i7 6700K or a second 980Ti?

ZombieDawgg · Jul 13, 2016

Hi,

As you most likely have heard, 980Ti's are dropping in price and you can grab them for around $100 more than a 6700K. If I had to pick one, which would give me the better performance boost? Right now I'm on an i5 6600K, but I am unsure if that would bottleneck 2 980Ti's.

filippi · Jul 13, 2016

oced i5-6600K? -10fps (min/med) in some AAA titles. But the second 980Ti is totally worth imho.

Hlsgsz · Jul 13, 2016

980 Ti all the way fopr better gaming performance. The 6600K, even if not overclocked, can handle twho of those cards without issue.
May i ask why you feel like you need to upgrade?

ZombieDawgg · Jul 13, 2016

filippi :

Only a -10 decrease? I was worried it would show NO difference or something. Yeah, the price of the i7 will only go down while the 980Ti will only be able to be bought used soon.

ZombieDawgg · Jul 13, 2016

Hlsgsz :

I don't really feel like I need to, but getting 130+ FPS at 1440P at max settings does sound nice. Right now I'm stuck to most newer games at medium to maintain the high FPS.

Chaos2Theory · Jul 13, 2016

The 6600k can easily handle sli setups for gaming. The increase to an I7 will only bring you better performance in multitasking (might be helpful for streaming?) but even then its hard to recommend that you go for that solution seeing as you already own an i5 and the i7 will only marginally increase performance at those tasks. Honestly going for the dual 980ti's in SLI would bring you much better performance if your PSU can handle the stress. You will get way higher performance gains in gaming scenarios.

ZombieDawgg · Jul 13, 2016

Chaos2Theory :

Would an 850W supply be enough, or would I have to invest in a 1000W+ PSU?

Hlsgsz · Jul 13, 2016

ZombieDawgg :

Ah ok. I feared you were gaming in 1080p and jus had money to burn

For 1440p 144Hz, definitely go for it!

lakimens · Jul 13, 2016

i5-6600k will not bottleneck SLI 980Ti, but a i7-6700k will give you no performance boost.
The i7-6700k will only give you performance boosts in some applications like After Effects and some other workstation apps.

Rogue Leader · Jul 13, 2016

850w PSU will power 2 980 Ti no problem.

Don't get the 6700k it will give you 0 performance boost in gaming at all.

EtnoNyt · Jul 13, 2016

6700k may give you 1~2 more FPS in most game. better than nothing right? LOL
but if you OC an i5...i7 cant do anything better at same clock in game
http://www.hardwareunboxed.com/intel-pentium-vs-core-i3-vs-core-i5-vs-core-i7-what-do-gamers-get-by-spending-more/
CPU is usually the last part to upgrade for gaming

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