2x GTX 980 Ti in SLI + i5-6600K - is it ok?

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It will be a bottleneck. Get the i7. As you can see the new games like AC Syndicate, Battlefront Star Wars and Fallout 4, the i5 is a bottleneck. And you want to be doing 4k, no brainier.
 
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Hes right though, at 4k with nice settings your so gpu limited with current h/w a pentium shows little difference to an i7.

 
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Our game requires an Intel Core i7 Skylake or it won't run perfectly. And in the background you can almost hear the sound "sponsored by intel".
 
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While you might achieve 60 fps with an I5 + sli gtx 980ti and 61 fps with an I7 + sli gtx 980 ti, there's absolutely no point in paying the extra money. Especially 4k requires relatively little cpu power compared to gpu power. And if you're choosing an I7 + single gpu over an I5 + dual gpu, you're wuite definitely losing ~45+% in terms of framerate.
 
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After some consideration about it, it is wierd to spend $1300 on GPUs and $250 on a CPU. I will try to go for the i7-6700K for gaming now, even though many games take little influence from them. I saw what happened with AC: Syndicate on an i5 (4C, 4T) compared to an i7 (4C, 8T), and i don't want to have performance downgrades like that for spending $150 less on a CPU.

My old system has a 2008 Intel C2Q Q9550 @stock clock (2.8GHz), a Radeon R9 270 2GB and 6gigs of DDR2 @667MHz. I ran games like BF4 and The Witcher 3 both pretty much fine on it at high settings, 1920x1200. BF4 ran at 45-60fps (locked 60) and The Witcher 3 at 27-40 most of the time. The only issue was a lower frame rate going to 20-22 in Novigrad accompanied by stuttering, especially when it's just been loaded in, which didn't detract from the experience.

But, Watch_Dogs (And this isn't the only example, just the worst one) struggled to run at good frame rates even on Low, 1200P but i set it to a mix of Medium-High-Ultra, and dealt with really bad frame rates, which i don't want to have to do again. Anyway, using the mix, it ran at about 15-25fps in the city (horrible). Out in the countryside it was fine, however.
 
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Hey Guys. Sorry to hijack the thread somewhat, pls notify me if it's not appropriate.

I am in the same position as the OT. But I am also considering going for the X99 socket? Specifically the i7 5930k?
Would you recommend that CPU/socket of the i7 6700k as it boasts significantly more PCIE 3.0 lanes? Please do not regard value/money as that is sort of less important in this setup.

Thanks! :)
 
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Hijacking a thread is not allowed. Start a new thread. Thanks.
 
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