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Post Date: 2018-04-08
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    Posted: 08 Apr 2018 at 4:12pm
I have an 8 year old pc from digital storm, an i7-2600k which I have added a 980 ti graphic card. It was a great purchase and I have 8 great years with it, and looking for it to continue to be good for a few more years! I mainly play FFXIV on it on 2560x1600 resolution. With a few sliders turned down, I can get 70-80 fps. I monitored cpu and gpu usage with MSI Afterburner while I game and the gpu was usually at 99% while the cpu was usually around 20-25%. My question is if I upgrade my 980ti to a 1080 or 1080 ti will it vastly improve performance since it seems like the cpu is not bottlenecking anything?
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It certainly seem like it! A couple of cautions: right now, the GPUs are selling at a premium due to demand from the digital coin crowd. Also, you might want to hold up just a bit longer for the next Nvidia generation coming out this summer. You might get 1080 Ti performance from the new second tier card, or, you might see prices drop like a rock on the 1080 when the new ones hit. Just sayin'.
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Posts: 129 		  Quote Bensonc120 Quote  Post ReplyReply bullet Posted: 12 Apr 2018 at 3:20pm
Yup, if I upgrade it will be after new cards are released from Nvidia. I know the 1080 and 1080 ti are pretty good with 2k resolution so I am thinking of getting either the Asus or Dell 27 inch 2k gsync monitors.
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Posts: 129 		  Quote Bensonc120 Quote  Post ReplyReply bullet Posted: 07 May 2018 at 12:58pm
So I had some time and put my 1080 ti into my old i7-2600k and plug that into a gsync 144 hrz 2k resolution monitor just to see the difference between i7-2600k and the i7-8700 on Final Fantasy XIV. I ran the game and with my i7-8700 I was getting about 125-129 fps while with i7-2600k I was getting 114-119 fps. Not a big difference at all lol.
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Posts: 7330 		  Quote Cretae Quote  Post ReplyReply bullet Posted: 07 May 2018 at 9:14pm
Up until January, I was gaming on a i7-930 - the gen before yours - and I never saw the CPU bottleneck anything. DS oc'd it to 3.81. I think if you mostly just game, the gaming standard CPU at any given time will go at least 5-6 years, easy.
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Posts: 20391 		  Quote bprat22 Quote  Post ReplyReply bullet Posted: 08 May 2018 at 1:56am
I’m not surprised with the only 10% or so gain with newer 8700k.    I also still have an older, 7 year old Sandy Bridge , mine the 2500k and with it clocked to 4.2 is very capable with today’s cards.    CPUs get more features and faster interfaces like usb, pcie, etc with newer generation but gaming not so much.

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Posts: 129 		  Quote Bensonc120 Quote  Post ReplyReply bullet Posted: 08 May 2018 at 11:20pm
I definitely got good advice from the regulars back then to have my system stand the test of time for so long. The only things I needed to upgrade from a 7 year old rig was video card and monitor. Looking back I probably didn't need the 1000 power supply for SLI. I thought SLI would be the trend back then but now a lot of games aren't even optimized for SLI. A 600-650 power supply would've sufficed if I were to change anything from my original build.
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Yeah, back in the day, an sli setup that needed a much bigger psu and threw lots of heat was needed for high end gaming.   Not now..   

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Posts: 129 		  Quote Bensonc120 Quote  Post ReplyReply bullet Posted: 21 May 2018 at 8:53am
Looks like something is going on with the new Nvidia cards. I'm seeing prices drop on 1080 ti on Amazon. Picked up a brand new EVGA 1080 ti for $769. Maybe this means the new generation video cards are about to release?
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Posts: 7330 		  Quote Cretae Quote  Post ReplyReply bullet Posted: 21 May 2018 at 4:26pm
Could be. But I've also been hearing the bloom is off the rose for crypto-mining. Seems the itty bit of a coin you get for each success is so small, the power you use to get there is a major concern.
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