Sonicking157

I like that Idea a lot. Thank you!

One comes out of the box with a stock overclock so that is why the price is inflated.

Yeah, the only difference is the out of the box clock speed. And I suspect the more expensive card is trying to milk a little more money out of people because $80 USD for a 40MHz bump is... wot.

The clock speed is different, I was looking for a 1070 from Asus and there were different versions of the same cards. 8G, A8G and O8G. I think that these were the ones but i may be wrong. Anyway, so the O8g card was less expensive that the normal 8G one at the time i checked but chacking just now, it seems to have increased. The explanation for why it was cheaper before would probably just be supply and demand. But right now it looks like most prices for GPU's are not quite where they are supposed to be just yet so i recommend you wait until things get back to normal if you were planning to buy one

Just get the cheaper one is the answer to your actual question. They will both boost higher than their advertised clock speeds anyways.

You're perfectly fine! My monitor is 1080p 60hz (I plan on upgrading my GPU and then monitor down the line) and your ideas and insight are very important and will help a lot. When I get home from work I will be testing out everything you said in your post. (I didn't know that about draw distance, thank you!) as for my target FPS, I just want to make it more stable instead of the wide jump range (50-100+) which I'm sure doing what you said will fix that no problem. You've been a great help thank you so much!
 

With the CPU in such low use now (which I am glad to hear about!) you can probably turn up the settings on the CPU side of things, like post-processing and effects. On the other hand, if the CPU usage is low and you're still not hitting your target fps, it is more obvious that the GPU is overloaded. Anti-Aliasing, texture quality, and draw distance are all very GPU heavy. Specifically VRAM heavy. Putting them all on ultra most likely is causing them all to fight over the presumably 8GB you have available. Another important thing to note is that nowhere in this thread have you mentioned your monitors native resolution and refresh rate. (or the resolution at which you are playing PUBG on) The higher the resolution, the more VRAM is going to be used, which is already stretched thin with your current settings.
 
Also, lesser talked about is the resolution scaling feature in PUBG, which you should definitely keep at 100, as anything above is just wasting VRAM for a negligible sharpness increase, (kind of like a different style of AA) and anything lower will increase fps slightly but make everything a blurry mess. It also adds more work to the whole process in general. I suggest maybe dropping texture quality a little bit, and distance down a lot. It wastes a lot of resources viewing all that grass for miles out, and offers little to no benefit in game. large objects, including bushes and trees, as well as other players, will always be visible regardless of the distance setting, as many reddit users have figured out. (unless they are going to change that at some point) Very Low or Low makes it easier to see players out at a distance and frees up more VRAM. Also, it's your choice on AA. Personally, I don't particularly care for the type of AA that PUBG defaults to. TAA I think... but MSAA is waaay better and sharper. Luckily you can simulate this yourself by actually jacking up the screen scale to 120+ and turning the actual AA way down. Kind of a VRAM tradeoff. Play with it and see what looks better to you and what the trade-off is. if you come to a point where you can raise GPU-dependent settings some more, maybe stick with as much texture bumps as you can before the fps drops kick in.
 
I hope this helps. Let us know what works out the best, and I apologize if this post is a mess. I am up waaaay later than I should be and am a little out of it, haha.

Hello! I just installed the 4790k with my new H110i and played a few rounds of pubg. My settings for the game are:
Screen Mode - Fullscreen
Anti-Aliasing - Ultra 
Post Processing - Low
Shadows - Low
Textures - Ultra 
Effects - Low
Foliage - Very Low
View Distance - Ultra
Motion Blur & VSync off
I averaged around 80-FPS going as high as 100+-FPS in some areas and as low as 55-FPS in others. I'm sure if I crank back some of my settings I could see more consistent high FPS results but I'm very happy with how everything is now. If you're curious about package temps, they were around 45-50C (with the pre-installed thermal paste from corsair. I'm about to change it.) under a 30% load from the game. 

Remove top intake and you are fine.

I currently have an i5-4460 and a GTX 1060 (3GB) and I can say that you are being way too ambitious with your settings and that CPU. Before the latest patches for PUBG, running everything on the lowest possible settings 100% maxed out my CPU at all times and I was unable to ever hit 120fps. (my tv is 120Hz 1080p) I tried putting things on ultra and it was a joke. Even after the patches/updates, my cpu isn't completely capped out, now it is usually 70~80% at all times, but putting everything on ultra is still an absurd notion that I would never try again. I can't even hit 60 reliably like that. I am glad to hear you are upgrading to the 4790K, because that is what I am about to do in the coming weeks. I would really appreciate it if you could give us an update on PUBG performance with the 4790K.
 
My advice for now, though, is to play with your settings a little and accept that not *every* setting needs to be on ultra. It doesn't matter how nice something looks if your fps is so choppy that you can't reliably spot or track an enemy.

PUBG is quite poorly optimized at the moment, running everything on ultra is just asking for trouble.
 
For the smoothest gameplay, try:
Screen Mode - Fullscreen
Anti-Aliasing - Very Low or Ultra (Use Reshade for AA if you put it on Very Low, otherwise use Ultra. Anything in between and things get blurry and it makes it hard to see people in the distance)
Post Processing - Very Low/Low
Shadows - Low (Maybe Very Low, but they look pretty bad)
Textures - Depends on your VRAM, <4GB use Low, 4GB use Medium, >4GB High/Ultra (If you use High/Ultra with 4GB VRAM you may get lag when opening your inventory)
Effects - Very Low/Low
Foliage - Very Low
View Distance - Highest you can while keeping decent framerates. Doesn't affect how far people/vehicles will render, just LOD update distance.
Motion Blur & VSync off
 

Your motherboard usually is your best option with the built in fan control options. If you have 3 pin fans though fan controllers such as the NZXT Grid+ V2 or if you want to stick with Corsair link the Commander Mini are good options. 

H100i v2 is more than enough. You could go icy diamond or arctic silver 5, those are usually my go-to's when it comes to overclocking.

I'd use this: http://www.thermal-grizzly.com/en/products/16-kryonaut-en

120gb should be more than enough imo, just put your OS and main programs (browsers etc) onto it, all other files onto your hdd.
 
Before you look at my signature and say "well you've got 600+gb in ssd's" it's cause they were on a very good sale when i bought them  

Glad I'm upgrading then.

Yeah, I've come to understand that haha. You got it I'll give you an update sometime this week after I install the CPU. 

yah the main upgrade in performance going from the 4790K to the 7700K at the same clocks is the upgrade to DDR4, which isnt super segnificant and definatly not worth the cost. used I7 4790Ks can go for $250 or lower and he already has the motherboard, RAM and cooler so its just a drop in swap

Why Upgrade? The CPU Is still good, but maybe another 8Gigs of Ram would be nice to have. Also, maybe a bigger SSD? But if you want to upgrade these components, go on, have fun!

grab an I7 4790K and a 1070/1080

You want more performance, but what's wrong with the performance you have already? What are you intending to do? Upgrading for the lulz doesn't really do you much. And upgrading on the presumption your daily driver apps will also increase in performance won't really do much because those apps run at full speed on potatoes.
 
But otherwise, if you're dead set on those parts, get faster RAM since Ryzen likes faster RAM.

totally agree. new gen of RAM and CPU doesnt give as much improvement as just have a 4790k and overclock it.

Ah wait, scratch that. The i7 5775C wasn't the one I was looking for.

It's on Broadwell (not that much of a difference, but there is one), it has L4 cache and better intergrated graphics.

no problem, i have one and its great. if you get the late batch chips they can get to 5GHz even  its a much better buy then getting a 1600 or whatever if you already have the motherboard