An i5 4590 with GTX 980 OR i5 4690k OC'ed with GTX 970 ?

Striker-SoS · Sep 23, 2015

i will bulid a rig sooner so witch one is better for "Gaming"

1- i5 4590 + ASUS H81M-A LGA1150 MBO + gtx 980
2- i5 4690k + ASROCK z97 extreme 4 MBO + CRYORIG R1 ultimate dual tower heatsink CPU cooler + gtx 970

wich is the best for gaming ?

AdriansNetwork · Sep 23, 2015

What res are you playing at?

Striker-SoS · Sep 23, 2015

1920 X 1080 and i have another old one that iam not willing to use it wich is 1366 X 768

maddogfargo · Sep 23, 2015

Both will work great for 1080p or 1440p. GPU is more important than CPU for gaming and those 2 CPUs are not far apart performance wise. I would go for the 980 build.

PS3toPC · Sep 23, 2015

Striker-SoS :

I say option 2 is the wisest, infact im doing it now. Ican run everygame at the highest at 1080p, whenever i get 60fps or not depends but games like battlefield 4 are a solid 60fps with V-Sync (60Hz).

Go for option 2 by far, i dont think the I5 4590 will be able to handle the 980, so there might be some hold backs. (I'd hate to use the term bottlenecking... so i won't).

3Dpig · Sep 23, 2015

Striker-SoS :

I would go with option 2 for 1080p gaming.

AdriansNetwork · Sep 23, 2015

Me too, option two is the way to go. GTX 980 is way overkill and might be restricted by the Intel 4590.

Compuser10165 · Sep 23, 2015

Go for option two. Also, I would personally pick an R9 390 instead of the gtx 970. Why? If you are going for the r9 390: Even if you have a 1080p monitor you can use virtual super resolution to play at 1440p or even 4K on some title so the extra vram will be beneficial (altough it isn't powerful enough to use 8gb of vram, it can use more than 4gb at 1080p on certain games). ALSO GCN architecture is more optimised for Directx 12 because Mantle was used for the development of DX 12 (can use asynchronous compute as opposed to Nvidia). Also you can overclock the i5 4690k so you wouldn't feel cpu limited (in games).

maddogfargo · Sep 23, 2015

Compuser10165 :

Good point about DX12.

R9 390 will use a little more power and run a little hotter/louder but perform better and usually cost just a little less.

Compuser10165 · Sep 23, 2015

The R9 390 only consumes 40-60w more than the gtx 970, and if you pick a good model (e.g. MSI R9 390 TwinFrozr V) it will be quiet (sometimes even quieter than some gtx 970's).

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