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for overclocking on the cheap a cm hyper 212 or cryorig h7, for the best cooling performance lookup cpu cooler reviews for the noctua nh-d15 and pick anything that competes that you like the look of. If you can get a used i7 4770k or 4790k for cheap then that would be a good cpu boost, not really worth buying new though, and I'd suggest a 1070 if you want to keep up with modern AAA titles at max graphics, even OC'd I'm having to turn off some things to maintain that 60fps mark while I save up for a gsync monitor...a 580 8gb will work if you don't mind lowering those settings when needed though

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On 17. 5. 2017 at 9:19 PM, elis said:

How about getting another 970 for 2-way SLI ?

Would that be actually beneficial compared to 580 8GB or 1070 ?

On 17. 5. 2017 at 10:22 PM, Damascus said:

Keep an eye out for second hand a 4790k/4770k, they will extend the life of your PC even further and will cost very little

As I saw in Battlefield 1 it being CPU hungry game (CPU is at 100% most of the time while being boosted to 3,7GHz from 3,5GHz) this may not be a bad idea in the end

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2 minutes ago, Damascus said:

I'd get a 1070 + 4790k if you can

Agree, that can be a dual 7 kit

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1 hour ago, Toyshikate said:

Would that be actually beneficial compared to 580 8GB or 1070 ?

Well, I can't tell you that, because I don't have the means to test, but was just bringing up the idea. Maybe you could save some money that way and have a very good video quality, being that the 970 itself is a very good GPU.

You could ask Linus to do a review on that :P 

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