I lucked out this morning and snagged 2 1080 ti from Nvidia website. I plan on water-cooling them. I'm currently using a 4790k at 4.8ghz with a 1440p 144hz monitor. I didn't plan on ordering 2, but wife submitted order for me at home while I was at work and did 2 even though I said one and maybe another later for 4k 144hz when it comes soon. I know I know best wife ever.
Anyways, point is I want to upgrade cpu, but not sure if going to ryzen 8 core with low clocks compared to 4 core/8 thread is wise for gaming? Is that just what the hardware is moving to now? More cores and lower clocks for the future? I could wait until August +/- for Intel's offering which will also probably be 8+ cores. Should I just go ryzen and hope that gaming starts to use all those 8 cores and they work all the new cpu bugs out?
Anyways, point is I want to upgrade cpu, but not sure if going to ryzen 8 core with low clocks compared to 4 core/8 thread is wise for gaming? Is that just what the hardware is moving to now? More cores and lower clocks for the future? I could wait until August +/- for Intel's offering which will also probably be 8+ cores. Should I just go ryzen and hope that gaming starts to use all those 8 cores and they work all the new cpu bugs out?