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I currently have a fairly robust Work/Battle station. I’m a digital designer so I run a handful of Adobe CC apps when I have to work at home and game/watch stuffs otherwise. My neighborhood gets access to gigabit next month so was like F-YEAH 4K TV Time!!!!!! The room is where I watch Netlix/Crunchyroll/HBO/Sports etc. . . .  so I planned on mounting a 4k TV above my 3 1440p surround monitors. But then Nvida was like . . . TITAN X. So do I get a 4k TV for the man cave or get a TITAN X and get the TV at a later date?

 

I’m running a Strix 970, is that card even beast enough to run 3x 1440P monitors and a 4k TV anyway?

 

First world problems . . . . .

 

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May your framerates be high, and your temperatures low my brothers and sisters. . . 

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The 970 should be able to run them all for general use.

 

Do you really need a 4K tv for that stuff? I'd say 1440p is enough lol

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The 5930K has 40 CPU lanes. Downgrade it to a 5820K, and buy a second 970 please.

A single 970 will not be able to push triple 1440P, especially with the VRAM issues.

 

Either that, or ditch the 4k television and buy a Titan X, or two 980's.

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Left monitor is typically Work email, Personal email, and windows explorer windows

 

Center monitor is an Adobe App, or game or whatever I’m actually doing

 

Right monitor is typically two or three chrome browsers or whatever I’m streaming

 

So the TV would host sports / movies and leave the right monitor for browser windows . . . this is a serious issue!

May your framerates be high, and your temperatures low my brothers and sisters. . . 

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The 5930K has 40 CPU lanes. Downgrade it to a 5820K, and buy a second 970 please.

A single 970 will not be able to push triple 1440P, especially with the VRAM issues.

 

Either that, or ditch the 4k television and buy a Titan X, or two 980's.

this is some decent advice.

We can't Benchmark like we used to, but we have our ways. One trick is to shove more GPUs in your computer. Like the time I needed to NV-Link, because I needed a higher HeavenBench score, so I did an SLI, which is what they called NV-Link back in the day. So, I decided to put two GPUs in my computer, which was the style at the time. Now, to add another GPU to your computer, costs a new PSU. Now in those days PSUs said OCZ on them, "Gimme 750W OCZs for an SLI" you'd say. Now where were we? Oh yeah, the important thing was that I had two GPUs in my rig, which was the style at the time! They didn't have RGB PSUs at the time, because of the war. The only thing you could get was those big green ones. 

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The 5930K has 40 CPU lanes. Downgrade it to a 5820K, and buy a second 970 please.

A single 970 will not be able to push triple 1440P, especially with the VRAM issues.

 

Either that, or ditch the 4k television and buy a Titan X, or two 980's.

 

I think he already has the rig, but I defiantly agree that one 970 is not good enough, get 2 970's not a Titan X. 

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The 5930K has 40 CPU lanes. Downgrade it to a 5820K, and buy a second 970 please.

A single 970 will not be able to push triple 1440P, especially with the VRAM issues.

 

Either that, or ditch the 4k television and buy a Titan X, or two 980's.

 

I got the better CPU cause I thought it would help with Premiere, Illustrator, Photoshop and the other Creative apps I run (typically at the same time). Was that a mistake?

May your framerates be high, and your temperatures low my brothers and sisters. . . 

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I got the better CPU cause I thought it would help with Premiere, Illustrator, Photoshop and the other Creative apps I run (typically at the same time). Was that a mistake?

Yeah, it was.

The only difference between the 5930K and the 5820K is about $250 and 12 PCI-E lanes.

As far as performance goes, there is 0 difference.

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I got the better CPU cause I thought it would help with Premiere, Illustrator, Photoshop and the other Creative apps I run (typically at the same time). Was that a mistake?

 

Yes, it will preform the same as a 5820K.

Main Gaming PC (new): HP Omen 30L || i9 10850K || RTX 3070 || 512GB WD Blue NVME || 2TB HDD, 4TB HDD, 8TB HDD ||  750W P2 ||  16GB HyperX Black DDR4

Main Gaming PC (old, still own) : Intel Core i7 7700K @5.0Ghz || GPU: GTX 1080 Seahawk EK X || Motherboard: Maximus VIII Impact || Case: Fractal Design Define Nano S || RAM : 32GB Corsair Vengeance LPX 

Cooling: EK XRES D5 100mm || Alphacool ST30 280mm w/ Vardars || Alphacool ST30 240mm w/ Vardars || Swiftech 3/8 x 1/2'' Lok-Seal Compressions || Swiftech EVGA Hydrocopper Block || Primochill Advanced LRT Orange || Distilled Water

Folding@Home Rig: 2x X5690s @4.6Ghz || GPUs: 2x Radeon HD 7990 || Motherboard: EVGA SR-2 || Case: Corsair 900D || RAM: 48GB Corsair Dominator GT 2000Mhz CL9

Ethereum Mining Rig: Pentium G4400 || Gigabyte Z170X-UD5 TH || 2x GTX 1060s (Samsung & Hynix) 1x GTX 1070 (Micron), 2x RX480s BIOS modded (Samsung), 1x R9 290X 8GB, 1x GTX 1660 Super = ~ 195 Mh/s

Peripherals: 3x U2412M (5760x1200), 1x U3011 (2560x1600) || Logitech G710 (Cherry Blues) || Logitech G600 || Brainwavz HM5 with @Gofspar Mod 

Laptop: Dell XPS 15 || "Infinity Edge" 4K IPS Screen || i7 7700HQ || GTX 1050 || 16GB 2400Mhz RAM 

 

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So do the more PCI Lanes only give me a performance boost when I run multiple cards in SLI?  Meaning that adding another 970 gives me the most bang for my buck vs a single Titan X?

May your framerates be high, and your temperatures low my brothers and sisters. . . 

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