Is a second GTX 1070 worth it with my processor?

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I am now playing on a FX-8350 at 4.4 ghz and a GTX 1070 and everything ran totally fine. Until well, I got myself a 4K Monitor just yesterday and most of the Games are still running good and smooth. But for Mass Effect andromeda for example, everything maxed out and on 4k resolution I get about 30 FPS which is about 7 FPS lower than Benchmarks with a more powerful CPU. So if I'm gonna get another 1070 for 300$ its more worth it than 500$ spent on some Intel Gear aint it? What do you think? And I am not the Guy that looses his Crown if I loose 10-15% of the Maximum possibilities of The 1070s. And As far as I know from 1440p upwards its more or less only more Graphicspower needed At the moment.
 
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Yeah you are going to have a severe bottleneck with that CPU. You'd need to upgrade to either a Skylake or Kaby Lake i5 or i7 (or Ryzen if you fancy AMD as at 4K it's all on the GPU as you correctly surmise). You are already bottlenecking that 1070 a little as it is. If you want to throw away money, then buy a second 1070 for your current platform and watch it sit there and do effectively nothing.

With that said, SLI and Crossfire are slowly dying. Game developers are starting to stray away from the extra coding required for multiple GPU support. This is especially the case in console port games which either have very poor scaling or no support at all for two GPUs. I am probably on my last SLI build, and I've had SLI rigs since the...
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SLI is never recommended on this forum.
Its sometimes buggy, and not every game supports it, not to mention the vram in the second card is unusable.
One stronger GPU is better.

Not to mention that a single 1070 is pushing an 8350 to its max, so it is not going to handle 2 1070s well at all. Plus the fact that only a few AMD 990FX boards supported SLI anyways so it might not even be an option for you.

Money will be better spent being put towards a full upgrade, not a half working upgrade like SLI.

FYI the 1070 is not a 4k card, it is good for 1440p, but for 4k you really should be running a 1080.
 
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Yeah you are going to have a severe bottleneck with that CPU. You'd need to upgrade to either a Skylake or Kaby Lake i5 or i7 (or Ryzen if you fancy AMD as at 4K it's all on the GPU as you correctly surmise). You are already bottlenecking that 1070 a little as it is. If you want to throw away money, then buy a second 1070 for your current platform and watch it sit there and do effectively nothing.

With that said, SLI and Crossfire are slowly dying. Game developers are starting to stray away from the extra coding required for multiple GPU support. This is especially the case in console port games which either have very poor scaling or no support at all for two GPUs. I am probably on my last SLI build, and I've had SLI rigs since the late 90s with 3Dfx Voodoo 2. I'm going back to a single top of the line GPU when Nvidia's Volta comes out next year (GTX 2xxx).
 
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Not even a 1080 will run GPU intensive games at 4K unless you like playing Dues X at 35FPS. Even a factory overclocked 1080Ti that is 10-15% faster than reference struggles to reach 60FPS Dues X.

http://www.guru3d.com/articles_pages/zotac_geforce_gtx_1080_ti_amp_extreme_review,18.html

And it's even worse for Watchdogs 2:

http://www.guru3d.com/articles_pages/zotac_geforce_gtx_1080_ti_amp_extreme_review,22.html
 
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@10tacle Okay then....I'm probably gonna wait for the Next Generation of Graphic Cards too and then go for the top notch one.
To the others that say a 1070 is totally unusable on 4k, you probably dont know about 4k. Andromeda is quite poorly optimized I think, I assume the same for Deus Ex because I run Battlefield 1 just fine at around 60 FPS in Mp with low setting and in Singleplayer with Maxed out settings, Witcher 3 Maxed out at around 45 and Titanfall 2 Maxed out at 60 FPS too
 
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