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New rig - Help needed

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Injen

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Well it's that time to upgrade. Out with the old in in with a new one.
Can't decide what to buy though.
Always been waiting for Skylake, but it did not give me that WOW factor as i thought.

Right now it leans against i7-6700K or i7-4790K.
OC will be a big factor, Watercooling and gaming.

So what do you guys say? I'm upgrading once every 3-4 years, so it has to some future proof.
 
defaultluser said:
Current specs?
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Mobo: ASUS P8Z77-V PRO
CPU: i7-3770K @ 4.7GHz
CPU Cooler: Custom WC loop
Memory: Corsair (2x8GB) CL10 2400MHz VENGEANCE PRO
GPU: XFX R7970 CF Black Ed 1200/1800
PSU: Corsair HX 850W PSU
HDD: Samsung SSD EVO Basic 840 250GB
 
Injen said:
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Mobo: ASUS P8Z77-V PRO
CPU: i7-3770K @ 4.7GHz
CPU Cooler: Custom WC loop
Memory: Corsair (2x8GB) CL10 2400MHz VENGEANCE PRO
GPU: XFX R7970 CF Black Ed 1200/1800
PSU: Corsair HX 850W PSU
HDD: Samsung SSD EVO Basic 840 250GB
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if you want to upgrade, you will be far of that by moving to haswell or skylake.. your only upgrade path is go straight with a high OC'd X99 chip. you will be better upgrading those GPUs instead the platform you are actually.
 
Injen said:
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Mobo: ASUS P8Z77-V PRO
CPU: i7-3770K @ 4.7GHz
CPU Cooler: Custom WC loop
Memory: Corsair (2x8GB) CL10 2400MHz VENGEANCE PRO
GPU: XFX R7970 CF Black Ed 1200/1800
PSU: Corsair HX 850W PSU
HDD: Samsung SSD EVO Basic 840 250GB
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Yup, this is why I asked!

You're fine on processor, ram, storage. If games are not performing as well as you'd like, you can upgrade to a GTX 980 Ti.

You might need more cores if you're streaming on Twitch, but otherwise you should be fine with the 3770k you have!
 
Post in the General Hardware subsection. There is a list of preliminary questions you should answer so others can better help you.
 
Yes mates. You might be right, but my two 7970 is not the bottleneck here. There's several games "especially" 64bit games that makes my CPU throttle before my GPU's

I know my current rig will last at least 1-2 year more without problems, but the satisfaction with builden a new setup is awsome :)
I already got a new R3 1000W PSU and a 850 Evo SSD lying around, so the plan is to keep going for a new rig.

defaultluser said:
You're fine on processor, ram, storage. If games are not performing as well as you'd like, you can upgrade to a GTX 980 Ti.
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Don't want to be any douchebag, but my 7970 CF setup is scoring around 17000 in 3DMark 11 which is just behind 980TI
The only problem is the 3GB limit whit my current setup :/
 
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Injen said:
Yes mates. You might be right, but my two 7970 is not the bottleneck here. There's several games "especially" 64bit games that makes my CPU throttle before my GPU's

I know my current rig will last at least 1-2 year more without problems, but the satisfaction with builden a new setup is awsome :)
I already got a new R3 1000W PSU and a 850 Evo SSD lying around, so the plan is to keep going for a new rig.



Don't want to be any douchebag, but my 7970 CF setup is scoring around 17000 in 3DMark 11 which is just behind 980TI
The only problem is the 3GB limit whit my current setup :/
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Yes and WTH mean firestrike in the real world? A hint? A shit.. a single 980TI will be a huge upgrade over your beloved 7970s.. why come to the forum and make a thread asking for help and then reply with a pedantic attitude?.. any game that your 4.7ghz mean a bottleneck will be the same as a haswell or skylake chip.. as you need a 4.5ghz+ haswell or skylake chip to achieve similar performance.. what game can you prove your CPU can be a bottleneck? I think you don't now too much about gaming referring to a CPU "throttling before the GPUs" don't be obtuse and upgrade those GPUs and you will receive huge performance gain. Again.. a OC'd 3770k is far of being a bottleneck to your cards and no other dual GPU configuration in the market.
 
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Yes and WTH mean firestrike in the real world? A hint? A shit.. a single 980TI will be a huge upgrade over your beloved 7970s.. why come to the forum and make a thread asking for help and then reply with a pedantic attitude?.. any game that your 4.7ghz mean a bottleneck will be the same as a haswell or skylake chip.. as you need a 4.5ghz+ haswell or skylake chip to achieve similar performance.. what game can you prove your CPU can be a bottleneck? I think you don't now too much about gaming referring to a CPU "throttling before the GPUs" don't be obtuse and upgrade those GPUs and you will receive huge performance gain. Again.. a OC'd 3770k is far of being a bottleneck to your cards and no other dual GPU configuration in the market.
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I will give you some "proof" in the morning mate, don't sweat it.
I came to this forum looking for answers regarding which CPU i should buy, and not if my old 7970's would do it.
And again, yes i know my old rig will serve it purpose several years, but i want a new rig. Don't know what's wrong with that? Give the money to the manufacturers so they can development new stuff is not to bad?......
And clock doesn't mean shit. My old i7 930 OC'ed to 4.2Ghz, but did not come near my 3770k at stock.

Whit that short story. I'm still looking for a new rig

And by all means. Show me where i've been pedantic.
They asked and i aswered.
 
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what im saying its, you can even have a loss of performance by "upgrading" to haswell or skylake, skylake may offer UP TO (in only few cases) 5-8% extra performance clock for clock vs your ivy bridge, so you need really to overclock way above your 4.7ghz to "feel" any upgrade, you want a new rig? your only upgrade path is add more cores to your system and that mean go with the X99 Route with any 5820K or 5930K or even 5960X if you really have the desire to spend money in a new machine.. im actually helping you to save some money and avoid in the future another "i've upgraded from ivy bridge to skylake im dissapointed" thread... I'll be waiting for that game where a 4.7ghz 3770K is a bottleneck to a couple of 7970 in Xfire =)
 
Your CPU is not a bottleneck on those 7970s. Period.

If you want more performance then you're going to want to upgrade the GPUs. Upgrading the CPU wont do squat.

If you just want to build a whole new rig, then answer the sticky questions.
 
Once again for GPU's I'd get 390/X in crossfire if you so wish
I upgraded from 7950 to 290X it was noticeable and throw in a 500gb Evo SSD
 
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