Will a Core i7 7700K bottleneck these graphics cards in SLI?

Fixadent

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Will a Core i7 7700K bottleneck two-way SLI GTX 1080's?

The base clock is 4.2 GHz and it turbo-boosts to 4.5, which is very high.

Is it really necessary to buy the extreme edition?
 
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An i5-6600K wouldn't even bottleneck that setup, an i7-7700K would handle it with no problem.

The word bottleneck is thrown around too much without any knowledge of what it really means.

TJ Hooker

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I'm assuming you mean the unlocked edition? No, not really necessary unless you like the idea of overclocking.

As said above, there won't be a bottleneck. Not unless you're running dual GTX 1080s at reduced settings/resolution to try and get insane FPS, or some other edge case like that.