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So I have a pretty nice pc right now that I built last year but with the release of the new gtx series I was thinking of upgrading.   I am currently running a gigabyte GA-990-ud3 motherboard with an FX9590 cpu 16gb of ram and an EVGA gtx 980 ti hybrid, and a corsair 750w gold power supply.    I am wondering if it would benefit me to upgrade the 980 ti to two gtx 1070's in sli and upgrade to a 1000w power supply to allow for all the extra equipment.   Also, the lest cost efficient way is to scrap the system and part it out and rebuild with an i7 6700k, two 1070, 850w psu, and asus Z170 mobo.  I am still new to pc building so I figured to ask the community what they would recommend.    I know its costly to start from scratch, but I have a good job and could get a small loan to build it.   I mainly play games on an asus 4k monitor and do some basic video editing for my wife, but I want to dive deeper into editing so I want to allow room with the two 1070's.   Thanks for you help and advice in advance. 

 

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Yes. You need new mobo, new ram and new cpu. FX are old. Though if you want to keep RAM from previous build you could go with Haswell i7 4790k

Why 2x1070? Why not single 1080 or wait for a 1080 Ti?

No need for that much PSU. 750w would still be fine even for 1080 in SLI

 

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I suggest you to upgrade to an X99 platform rather than upgrading your GPU. Also, why not add another 980ti?

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