Vanquish 3 level 1 upgrade help

I think you should be able to run a gtx 1080 in there.I am no expert though but that is my opinion.

yes, you will bottleneck the 1080, unless you get the frequency running as high as is stable and thermally optimal (depending on your cooling capacity) by overclocking the cpu.   depends on the game, really, how bad the bottleneck will be (if at all).  if you have a "k" sku proc and you aren't oc'ing it you have wasted money and performance that is just lying there waiting for you to use it.  i mean, architecture differences/gains aside, it really comes down to frequency+IPC improvements in the architecture.  will an oc'd Skylake out perform an oc'd Haswell (at the same frequency)?  Yes.  that being said, it's not like you're moving from a 5 yrs old Sandy Bridge, so you're only getting like 5%-ish IPC improvement from the architecture differences.  you do get DMI 3.0 from the chipset with Skylake, which should improve throughput some.  it might be worth it for you to upgrade to Skylake/Z170 chipset.  whyh don't you buy the gpu first and test it out on your current system and see if you get the performance?  try various oc frequencies and see what it looks like in the games you play. 

you'll need to monitor the cpu and gpu usage during game play.  if you see the cpu usage % significantly above that of the gpu then you're probably playing a "cpu bound" game (meaning the performance is more on the cpu than the gpu) and can mean a gpu bottleneck is present.  you should see the gpu just sitting at a certain (lower) percentage, basically waiting on the cpu.  

Ya your psu will be fine.

try the 1080 I think you will be fine even with the bottleneck.

oc is easy, try a 41 - 43 multiplier and put the vcore around 1.2, disable turbo, then you need to test the the oc with stress programs I'm not allowed to mention on this board. if the pc does not crash or throw errors you are good, if it does raise the vcore a bit.

Always keep an eye out on temps when ocing and testing, if the temps go over 80c you need to stop the test and lower the oc settings.

I can't really help you with your oc to be honest, I constantly bang heads with DS about oc settings and now apps used to test, plus I have ocd and I will drive myself crazy getting the perfect oc, its like crack to me and I'm an addict, I have to consciously try and stay away from it Plus I can't even name apps I want to use.


BTW was it Alex that kept telling me its not a good idea to use linx to test temps? and here is DS tech 50 seconds in the video saying they run linx for 30 min to test temps?????

Edited by DST4ME - 19 Aug 2016 at 4:44am

@DST4ME, why are you bringing up old threads into this discussion? I thought we already discussed this?

The video you referenced was from 2014, it's now 2016, hardware and processes have changed since then.

We recommend customers run real world stability tests to see how temps will be during actual use, AIDA64 is a good stability stress test for this. Or, customers can do a video encoding test.

it's true that the higher you run your voltage and oc in general, the more cooling you need and the more careful you have to be running the more demanding stress tests. the main thing you want to make sure adaptive voltage control is off/set to manual for any stress testing, because if left on auto the voltage will just get out of control high and can cause damage.    

I just realized we responded to rb67 when he said 1080, you didn't.

Go with the 1060 you will be fine.

ssd over your hdd is a great idea but don't just pick any ssd, all ssds are not the same and there some bad ones out there. I would recommend the samsung right now they are boss in speed and quality IMHO. Keep in mind ssd will raise your boot/load speeds, read/write speeds/os speeds a bit, but in games and other stuff it will not do a thing as far as fps goes and things like that.

you don't need a lc cooler for the cpu, just get a good air cooler and you are good to go.

for gaming first thing to add would be gpu.

Go with 1060, rx480 is ok but 1060 is more powerful.

Well I have the 1060 on the way, went with the gigabyte windforce.Thanks guys for all the help! God bless!