Should i upgrade my 4790k

illyasviel_1

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Aug 8, 2016
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Right, ive got a couple of questions

1. Im currently running a 4790k@4.6GHZ, and a gtx 1080 and im looking to buy a second 1080. What im wondering is will the reduction to 8x pcie per card make a difference to performance?

2. Im running games on a 1440p 144hz monitor, ive heard that when pushing many frames, the 6700k is noticably faster, is this tru?

3. There is a benchmark by digital foundry that compares framrates between different proccessors here: https://youtu.be/VDo-j00vUtw. In this benchmark the 6700k has a significant performance gap next to the 4790k, were as other benchmark contradict this, in those benchmarks framerates are almost identical, so am i missing something here? Or was this an innacurate benchmark?


Thanks.
 
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Nope it will be fine and the only way to run x16/x16 xfire/sli is to go X99 so even a 6700k Z170 chipset can only do x8/x8. Just add another GTX 1080 if you have to otherwise just don't bother.

spat55

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Nope it will be fine and the only way to run x16/x16 xfire/sli is to go X99 so even a 6700k Z170 chipset can only do x8/x8. Just add another GTX 1080 if you have to otherwise just don't bother.
 
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