I Have £900 to spend on my upgrade. Processor or GPU?

Snowy-uk

Snowy-uk

Snowy-uk

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Hi everyone

Hopefully my signature should show my current setup bought from Overclockers UK

Quite simply, I like Simulators. either rail or flight.

I have £900 to for an upgrade.

Do I get a new processor i7 5960X for £839 or
Do I get another Titan X GPU for £800 to run in sli

what will give me the best increase in framerate?

Thanks
 
Many thanks, I assume I will have to order an extra power cable. I have had a look in the case and I cant see a spare one. there are lots of spare connecters on the side of the power supply and an sli bridge came with the MB.:)
 
You don't need to upgrade your CPU, infact I see no benefits upgrading anything from your system. Personally I wouldn't touch SLI, but I also wouldn't touch 4K at only 60 hertz. Rog Swift 1440p 165 hertz I am using and it's unreal.
 
I have amended my signature as requested. A good simulator at 4k with everything on ultra settings needs a lot of computing. I have noticed that sometimes the graphics get slightly jerky. therefore I want to upgrade to rectify the problem. I simply asked if I would be better upgrading the processor or going for sli.
I don't live under a bridge and it is not a joke account, but thanks for the welcome.
 
In your nvidia control panel, whats your "Performance/Quality" slider bar set to?

I had a similar problem and I have a Titan X and 5930K, I noticed it in one particular game, however mine I think is down to bad cooling - but as a temp measure I've moved the slider bar to performance and its solved the issue.
 
Thanks for the advice. I will have a look at the control panel to see what settings we have. I have ordered another titan x to try the sli setup. I am also going to try a M2 type ssd card and move my steam account files on to that card to see if it will improve loading times.:D
 
Yeah, cooling makes a massive difference.

I once had a mATX SLI 780Ti (Both on reference cooler) and it was always throttling back due to quickly hitting the highest safe temp (83C)

It kind of made the whole SLI thing a bit pointless in the end, so I changed to a single card. If I was ever going SLI now I'd water cool it.
 
Well that's what I will do then. I have just read an article stating that the titan card can be overclocked to 1550mhz with an updated bios. that could be interesting.
Here is a question, my system I bought from overclockers uk has a water cooled cpu which consists of a radiator and the cpu block. there is no reservoir. can I link into that system so I can use the rad and fans already there? and how come no reservoir? is it a sealed system?:confused:
 
Sounds like an all in pne cooler which is sealed but unless you can get the model cant be sure if you can reuse the rad and fans.

Cant find any product information for a Battlebox Xenolith.
 
Get a picture of it but as mickyflinn said, sounds like a AIO (All in one) in which case you cannot expand it.

Some very recent AIO's are modular which allow you add components at a later date but these are quite new to the market so need to mature a bit.

You can get AIO hybrid coolers for the Titan X - EVGA do them (Think Corsair do one too) - but they're always selling out everywhere before I get a chance to buy one!
 
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