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By Spaulding
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Hi LTT,

Currently running this:

Gigabyte gtx 980
gigabyte z97x-gaming 7
intel i7-4790k 
corsair vengeance LP DDR3 1866MHz 8GB X2(16GB)

 

I spend a lot of time with an Oculus playing flight sims (digital combat sim and battle of Stalingrad). This is a bit challenging for my rig (I swear it started smoking a few times!) so I ordered a EVGA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti SC2. 

My concern is will the motherboard and or CPU causes any sort of bottleneck for the newer GPU? Trying to avoid a complete rebuild until to new GPUs are out.   

 

 

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It should be ok unless the games are relatively CPU bound. You could consider OCing the CPU tho

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With overclocking you'll be fine. You'll be quite heavily stressing the gpu first and foremost, and the overall IPC improvements per generation have been quite minor. If you can get a decent 4.4-4.6ghz overclock on your chip, it'll last for a long time.

 

I have a 6700K running at 4.6 and a 1080Ti, and at 4K I'm always gpu bound in anything relatively taxing. You'll have better experience in VR.

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