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need help guys with a cpu!

I wouldn't run a stock i7 with a 780.

That's just me.

Say you add a second? You'll bottleneck loads, and you've got a locked i7 so there goes your resale value and options.
 
Martini1991 said:
I wouldn't run a stock i7 with a 780.

That's just me.

Say you add a second? You'll bottleneck loads, and you've got a locked i7 so there goes your resale value and options.
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so your basically saying every CPU would need to be overclocked with anyone buying a highend graphics card?..so everyone with a second graphics card has a i7 overclocked?
 
Absolutely not, it wouldn't bottleneck two 780's.

Yeah at least an 80+ certified 850w PSU, something from Corsair, Antec, XFX etc will be trustworthy enough for the task.
 
Two 780's will be bottlenecked by a stock i7 4771.

Two 7970's would be.

ollie2k13 said:
so your basically saying every CPU would need to be overclocked with anyone buying a highend graphics card?..so everyone with a second graphics card has a i7 overclocked?
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No, that's not what I'm saying.

A stock i7 4771 is going to be fast, but it's not worth the expense, overclocking CPU's is definitely worth it for maintaining the most stable frame rate.

People running dual high end GPU's on stock CPU's are bottlenecking their GPU's.
 
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I highly doubt it, if in doubt, look at this selection of threads:

http://www.tomshardware.com/answers/id-1720468/gtx-780-sli-bottleneck-3770.html

http://www.tomshardware.com/answers/id-1796924/4570-bottleneck-780-sli.html

http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/11185-will-2-gtx-780s-titan-le-be-bottlenecked-by-a-3770k/

All three of these examples use a weaker CPU than the one you are going to buy. Admittedly, the 4570 would probably bottleneck slightly as mentioned in the thread, but all i7 Ivy's and Haswell's can handle 780's in SLI without bottlenecking.
 
When I was doing some system reviewing I had a stock 3770K (For testing purposes) rocking a Z77 around launch time with a Crossfire 7970.

It bottlenecked.

The last link is also a 4.8GHZ 3770K which is going to dump all over a stock 4771.
 
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ollie2k13 said:
just say if i go for the i7 4771 because i really cant be bothered to overclock for just 10fps+ if not less increase, would the standard i7 4771 @ 3.50ghz be bottlenecking my GPU card msi 780 lightning which will be overclocked?
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Money aside, yes 4771 is great, and no need to overclock it at all to use it with 1 or 2 GTX780. (or 290X).

That is was saying before, however my post was lost on FX8350 vs 4770 argument, without taking money as consideration.

If you can afford a 4771, then get it.
 
If you say so, I was just trying to find evidence to the contrary. :D

How much of a bottleneck was it? If it was major then there's no hope, you'd have to overclock to avoid a bottleneck. If it was minor the new architecture may provide enough horsepower to get around the bottlenecking (In 7970's anyway).
 
Fair enough, I guess it's up to the OP to decide if he's willing to pay more and willing to overclock.

FX-8350 just doesn't cut it imo, the likelihood that future games will use 8 weak cores is still at the mercy of devs, I'd go with a 4+ core multi-threaded Intel CPU. If devs don't implement 8 cores when coding games and software the GPU's will be majorly bottlenecked.
 
Panos said:
Money aside, yes 4771 is great, and no need to overclock it at all to use it with 1 or 2 GTX780. (or 290X).

That is was saying before, however my post was lost on FX8350 vs 4770 argument, without taking money as consideration.

If you can afford a 4771, then get it.
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do you know if a i7 4771 is better then the i7 4770 considering they are both at the same price.. the i7 4771 is @ 3.50ghz and the i7 4770 is @ 3.40ghz but for some reason the i7 4770 is more popular i dunno why
 
Spudbrains said:
Fair enough, I guess it's up to the OP to decide if he's willing to pay more and willing to overclock.

FX-8350 just doesn't cut it imo, the likelihood that future games will use 8 weak cores is still at the mercy of devs, I'd go with a 4+ core multi-threaded Intel CPU. If devs don't implement 8 cores when coding games and software the GPU's will be majorly bottlenecked.
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you are saying fair enough now when you just gave 2-3links saying that 2 gtx780 wouldnt bottleneck a i7 series
 
Yes, because Martini1991 has some real life experience in a similar situation. I'd give into physical evidence as opposed to the opinions of others any day. ;)

And as for the 4770 vs 4771, I think some people were convinced that it (4771) didn't have an IGP. Turns out it did (I think).
 
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ollie2k13 said:
do you know if a i7 4771 is better then the i7 4770 considering they are both at the same price.. the i7 4771 is @ 3.50ghz and the i7 4770 is @ 3.40ghz but for some reason the i7 4770 is more popular i dunno why
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The 4770K is more popular as you can take the 4770K upto like 4.4GHZ to 4.8GHZ whereas the 4771 will forever be 3.5GHZ.

If I was getting a locked Haswell it'd be the 4C 8T at 190 quid.
 
Martini1991 said:
They're both overpriced as hell.
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Agreed,

Until AMD make something that beats them or comes close to them for a lot less money in ALL (Not just video editing and certain games) situations (Like the 290x) then that's the way it's going to stay.

There just isn't enough competition in the high-end market.
 
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