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Go to solution Solved by Belgarathian,

The 970 would be a bottleneck, but the 4790k can drive any GPU on the market so.... Titan X? 

 

It just comes down to the following:

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  • Resolution
  • Games (RTSs are sometimes are more CPU bound)
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I have a 4790k non overclocked processor, and i was wondering what would be the best Graphics card for it? currently i have a 970, but i feel like the card is draggin the 4790k down.

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that CPU can feed any GPU you can think of.

What screen resolution are you using?

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I have a 4790k non overclocked processor, and i was wondering what would be the best Graphics card for it? currently i have a 970, but i feel like the card is draggin the 4790k down.

The best card you can afford, It's not dragging your 4790k down.

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that CPU can feed any GPU you can think of.

What screen resolution are you using?

I genreally use 1920x1080

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i use a 980ti with mine and it completely destroy 1440p gaming.

I genreally use 1920x1080

GTX 970 is good for that resolution, any plan on upgrading your monitor?

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I have a 4790k non overclocked processor, and i was wondering what would be the best Graphics card for it? currently i have a 970, but i feel like the card is draggin the 4790k down.

You're fine right now, but if you REALLY want to upgrade then:

 

390X - MSI or Sapphire

Fury X

980ti - Galax, Gigabyte, MSI, ASUS, EVGA. 

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980ti or nothing

| CPU: Core i7-8700K @ 4.89ghz - 1.21v  |  Motherboard: Asus ROG STRIX Z370-E GAMING  |  CPU Cooler: Corsair H100i V2 |
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If you're trying to push 144 Hz then either a 980 Ti or a second 970 wouldn't be a bad upgrade. You definitely have the CPU to be targeting those kind of framerates.

 

You should also see how far you can push your RAM, because two 970s or a 980 Ti will be strong enough that your 4790k will often be the limiting factor in pushing 144 fps, so you can probably extract some more performance out of your cpu by OC'ing the ram. 

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