Upgrade from i7 4770k - Tell me what I already know

[Kinsy]

Currently got:-

i7 4770k delidded on water at a whopping 4.4Ghz (I know right, what an amazing CPU)
1080ti @ 2025/6000mhz gpu/mem (much better)
Asus Maximus IV Hero Z87 w/BIOS patch to boot from NVMe
16GB DD3 2600mhz
512GB M.2 SSD

Cooling capacity on my loop is 360 and 280 rad, so plenty.

Holding off for a Ryzen 3 as the CPU has served me...well...despite clocking like an old woman, but debating whether - if the time and money allows - to sell the 1080ti now while prices are ehhh and use what's in my 2nd PC i built for 'fun':-

i7 6700 non-K that does 4.6Ghz on water
Radeon Vega 56 that seems to do about 1900mhz core and definitely has Samsung HBM memory, so Vega 64 speeds
Asus Z170-M Plus w/hacked bios
16GB DDR4 2600mhz

This is up for sale and I will probably be able to get £600 for the whole thing - or I could keep it.
Selling the 1080ti would add ~£300-350?

Worth holding out for Ryzen 3 and 3080?

I game on a LG 34" 1440p panel; this box doesn't get used for much else outside of games, but if I ever have to make it do work due to my MacBook breaking, it would have to run macOS as I hate Windows with a thorough passion, and it would do a fair amount of video encoding.

 

[Kinsy]

I have to use Windows to game, I accept that. It's just if I had to if my laptop broke (it's happened) I like to have a Hackintosh to hand as a backup (that's what the 2nd PC was for). The rest of the time the whole thing is just there for gaming.

Would the 4770K @ 4.4Ghz bottleneck the 3080? I guess we won't know really until benchmarks come. I assumed the 4770K would bottleneck the 1080ti but it's been fine?

 

[Kinsy]

Hold on, let me just undock my carrier...

 

[Kinsy]

On that note...
I am selling the 2nd PC I built for fun for £600 - I gave a friend of mine a 2500K/GTX770 backup build in my old ATCS201 case for, well, free a while back. He's got the bug again and wants an upgrade and to pay me back a little so he's saving his pennies.

Looking at all the pretty graphs the 5000 series will lick the bumcheeks but, again, I really don't need super CPU horses for my gaming PC. I daily drive my 34" through the Macbook Pro and run all my renders on it / a million quote spreadsheets / a Windblows 10 VM for necessary evils (**** you Sage!) with ease.

I know supply is a massive unknown with 3080s still so I'm yet to make my mind up, but considering I could buy the board and RAM now I'm sorely tempted to get started. Maybe even be a complete tit and get a 3600X to tide me over like you Trick (where did you get that from!?)

 

[Kinsy]

I'm obviously going to wait for the 5000 series and probably go for a 5800X, no point buying a 3000 series right now.
Framerate dips in PUBG are doing my head in atm and looking at the graphs, the GPU isn't hitting 100% all the time, going between 80 and 95%.

In the meantime, am considering beating the bumrush and ordering this now:-

Patriot Viper Steel 16GB (2x8GB) DDR4 PC4-35200C19 4400MHz Dual Channel Kit (PVS416G440C9K)
Stock Code MY-103-PA


Pre Order



Was: £149.99
£119.99*
£119.99*



Asus ROG Strix X570-E Gaming (AMD AM4) DDR4 X570 Chipset ATX Motherboard
Stock Code MB-6DV-AS


10+ In stock



Was: £314.99
£289.99*
£289.99*



EK Water Blocks EK-Quantum Momentum ROG Strix X570-E D-RGB Monoblock - Plexi
Stock Code WC-9WD-EK


Out of stock



£124.99*
£124.99*



In the meantime I would add I got my Adata 2133mhz 16GB DDR3 kit running at 2600mhz 1T Command rate and am trying to get 4.5Ghz out of the 4770k. It's getting 1.4v to do it along with a load of other tweaks but I'll see if I can get it up to 4.6 without hitting TJMax. Remove all the bottlenecks!