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[cz1]

Hey guys. New to the forums here. Looks like a great community

 

Setup Now:

FX 6300 Stock clocks

GTX 560TI

8gb 1600mhz

 

Obviously my computer wont be able to touch 4k. I'm looking at upgrading the GPU to the 970. I have been looking at benchmarks and for a single card on games I play, it gets roughly 30-40 fps(Source). Down the road I will eventually get a second to increase that. I wont be dedicating this rig 100% 4k resolution, it will only be on occasions. Will the 6300 be a huge bottleneck to a single 970? Down the road when I get the second 970 I know the 6300 will have to be upgraded, but can I get by with it for now?

[the jolly roger]

if you can live with 30fps at 4k, go for it, the fx will not bottleneck a single 970, but anyways OC as high as you can but if you throw in a second 970 i recommend switching to intel.

 

Edit: i forgot, WELCOME TO THE FORUMS hope you have fun here

 

Double Edit: i single 970 can run say like BF4 at 4k 30fps but at like medium settings, dont expect to crank stuff up to ultra.

[Lotus]

Depending on the game, that FX will be a problem. Also what MoBo do you currently have? That may prevent you from going with an SLI setup. You may consider completely ditching your AMD platform and going for an Intel platform with a pair of R9 290s in crossfire. That might be the cheapest way of getting a somewhat reasonable framerate, although you still wont max everything out. Your current plan is fine, but will cost a lot to get the end-goal of reasonable performance at 4k because you'll want a second GTX 970, and an intel board that supports SLI requires a Z97 chipset, and those boards are expensive. The overall cost is way higher than 2x 290s in crossfire in a locked i5 build.

[Dankirk]

instead of going SLI with 2 970s I'd take the 980 without SLI, since it will survive 4K easily (if you dont wanna wait for Titan 2/980 ti).

 

I'm running Dishonored 4K maxed with 60fps, WoW 4K maxed solid 60fps, and M-2033 1440p maxed 50-60fps (adaptive v-sync fcks up somehow), and I have a 4670K with 16GB of 1866MHz DDR3-RAM (never utilize the full pot tho)

 

Note however it's DSR, not sure if the graphics card work as hard in DSR as they do in true 4K, not looked it up.

 

why 1x 980 instead of 2x 970s? more power-saving, easier on the CPU and some games doesn't benefit that much from SLI, so I've heard.

[cz1]

So maybe something like this?

 

edit*

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

 

CPU: Intel Core i5-4690K 3.5GHz Quad-Core Processor  ($179.99 @ Micro Center) 

Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-Z97X-SLI ATX LGA1150 Motherboard  ($79.99) 

Video Card: Zotac GeForce GTX 980 4GB AMP! Extreme Edition Video Card  ($579.48 @ NCIX US) 

Total: $839.46

Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available

Generated by PCPartPicker 2014-11-25 14:12 EST-0500

 

 

Or even better, if I can get by with my 6300 with the 980 for a little longer, that would be awesome.

[Dankirk]

 

So maybe something like this?

 

edit*

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

 

CPU: Intel Core i5-4690K 3.5GHz Quad-Core Processor  ($179.99 @ Micro Center) 

Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-Z97X-SLI ATX LGA1150 Motherboard  ($79.99) 

Video Card: Zotac GeForce GTX 980 4GB AMP! Extreme Edition Video Card  ($579.48 @ NCIX US) 

Total: $839.46

Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available

Generated by PCPartPicker 2014-11-25 14:12 EST-0500

 

 

Or even better, if I can get by with my 6300 with the 980 for a little longer, that would be awesome.

 

that will work flawlessly, but I do recommend that you would overclock that 4690K, which you can do since it's better made than my 4670K.

I will however upgrade my  4670K to an 4790K (had really bad luck with the silicon lottery on this one)

my 980 STRIX however, max clock and didnt even touch the voltage, still passes a burn in

 

EDIT: sorry for slow answer