Setup upgrades

[Yoola]

As holiday season is closing in, I'm looking for your thoughts about upgrading my current setup. 

 

Current specifications are following:

CPU: Intel Core i7 4770k @ 4.6GHz 1.28V - Delidded 

GPU: iChill X4 Nvidia GeForce GTX 1070  

CPU Cooler: Noctua NH-D15 

Motherboard: Gigabyte Z87X-UD3H 

RAM: 16GB HyperX Fury 1866MHz

Case: Fractal Design Define S

Fans: 6x Fractal Design Dynamic GP-14

PSU: Corsair RM550x Fully Modular 

SSD: Samsung 860 EVO 500GB + Samsung 840 EVO 120GB

HDD: Seagate Barracuda 1TB 

Screens: Dell S2417DG (1440p, 165Hz, G-SYNC) + LG 22EA63 (1080p 60Hz IPS)

Keyboard: Logitech G810 

Mouse: Logitech G403 

Speakers: Logitech Z333 

Headset: HyperX Cloud II 
Webcam: Logitech C920 

Microphone: Blue Yeti

https://pcpartpicker.com/b/kKq48d

 

 

In current state of mind, most likely option is to just slap a 1080Ti and call it a day. 

What would you do?

[spacehamster]

i would say get a 8700k if ya not going to do streaming and editing all time. or 2700x if ya stream and edit. no point getting 1080ti cos it would bottleneck with the cpu. 

[Brooksie359]

Get the 1080ti is probably what I would do. At 1440p you will still be gpu bottlenecked so no worries about the cpu. 

[Yoola]

1 minute ago, Brooksie359 said:

Get the 1080ti is probably what I would do. At 1440p you will still be gpu bottlenecked so no worries about the cpu. 

I mean eventually after the GPU, time will close for a CPU aswell, so there's gonna be a lot of options then. 

[spacehamster]

3 minutes ago, Brooksie359 said:

Get the 1080ti is probably what I would do. At 1440p you will still be gpu bottlenecked so no worries about the cpu. 

the cpu would be a bottleneck masively. there's lots of choice on cpu but there are only a couple gpus better than 1070

[DocSwag]

Honestly it looks solid. Best I could think is maybe wait for black friday and grab a 1080 ti or 2080 or something

[Yoola]

1 minute ago, spacehamster said:

the cpu would be a bottleneck masively. there's lots of choice on cpu but there are only a couple gpus better than 1070

maybe a bit of a overstatement with the bottleneck. 

[Brooksie359]

1 minute ago, spacehamster said:

the cpu would be a bottleneck masively. there's lots of choice on cpu but there are only a couple gpus better than 1070

Do you have a 1080ti and a 1440p monitor? Because I do and at 1440p the cpu is hardly the issue for 99% of the games especially with a 4th gen i7 

[lmeneses]

12 minutes ago, spacehamster said:

the cpu would be a bottleneck masively. there's lots of choice on cpu but there are only a couple gpus better than 1070

the cpu will not be a massive bottleneck lmao; however @Yoola you will probably want to (and im sure you intend to) upgrade your cpu down the line 

[spacehamster]

7 minutes ago, Brooksie359 said:

Do you have a 1080ti and a 1440p monitor? Because I do and at 1440p the cpu is hardly the issue for 99% of the games especially with a 4th gen i7 

i have a ryzen 7 2700x and 1080ti and a 1440p monitor + 4k monitor. and i know that owning a i7 4770k for 2 months unitl i got the 2700x  there was a rerally big fps incease 30-50 fps in gta and Dragon Ball Fighter Z

[Fasauceome]

12 minutes ago, spacehamster said:

the cpu would be a bottleneck masively. there's lots of choice on cpu but there are only a couple gpus better than 1070

No definitely not massively. There's a pretty good performance gain to putting a 1080 ti with a 4770k over a 1080, so it's still worth getting

 

IMO at that frequency a 1080 ti works really well

[Brooksie359]

1 minute ago, spacehamster said:

i have a ryzen 7 2700x and 1080ti and a 1440p monitor + 4k monitor. and i know that owning a i7 4770k for 2 months unitl i got the 2700x  there was a rerally big fps incease 30-50 fps in gta and Dragon Ball Fighter Z

Did you even overclock the i7? I find that hard to believe as I own the 1080ti and have never been close to being cpu bottlenecked at 1440p unless I turned down the settings. At 1440p highest settings I highly doubt that. I also have a friend how had that exact setup and he no issues what so ever. I mean I guess GTA might make sense as it's very cpu heavy but even then it's also very gpu heavy. 

[spacehamster]

49 minutes ago, Brooksie359 said:

Did you even overclock the i7? I find that hard to believe as I own the 1080ti and have never been close to being cpu bottlenecked at 1440p unless I turned down the settings. At 1440p highest settings I highly doubt that. I also have a friend how had that exact setup and he no issues what so ever. I mean I guess GTA might make sense as it's very cpu heavy but even then it's also very gpu heavy. 

yeah i had it 4.4ghz with a corsair h100i

[Brooksie359]

2 minutes ago, spacehamster said:

yeah i had it 4.4ghz with a corsair h100i

4.4 seems kinda low tbh. they are running at 4.6 so that would make a good bit of difference. the i7 will do fine with the 1080ti and it the best upgrade as a cpu upgrade would net 0 performance increase where as the gpu would be a big upgrade. I know my friend had his running at 4.7 so that might be why he never had an issue with it bottle-necking. also it is good to note that slight bottlenecks arent bad because they will happen is basically any build in certain scenarios.