Advice on a GPU upgrade

[Rayzioz]

Hi All,

 

I'm thinking of upgrading my monitor to this nice looking monitor "ASUS PG349Q UWQHD 120hz G-Sync IPS 34in Monitor" 

 

My current build consists of GTX 970 in SLI. an i5-4690k with an accompanying microATX motherboard of that generation.

now, to run games (Far Cry, the new Borderlands, Witcher, the new tomb raider) in 3440x1440 at over 60FPS (around 100 would be better, after that I can't really tell the difference) I think 970 SLI is probably not good enough?

 

I'm thinking of upgrading to a second hand 1080ti or something in that range, and pretty sure that should do the job would my cpu be a bottleneck for these games? don't want to start upgrading the cpu/mobo/ram that's almost the entire computer.

 

would you reccomend any other Nvidia gpu for what I'm trying to achieve?

 

many thanks in advance.

 

Ray

[NelizMastr]

The main issue with SLI is that you can count on the fact that current and future games won't properly support it. Multi-GPU is dead.

 

Your CPU will also need an upgrade. 4 cores without any hyperthreading is no longer enough, the minimum step up would be an i5-9400F, although the Ryzen 2600 and 3600 are much better deals overall.

[Dtrojan]

I don't know about you but where I live a second hand 1080ti is way too overpriced, might as well get a rtx 2080 super brand new. I'm no expert though, maybe you won't need one that powerful. 

[Rayzioz]

8 minutes ago, NelizMastr said:

The main issue with SLI is that you can count on the fact that current and future games won't properly support it. Multi-GPU is dead.

 

Your CPU will also need an upgrade. 4 cores without any hyperthreading is no longer enough, the minimum step up would be an i5-9400F, although the Ryzen 2600 and 3600 are much better deals overall.

yeah I feel like multi GPU died with the introduction of the GTX 10xx series a year after i planned and built my build for SLI upgrades.

 

in this case I might as well save up a bit more for now, wait to see if Ray tracing becomes main stream (if the PS5 will use it i'm sure more games will have it) and get a solid RTX card couple years down the line. 

 

[VEXICUS]

I'll recommend aib versions of 5700xt, if that 1080ti isn't available.