The Elder Smurf

for the tl;dr
1. Gigabit Ethernet will not be a bottleneck for your Gigabit Internet
2. WiFi will be a bottleneck but to what degree depends on your gear/conditions
3. Most of the time you won't be able to saturate your 1Gbps internets anyways

I have a 6700k paired with a gtx 1080 and recently bought an rx 460 2gb just for kicks. I put it in the machine and played games league of legends at 1080p (due to scaling issues in game, i have a 4k monitor) and it actually runs smoother and looks better than with the 1080. Now obviously the rx 460 can't play crysis at 4k, but why does it play the lighter graphic games better than a 1080 at 1080p. Also this isn't just my sayso, there are noticeable frame tearing and skipping even though both are locked at 60 fps, vsync on or off (with the gtx 1080, the 460 sees none of those problems).
 
Anyone have an idea as to why this would happen, maybe the gtx 1080 has too much horsepower for the game engine to handle?
 
[edit] could gpu boost 3.0 have anything to do with this?

I would back this build. The 845 is one kick ass little chip. But dude for that budget the used market is your friend

Vega is going to be 4th Gen gcn arch, so it's going to be a 490 and a fury successor. Maybe they will make a rx 485, an rx 490, an rx 495, and a rx rage or something like that

Someone's a console gamer. Lag is bad Internet. Stutter is from hardware overload 

The latest ones unless and specifically said otherwise. 

I wouldn't recommend buying an fx cpu at this point. I have nothing against amd and I own two fx cpus, a 4350 and a 8300. Both are great cpu's, but they are so old at this point, it would be like running out and getting a 2600k for a brand new pc, just not worth it. Also an i5 6500 with an h110 mini itx board will solve your sff problem, just saying.
 
And if you REALLY WANT AMD, am4 is coming up in the next few months and those cpus if anywhere near rumor, would be definitely worth looking into

I wouldn't recommend buying an fx cpu at this point. I have nothing against amd and I own two fx cpus, a 4350 and a 8300. Both are great cpu's, but they are so old at this point, it would be like running out and getting a 2600k for a brand new pc, just not worth it. Also an i5 6500 with an h110 mini itx board will solve your sff problem, just saying.
 
And if you REALLY WANT AMD, am4 is coming up in the next few months and those cpus if anywhere near rumor, would be definitely worth looking into

It's all return on investment. The longer they can keep a product in the top spot the more return they get. So for example, haswell first had its laptop series. It was the best mobile cpu intel had. Then they came out with desktop haswell to further expand sales of haswell based chips. And then broadwell mobile cpus came to replace the haswell mobile cpus. But now there is another area for haswell to spread to, the server platform. And everytime a new server arch comes out, an enthusiasts line comes, hence why by the time they get the enthusiasts line out, it falls in the next gen name scheme,  like the 5000 series was broadwell and haswell e, and the 6000 series is skylake and broadwell e. 

dude windows update bends everyone over

The same thing happened to me when upgrading to crimson and I am on a stock 290x (the 290/x has a higher power draw and worse heat problems than the 390/x). I went from low 90's to high 70's without changing a thing. I think they just found a way to make the cards consume less power on a bios level or something. 

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