my 7990 to 100% usage in games?

[beasty6]

Hey guys,

So my i5 760@4ghz is just not cutting it anymore, my 7990 just laughs at the poor chip lol

So where do I go from here to get full potential from my 7990?
Something us telling me to go x79 for a 3930k but I will have to get a used chip as I just can't afford a new chip mobo and ram

I rarely upgrade hence why I went all out on the 7990

Bf4 titanfall c&c and loads of other games, I play pretty much everything and like it all cranked to the highest settings!

So please guys point me in the right direction

 

[alex_123_fra]

In answer to your question, yes the 4770k will not bottleneck you. Neither will the 3930k but ask yourself whether you are likely to require the extra PCI-E bandwidth later. Also do you need the larger number of cores on the 3930k for other things? If not, stick to 4770k.

 

[ALXAndy]

BF4 is still a beta and has issues. Mind you, I can see that your CPU would bottleneck the crap out of a 7990.

I would wait for the game itself and some solid benchmarks tbh. I wouldn't buy Haswell though because of the fact it doesn't overclock very well. Personally I would go X79 due to the extra features and better overclocks. It would also make a nice system to plonk your 7990 into.

But yeah, wait another month or so and see what occurs with BF4.

 

[Martini1991]

They'll be situations you can bottleneck it with the i7 4770K (I've seen you mention RTS's before)

Titanfall we don't know yet, if it's anything like Planetside 2, then it'll bottleneck (But then again, like I say, we don't know what it's like) Titanfall might be perfectly fine ; More like COD for performance.

The 4770K is the best gaming performance part, in anything you see a bottleneck in, there's nothing you can do (Unless it's one of the very, very elite games that would benefit with a 3930K for example)

I'd maybe go for a second hand X79 set up myself, 3930K's are around about ~300 quid.

Short version ; In the vast majority of cases, not a bottleneck, it's mainly RTS you need to look at.

 

[Make]

Depending on budget get the 4670k or the 4770k. Nothing wrong with either of them for long-term futureproof gaming.

Gamingwise it's the best you can buy except for small marginal differences from the extreme series.

 

[Martini1991]

i5's far from a fool proof solution for multi-gpu, especially these days, with 4 threads and multi-gpu in some later engines, it's more like the CPU gets confused and it doesn't know what to do.
So while it has the grunt to deliver, it just doesn't.

 

[beasty6]

so 3930k X79 is the path i shall take, just to find a decent clocking chip and board

 

[SayWhat?]

Hey guys,

So my i5 760@4ghz is just not cutting it anymore, my 7990 just laughs at the poor chip lol

So where do I go from here to get full potential from my 7990?
Something us telling me to go x79 for a 3930k but I will have to get a used chip as I just can't afford a new chip mobo and ram

I rarely upgrade hence why I went all out on the 7990

Bf4 titanfall c&c and loads of other games, I play pretty much everything and like it all cranked to the highest settings!

So please guys point me in the right direction

What resolution do you use to play games on?

 

[beasty6]

1920x1080, but will soon be either 2560x1080 (29" ultra wide) or a 2560x1440p

 

[lerun]

I have the 4770k and 7990, overclocking the CPU to 4.5 i see 70 - 90 % usage on the GPU (in crysis 3).
and getting around 40 fps gaming on 2560x1600 with everything on ultra and 2xSMAA

 

[blackninja]

Crysis 3 on an i7 920 @ 4.2 with 7990/7970 (@ 1150/1650) - is it bottle necked?

The canned benchmarks tend to show faster CPUs do make a difference ...


A 4770k should be better but how much I don't know. Some games won't do 100% on multiple gpus as the algorithms employed have limited parallelism (2 seems to be a good bet though!).

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