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Can a EVGA SuperNOVA 850 G2, 80+ GOLD 850W, Fully Modular is enough for a MSI GTX 1070 GAMING X SLI?

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20 minutes ago, Kevoh said:

Thank you for your thoughts. Hence, would it be more practical for me to upgrade my CPU first probably buying an I7 6700k SKYLAKE or find an MSI GTX 1080ti as an upgrade?

Thanks again!

While the i7 would be nice, unless you can find one for a good price I wouldn't bother. I see i7 3770K's go for over $150 and with a Ryzen 5 2600 or whatever Intel's current product lineup offers which they don't have any stock of currently at a similar price point, it's basically pointless to buy upgraded cpus for many older platforms. There's not really much of an upgrade path for many users since really all Intel has done is add more cores, more frequency and more threads of the same cpu. While those are all good improvements, you probably aren't going to see noticeable increases in performance in most games or at least anywhere near what a better video card would do with your current setup.

 

Now, if you plan to stream or do anything else which would really take advantage of the hyperthreading you could justify it but a newer platform should also be considered for the extra real cores. As far as your standard game, throwing a 1080ti at it will probably get the most out of your money.

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Can a EVGA SuperNOVA 850 G2, 80+ GOLD 850W, Fully Modular is enough for a MSI GTX 1070 GAMING X SLI?

I'm planning to add another card so that I could run SLI.

 

Currently running an Intel I5 6600k, 16gb RAM 2400Mhz, MSI M7 Z170A, MSI GTX 1070 GAMING X.

 

Thank you!

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16 minutes ago, Kevoh said:

Can a EVGA SuperNOVA 850 G2, 80+ GOLD 850W, Fully Modular is enough for a MSI GTX 1070 GAMING X SLI?

I'm planning to add another card so that I could run SLI.

 

Currently running an Intel I5 6600k, 16gb RAM 2400Mhz, MSI M7 Z170A, MSI GTX 1070 GAMING X.

 

Thank you!

 

Yes, the EVGA 850W G2 will be more than enough for two GTX 1070's in SLI.

 

I am using an EVGA 850W P2, and it can power two very power heavy R9-Fury (275W+ EACH) no problem.

Also have one GTX 1070 in a system with a EVGA 650W G2; entire system from the wall is less than 400W ... the last time I checked.

 

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Yeah, but if you haven't bought the other 1070 yet, dont because 2 cards is better than 1 and you could sell the current 1070 and with the money you'd use to get another, you could just get a 1080ti, also your cpu is a bottleneck so maybe upgrade that first.

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2 minutes ago, hconverse02 said:

Yeah, but if you haven't bought the other 1070 yet, dont because 2 cards is better than 1 and you could sell the current 1070 and with the money you'd use to get another, you could just get a 1080ti, also your cpu is a bottleneck so maybe upgrade that first.

Thanks for your comment. Regarding my CPU, would it run a GTX 1080TI without bottlenecking? I just saw this ad good for swapping cards...

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3 minutes ago, Kevoh said:

Thanks for your comment. Regarding my CPU, would it run a GTX 1080TI without bottlenecking? I just saw this ad good for swapping cards...

No but neither would 2x1070s...

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6 minutes ago, hconverse02 said:

No but neither would 2x1070s...

Ouch! Guess I'll be stuck using a single 1070 card :(

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22 minutes ago, Kevoh said:

Thanks for your comment. Regarding my CPU, would it run a GTX 1080TI without bottlenecking? I just saw this ad good for swapping cards...

Depends on the game, if the game is very poorly optimized, built on an old engine without multithreading in mind like CS:GO or just generally cpu heavy the 6600k definitely isn't going to hold up like a 8700k or 9700k. However you realistically should be seeing similar cpu performance in games to most Ryzen cpus. So no, you're not going to see any meaningful bottleneck. I've only found a couple games to remotely even bottleneck my X5675 which is pretty much a i7 980x or so.

 

I'd toss a used 1080ti at it over buying another 1070, it'll work great and since you have a Z170 board with a bit of overclocking to bring the cpu more in line with the like 5th refresh of your cpu that Intel just released you'll be fine for a few years at least cpu wise before stuff starts really needing the extra threads.

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1 minute ago, Slayer3032 said:

Depends on the game, if the game is very poorly optimized, built on an old engine without multithreading in mind like CS:GO or just generally cpu heavy the 6600k definitely isn't going to hold up like a 8700k or 9700k. However you realistically should be seeing similar cpu performance in games to most Ryzen cpus. So no, you're not going to see any meaningful bottleneck. I've only found a couple games to remotely even bottleneck my X5675 which is pretty much a i7 980x or so.

 

I'd toss a used 1080ti at it over buying another 1070, it'll work great and since you have a Z170 board with a bit of overclocking to bring the cpu more in line with the like 5th refresh of your cpu that Intel just released you'll be fine for a few years at least cpu wise before stuff starts really needing the extra threads.

Thank you for your thoughts. Hence, would it be more practical for me to upgrade my CPU first probably buying an I7 6700k SKYLAKE or find an MSI GTX 1080ti as an upgrade?

Thanks again!

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20 minutes ago, Kevoh said:

Thank you for your thoughts. Hence, would it be more practical for me to upgrade my CPU first probably buying an I7 6700k SKYLAKE or find an MSI GTX 1080ti as an upgrade?

Thanks again!

While the i7 would be nice, unless you can find one for a good price I wouldn't bother. I see i7 3770K's go for over $150 and with a Ryzen 5 2600 or whatever Intel's current product lineup offers which they don't have any stock of currently at a similar price point, it's basically pointless to buy upgraded cpus for many older platforms. There's not really much of an upgrade path for many users since really all Intel has done is add more cores, more frequency and more threads of the same cpu. While those are all good improvements, you probably aren't going to see noticeable increases in performance in most games or at least anywhere near what a better video card would do with your current setup.

 

Now, if you plan to stream or do anything else which would really take advantage of the hyperthreading you could justify it but a newer platform should also be considered for the extra real cores. As far as your standard game, throwing a 1080ti at it will probably get the most out of your money.

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1 hour ago, Kevoh said:

Can a EVGA SuperNOVA 850 G2, 80+ GOLD 850W, Fully Modular is enough for a MSI GTX 1070 GAMING X SLI?

I'm planning to add another card so that I could run SLI.

 

Currently running an Intel I5 6600k, 16gb RAM 2400Mhz, MSI M7 Z170A, MSI GTX 1070 GAMING X.

 

Thank you!

Running a Ryzen 7 2700X and Vega Frontier Edition off a 650W rn (want to pick up an 850W at some point for more headroom, my 1000W is in my SLI rig), you'll be fine with 850 for an i5 and 1070 Ti. 

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2 hours ago, Kevoh said:

Thanks for your comment. Regarding my CPU, would it run a GTX 1080TI without bottlenecking? I just saw this ad good for swapping cards...

If you could grab an i7-6700K and a 1080Ti, that shouldn't have any bottlenecks.

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