i7 3820 paired with 1080ti and 1440p monitor

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As the title suggests, I'm looking to upgrade my graphics card and monitor BUT I'm not sure if my i7 3820 at stock speeds can handle a 1080ti and 1440p monitor with g-sync.

Am I asking for too much of this cpu?

If this works I'm planning on keeping this setup for another 3 years before I do another full system build.
 
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I think you will be fine i7 3820 gen 3 but intel have not significantly improved since then you might have some problems with (bottleneck) with games that are poorly optimized like for example total war series. Most games will work fine with 50-60+ frames and in games where developers have not locked them self in same game engine they use for last 10 years (looking at you Bethesda).

But as you plan to do full upgrade in 3 years 1080 (non ti) would be my choice as it will do great job (max all games @ 1440p, well even 1070 can max most of modern games but I assume you would not play @ 45-60 fps when you can @ 60 fps).
Again I assume you will use 60 fps monitor as you did not say it is 144 fps.
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I think you will be fine i7 3820 gen 3 but intel have not significantly improved since then you might have some problems with (bottleneck) with games that are poorly optimized like for example total war series. Most games will work fine with 50-60+ frames and in games where developers have not locked them self in same game engine they use for last 10 years (looking at you Bethesda).

But as you plan to do full upgrade in 3 years 1080 (non ti) would be my choice as it will do great job (max all games @ 1440p, well even 1070 can max most of modern games but I assume you would not play @ 45-60 fps when you can @ 60 fps).
Again I assume you will use 60 fps monitor as you did not say it is 144 fps.
 
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I was planning on getting a 144hz monitor with g-sync so I could use it when I do a new build in 3 years. From your post I'm assuming getting a gtx 1080 and a 144hz g-sync 1440p monitor with my cpu can yield 60FPS or more?
 
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no that would 1070 do on the other hand 1080 would give you more than 60 fps in almost every game (ofc there are some games that are optimized plain bad) but tbh even 1080ti can't get 144 hz in every single game not at 1440p. You will get best idea for performance of 1070 / 1080 and 1080ti if you try to find video of jay2cents or linustechtips or someone like jokerproduction that will give you idea of performance in different games.
 
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Awesome, thanks. I'm going to go with the gtx 1080.
 
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The i7-3820 implements only pci-e 2.0. I cannot comment on whether that fact will bottleneck the graphics card, however, what I did is sold my i7-3820 in favor of the E5-1650 V2 which added two more cores and is pci-e 3.0 compliant.

If your motherboard supports a processor that is pci-e 3.0 compliant, I suggest considering a move to one of those processors. If you were to do that, I suspect that such a proc would not bottleneck faster graphics cards such as the 1080 Ti. You can find socket 2011-v1 parts on e-bay for reasonable prices - E5-1650v2 procs can be had right now for about $250 - but if you go this route, be sure your motherboard supports it or that you can flash the bios to get support for the proc before you install it.

I don't expect that this is what you want to hear or know whether this would be out of your budget range, but it may be a good step forward.
 
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