Best CPU for the Asus Z97-A Motherboard (intel&Invidia)

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Now currently i have the asus motherboard mentioned in the title along with two evga gtx 980 ti acx 2.0 sc edition running in SLi, and an intel 4790k CPU. I have done research looking up the compatible list of CPU's for my motherboard and got a pretty large list. And yes i know the 4790k is still a pretty decent CPU right now even with intel releasing its 6th generation processors, but with the genre of games i play being open sand box where my system is being taxed pretty heavily what would be the absolutely best cpu that my motherboard would be compatible with? Now i have looked into intels Broadwell Core i7-5775C CPU and have read mixed reviews. So again for the type of games i play (being again open sand box/open world etc) what would be the best CPU i could get that would obviously work with my motherboard?
 
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The 4790k is already the best CPU available for your motherboard. The i7 5775C doesn't offer any real performance improvements CPU side. What the 5775C does offer is much better integrated graphics, which you won't be using as you already have 2 980Tis in SLI. The better integrated graphics does come at a cost for the 5775C, the CPU is clocked a good deal lower than the 4790k and doesn't seem to overclock quite as well as its Haswell predecessor.

Bottom line is, unless you have a use for the improved integrated graphics, stick with what you have.
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The 4790k is already the best CPU available for your motherboard. The i7 5775C doesn't offer any real performance improvements CPU side. What the 5775C does offer is much better integrated graphics, which you won't be using as you already have 2 980Tis in SLI. The better integrated graphics does come at a cost for the 5775C, the CPU is clocked a good deal lower than the 4790k and doesn't seem to overclock quite as well as its Haswell predecessor.

Bottom line is, unless you have a use for the improved integrated graphics, stick with what you have.
 
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I see, and i understand thank you for your quick response! For a follow up though what would be the next best cpu in general for my build which i would only be gaming on no video editing or other tasks? Because i have heard 6700k and sky lake in general is not that much of an improvement to begin with just curious :)

Thank you,
-Luis
 
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You're right, the 6700k doesn't offer much of a performance improvement over the 4790k, it's big advantages are DDR4 RAM support and chipset features like NVMe drive support and high bandwidth M.2 capabilities. For gaming, you effectively have the best CPU available. There are the Enthusiast i7s on LGA 2011-3 which have 6 or 8 cores, with a 10 core CPU coming soon, but those really won't improve gaming for you as games still aren't scaling very well beyond 4 cores. The only thing the Enthusiast i7s would offer you would be more PCI-E lanes, which you'd only really need if you wanted to do three way or four way SLI or you wanted to add a really high performance SSD to your system while running two way SLI.
 
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"very true about the Enthusiast i7s but i do not see myself going that far because most games aren't properly optimized for 2 cards lets alone 3or4. well until direct x12 becomes a thing and gpu power becomes stack-able then but thats not happening anytime soon haha! Thank you so much for the responses i am leaning a lot i just recently built my own computer and have been loving every second trying to learn as much as i can :) one last question im sorry to keep bothering you but have just got into over clocking with my gpu's and i am confident on how to do it safety but would higher performance ram help in anyway? i currently have 16gb of ddr3 1600mhz ram which i didnt spend a dime on so im curious to see if me skimping out on ram would cause problems further up the road? thank you again."

 
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For most games, no faster RAM won't make an appreciable difference. There are a couple of exceptions to that: Ryse: Son of Rome, and Fallout 4 do show significant performance gains with faster RAM eg. moving up to DDR3-2133 or 2400MHz on Haswell CPUs like the 4790k. That being said, both games will run just fine on your current setup, so buying faster RAM probably isn't worthwhile, there is no game out there that will be rendered unplayable or see major dips below 60FPS just because you don't have extremely high speed RAM.
 
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i understand thank you again so much very grateful for this site and you!!
 
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