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I would crank the settings up, and your performance would probably increase! Your i7 should still be fine, the problem you might be having is that by turning the settings down to medium the game is trying to leverage more of the cpu than the gpu!

When it comes to gaming, you want headroom for your cpu, so your gpu isn't being bottlenecked! As long as you are leveraging the full capabilities of your gpu then there is no real bottleneck.

Then either cpu is going to work great and I doubt in real world use there is even a noticeable difference! So, I would go with whatever platform is cheaper!

Either cpu would work great for your use case, as far as the benchmarks go, I would ask what gpu they were using because I know a professional workstation gpu would help performance in alot of those workloads as opposed to a gaming gpu!

Fair enough, I will say that I'm not a big fan of asus cards, I'm sure some people have had great experiences with them, just not me personally! Asus cards always seem to be all or nothing meaning they work flawlessly or they completely suck no real middle ground!

No worries, I know the intel sockets have been the same for the last 4 generation but each one requires a different chipset for the motherboard. such as... 6000 series = 100 series chipsets 7000 series = 200 series chipsets 8000 series = 300 series chipset all lga 1151 socket, stupidly confusing.

Now if gets above 80c under load then there might be a cooling issue but if not I wouldn't worry!

That is actually pretty normal, most gpu's wont even have the fans spin up until 50c or higher for silent operation!

Cpu isn't compatible with motherboard, you need a 300 series motherboard!

What parts are you using?

Are you certain the monitor is set to the right input in the settings? I know its kind of a dumb question.

Does the system power on and stay on while not outputting any display?

I would ask what the rest of your system looks like as a gtx 1080 or 1070ti might be a better solution!

I know that part, I am more or less concerned with driver conflicts and do I have to run a display connection from both cards?

I guess what I was trying to say is that, yeah for $250 it'll kinda work, but I think you will be highly disappointed and wishing you had spent a little more money and picked something far better!