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So i currently have an i7 4890k (since 4years) and a Gtx 1080 with 16Gb Ram 1600Mhz. I'm having an issue where I get perferomance drop in alot of games I play. recently Farcry 5 it gets unplayable when fps drop from 100 to 40... I asked elsewhere about suggestion and everyone says My CPU is holding behind the 1080, or Ram is too slow. What do you guys think? Does an i7 4790k bottleneck a gtx 1080? And would the i7 8700k be a good upgrade if so. Thanks in advance. 

Windows 10 - Aorus GTX 1080 - i7 4790k @4.4GHz - 16GB RAM 1600MHz - PSU Corsair C650M - MOBO Asus Maximus Hero VI

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11 minutes ago, Jeki155550 said:

So i currently have an i7 4890k (since 4years) and a Gtx 1080 with 16Gb Ram 1600Mhz. I'm having an issue where I get perferomance drop in alot of games I play. recently Farcry 5 it gets unplayable when fps drop from 100 to 40... I asked elsewhere about suggestion and everyone says My CPU is holding behind the 1080, or Ram is too slow. What do you guys think? Does an i7 4790k bottleneck a gtx 1080? And would the i7 8700k be a good upgrade if so. Thanks in advance. 

the 4890k is still pretty good, but the RAM speed seems to be the issue.

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As @ZcanKal said get some higher speed ram and OC your 4790k

|| CPU: I7 6950X @4.6 (1.35V) || Cooler: CUSTOM EK LOOP || Motherboard: ASUS RAMPAGE V EDITION 10

|| GPU: 2x Vega 64 Strix OC @1762 / 1100 MHz || Memory: 16GB G.Skill Royal RGB 3200 Mhz ||

HDD: Segate Barracuda 3TB || SSD: Samsung 970 Evo 512 GB || PSU: Corsair HX 1200 W || Case: Fractal Design Define R6 Gunmetal || Fans: Corsair HD120 (x4) / BeQuiet Silent Wings 3 (x4) || Monitor: ACER XF27HU ||

Second Monitor: BENQ RL2455HM || Mouse: Logitech G502 Pretus Core || Keyboard: Logitech G810 Orion Spectrum || Headphones: Sennheiser IE80 ||

 

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28 minutes ago, ZcanKal said:

the 4890k is still pretty good, but the RAM speed seems to be the issue.

Why would it be ram speed? As long as the timings are not loose it should be fine.

Insert ram related question here: https://linustechtips.com/main/topic/1197132-setting-ram-speed-xmp-docp-for-dummies/

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