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Hello i will be running X2 980 ti classified cards in SLI Overclocked

 

 

Will this CPU be good enough for the two GPUS. As i know some CPUS can bottleneck performance once you get in to high end Graphics cards in SLI You need more powerful Cpus. 

 

 

The CPU Intel Core i7 4790K

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easily, i don't suppose this was a troll post.

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The CPU is actually kind of overkill for only gaming, The i5 would work as good. But its better in rendering and multitasking

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The CPU is actually kind of overkill for only gaming, The i5 would work as good. But its better in rendering and multitasking

It even beats my 5820k!! and it's cheaper.

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easily, i don't suppose this was a troll post.

No i thought i saw once that when some one ran X2 titan Xs in SLI he said the CPU was bottle necking them xD 

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Asks if the Very Fastest CPU for gaming is fast enough for gaming.

Ok.

 

But anyway, some games are just more CPU bound, and you can get the fastest CPU ever 2x and still be CPU limited, just gotta take it game by game really.

 

With 2 980 TIs you might actually run in to CPU limited situations in even more GPU demanding games, just cause that graphics house power is just so mind numbingly fast. 

 

resolution makes a massive different too, higher resolutions put more stress on the graphics, but no more on the cpu, so it can balance things out sometimes.

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No i thought i saw once that when some one ran X2 titan Xs in SLI he said the CPU was bottle necking them xD 

Depends on the game my 4790k can sometimes bottleneck my gtx 970.

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Depends on the game my 4790k can sometimes bottleneck my gtx 970.

What about at 1080p? 

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What about at 1080p? 

Depends on the game, for example, TF2 would be at 30% GPU load (with 100% cpu load), Crysis would be at 100% GPU load (with 50% or whatever cpu load).

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Depends on the game, for example, TF2 would be at 30% GPU load, Crysis would be at 100% GPU load.

How is that a bottleneck ?

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Depends on the game, for example, TF2 would be at 30% GPU load, Crysis would be at 100% GPU load.

 

its not a bottleneck. TF2 simply caps at 300 fps or so. so the compenents arent running (thankfully) on full load

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4690K.

 

4790K as said on another thread for gaming would be pretty much going to a store with about 280-300, buying an i5 then going to a bridge and throwing the rest of your money down the river.

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How is that a bottleneck ?

Because one component is limiting another obviously.

 

its not a bottleneck. TF2 simply caps at 300 fps or so. so the compenents arent running (thankfully) on full load

No, TF2 is a very CPU limited game, on a busy server, you'll be lucky to stay above 200 fps, I had a friend with a AMD 965 with a 970 and he got only 70 fps in tf2 cause it's just way more heavy on the CPU.

 

 

Also, I know these things very well, considering I used to play it on a competitive level.

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Because CPU load = 100% on any single core, GPU load = 30%, if I get a faster CPU, my fps would increase.

 

No, TF2 is a very CPU limited game, on a busy server, you'll be lucky to stay above 200 fps, I had a friend with a AMD 965 with a 970 and he got only 70 fps in tf2 cause it's just way more heavy on the CPU.

 

Also, I know these things very well, considering I used to play it on a competitive level.

 

its still not a cpu bottleneck. you are wrong.

 

its the server being laggy and therfore effecting your FPS

 

if you ever played minecraft on a server and saw some TNT explode. you dont get 10 fps on massive explosions because of crazy calculations that tax the cpu. its  the server not being good enough and tanking your FPS

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Because one component is limiting another obviously.

That isn't a bottleneck as you're getting the best performance you can get form that card and the reason it isn't at 100% cause it's a freaking source game which you know doesn't use a lot of GPU power.

And with your AMD example it's expected as you know AMD CPUs are relatively weak compared to Intel CPUs.

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So confused xD

Well let's just look at what a bottleneck is to begin with, a bottleneck happens when one component is capped out to 100% load, and that in turn stops another component running at full speed/utilisation.

 

However, some games put more load on one component that the other, so for instance, if you're playing crysis, you might be at 50% cpu usage, but 100% GPU usage, this would be a GPU limited situation, and you'd get more FPS by getting a stronger GPU.

 

But if we go to Team Fortress 2, this game is poorly optimized, and and will be limited by the CPU because Source only allocates processes to 1-2 cores, effectively maxing them two cores to 100% and then the GPU is just left at 35% usage. In this situation you'd be in a CPU limited scenario, and getting a faster CPU would increase performance, but a faster GPU wouldn't.

 

So you do now understand that it entirely dependent on the game if you'd have a CPU bottleneck or not?

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That isn't a bottleneck as you're getting the best performance you can get form that card and the reason it isn't at 100% cause it's a freaking source game which you know doesn't use a lot of GPU power.

 

That's literally what a bottleneck is. The game is not GPU intensive so the CPU becomes more important.If you, however ,played Crysis 3 at 4K then that is far more GPU intensive than it is CPU intensive so you would hit the limit of your GPU first.

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That isn't a bottleneck as you're getting the best performance you can get form that card and the reason it isn't at 100% cause it's a freaking source game which you know doesn't use a lot of GPU power.


And with your AMD example it's expected as you know AMD CPUs are relatively weak compared to Intel CPUs.

 It doesn't use a lot of GPU power because it's CPU limited :3, if I overclocked my CPU, I would notice a proportionate increase in GPU utilisation. 

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It doesn't use a lot of GPU power because it's CPU limited :3, if I overclocked my CPU, I would notice a proportionate increase in GPU utilisation.

And how much FPS would you gain when you OC ? and if you want to increase utilisation of GPU just use super sampling.

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That's literally what a bottleneck is. The game is not GPU intensive so the CPU becomes more important.If you, however ,played Crysis 3 at 4K then that is far more GPU intensive than it is CPU intensive so you would hit the limit of your GPU first.

But it isn't like his CPU is hitting 100% while his GPU is 30%, it's just that the game doesn't utilize GPU because of it's engine.

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And how much FPS would you gain when you OC ?

An amount proportionate to the OC. TF2 is just CPU limited, from my q8300 to my FX 8350 my FPS doubled, from my 8350 to my 4790k, my FPS doubled.

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  • CPU: Intel 6700k @ 4.2Ghz
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An amount proportionate to the OC. TF2 is just CPU limited, from my q8300 to my FX 8350 my FPS doubled, from my 8350 to my 4790k, my FPS doubled.

That's expected as like every new CPU you are getting has better IPC and etc.., can you give me an example ? like let's say a 1GHz OC would that result in an extra 10 FPS ?

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That's expected as like every new CPU you are getting has better IPC and etc.., can you give me an example ? like let's say a 1GHz OC would that result in an extra 10 FPS ?

Will an underclock do for proof, getting my 4790k above 4.6 is tricky, but if going from 3.6ghz to 4.4ghz yields a significant performance different without signs of diminishing returns, it's reasonable to think that going from 4.4ghz to 5ghz will continue the tend, right?

 

Also, to get consistent fps results, I can record a demo and play it back, source demos just capture server I/O client I/O and user input, so it gives realistic fps if I remember right.

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  • Graphics card: Asus GTX 980 Ti (Temp target: 60c, fan speed: slow as hell)
  • CPU: Intel 6700k @ 4.2Ghz
  • CPU Heatsink: ThermalRight Silver Arrow Extreme
  • Motherboard: Asus Maximus Viii Gene
  • Ram: 8GB of DDR4 @ 3000Mhz
  • Headphone source: O2 + Odac 
  • Mic input: Creative X-Fi Titanium HD
  • Case: Fractal Design Arc midi R2
  • Boot Drive: Samsung 840 Pro 128GB 
  • Storage: Seagate SSHD 2TB
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Will an underclock do for proof, getting my 4790k above 4.6 is tricky, but if going from 3.6ghz to 4.4ghz yields a significant performance different without signs of diminishing returns, it's reasonable to think that going from 4.4ghz to 5ghz will continue the tend, right?

 

Also, to get consistent fps results, I can record a demo and play it back, source demos just capture server I/O client I/O and user input, so it gives realistic fps if I remember right.

Man, I'm not saying you're lying, I'm asking what kind of performance you're getting with an OC.

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