3770k bottleneck 770 3 way sli?

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Luke Phillips

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Hey guys im running 2 770s in sli right now and a 3770k. Im running bf4 on 5760x1080 and i want 60fps on ultra. I am thinking of getting a third, but i was not sure if my 3770k will bottleneck them. I have full custom water cooling with over 700mm of radiator space, so what should I overclock to in order to prevent the bottleneck? Cheers :D
 
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I look at it this way, in gaming there is little to gain from anything over an OC I5 "K" CPU. Which puts the 3770K right at the top of gaming CPU's. What is stronger LGA 2011 hex cores do they give you anything in gaming? Not until they get multithreaded games to play with and we are not there yet http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/battlefield-4-graphics-card-performance,3634-10.html
So really if we want to talk about bottleneck then yes 3770K would not get the same fps as OC 3770K. It is all what we compare it with. Going Tri SLI is not going to...
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[strike]Your CPU isn't the problem, your MoBo might be as depending on its PCI memory lanes you could not get much of a boost on going to a 3-way SLI setup.[/strike]

EDIT: Nevermind, just saw that you have a Maximus V Extreme, you're good to go.
 
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Luke Phillips

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I am currently running a Maximus V Extreme. Will this hurt performance?

 
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Nope from the CPU side, I just edited my post.

On your profile you list a 800W PSU, you may want to change that to 1000W in order to get the 3-way SLI and the heavy overclocking you're going to do.
 
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I look at it this way, in gaming there is little to gain from anything over an OC I5 "K" CPU. Which puts the 3770K right at the top of gaming CPU's. What is stronger LGA 2011 hex cores do they give you anything in gaming? Not until they get multithreaded games to play with and we are not there yet http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/battlefield-4-graphics-card-performance,3634-10.html
So really if we want to talk about bottleneck then yes 3770K would not get the same fps as OC 3770K. It is all what we compare it with. Going Tri SLI is not going to yield the same performance increase as going to dual cards and the benefit of that has always been disputed. You might be better of selling the 770's and go 780 in SLI for the same results.

Here you can see Titans compared in both http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/NVIDIA/GeForce_GTX_Titan_SLI/22.html
 
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Luke Phillips

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I have 1050w, havent recently updated it though
 
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Luke Phillips

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I have 1050w, havent recently updated it though
 
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In benchmarks 3 way 770 is only 1 fps slower than 780 3 way in bf3 5760x1080. This benchmark is the main reason i went with the 770s and not the 780s for the extra $450+. Heres the link us.hardware.info/reviews/4632/7/geforce-gtx-700-series-sli-review-geforce-gtx-760770780-in-sli-and-3-way-sli-battlefield-3---5760x1080-+-frametimes
 
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