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So I have an Athlon X4 760k that i have over-clocked to 4.6ghz. I run this with an R9 270X, but i want to upgrade my gpu because im frankly sick of AMD's awful drivers and crap performance in newer games with gameworks compared to Nvidia cards. I'm looking at buying a 780ti as I may upgrade from 1080p to 1440p in the future. Now my question is, would I be able to get away with keeping my Athlon with the 780ti or should I upgrade it? I don't really want to but I fear I will have to. If I do need to upgrade it what is the cheapest option for me? thanks in advance for any replies :)

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Well for a 780 Ti I would definitely recommend a different CPU.

But that would mean upgrade your motherboard too.

 

You could go cheap Intel board + i5 4440 or i5 4460.

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I think you might bottle neck your GPU cause of the cpu, im not sure tho

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So I have an Athlon X4 760k that i have over-clocked to 4.6ghz. I run this with an R9 270X, but i want to upgrade my gpu because im frankly sick of AMD's awful drivers and crap performance in newer games with gameworks compared to Nvidia cards. I'm looking at buying a 780ti as I may upgrade from 1080p to 1440p in the future. Now my question is, would I be able to get away with keeping my Athlon with the 780ti or should I upgrade it? I don't really want to but I fear I will have to. If I do need to upgrade it what is the cheapest option for me? thanks in advance for any replies :)

If you do upgrade to a gtx 780ti, it may bottleneck from your CPU.

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Buy a new motherboard+CPU first. You will see better FPS in new games that way. The 760k(even when overclocked) isnt strong enough to handle more than a 270x.

I would recommend waiting for the Zen architecture or getting a i5 now.

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