Looking to upgrade.

[michela1055]

I have A 3rd generation CPU, I7 3820 AND an ASUS p9x79 PRO mother board, 32gb of Ram and just bough the Asus ROG 1080TI Video card, Yes Serious bottle necking, Im looking to upgrade my CPU AND Mobo, What would be a good Combo to match my ram AND video card without breaking the bank, The video card was was enough money. LOl, Thanks in advance.

 

[michela1055]

this will be strictly for gaming, Thanks

 

[michela1055]

sorry keep remembering i left out info for you guys, i will be playing on a 27 inch monitor 2560x1440, eventually will upgrade monitor for 4k, thanks again

 

[Rakanyshu]

I have A 3rd generation CPU, I7 3820 AND an ASUS p9x79 PRO mother board, 32gb of Ram and just bough the Asus ROG 1080TI Video card, Yes Serious bottle necking, Im looking to upgrade my CPU AND Mobo, What would be a good Combo to match my ram AND video card without breaking the bank, The video card was was enough money. LOl, Thanks in advance.

Hello, imho i would just OC that cpu over 4Ghx probaly 4.3 - 4.4, and keep it for a couple of years until i can save some cash for a newer mobo,cpu and ram combo. That cpu you have is still capable specially if you dont plan on getting 120+ fps, but rather want to game on high resolutions like 1440p and 4 k.

That being said if you want to upgrade to a faster cpu the only reasonably upgrade would be latest gen intel cpu, but this is not cheap and you would have to move from ddr3 to ddr4 ram wich again is really expensive this days (another thought is you dont need 32Gb for gaming 16Gb is more than enough).

For high resolutions and great performance (if you dont care about intel or AMD just bang for buck) you can get something like an AMD ryzen 5 1600 with a nice priced mobo and some ddr4 ram.

 

[michela1055]

I just remembered i just bought 16gb of ram which is ddr3, so i guess if i want to upgrade i need to get ddr4, correct

 

[antishill]

If you already bought the 1080ti and want something that won't bottleneck the GPU, you will need at least a kabylake i7, but you might as well get the 8700k at this point. None of the ryzen options are viable for not bottlenecking your 1080ti. See:
https://www.techspot.com/article/1496-pairing-cpu-and-gpu-bottlenecking/

and

https://www.techspot.com/community/topics/tackling-the-subject-of-gpu-bottlenecking-and-cpu-gaming-benchmarks-using-ryzen-as-an.233727/

 

[Phaaze88]

If you will EVENTUALLY move to 4k, you don't really need to change anything. Just overclock the cpu a little as Rakanyshu suggested.
A cpu's performance is less relevant at that resolution - most of the work is being done by the gpu(1080ti) instead.
1080p is the opposite, and 1440p is more of a balance between the two.

If you feel that's not enough, then upgrade to a new platform. But since you're making your way to 4k, I'd wait and see how things go.

 

[dontlistentome]

I'd point out that just because you have a bottleneck it's not a bad thing. If your new 1080 Ti gets you the framerate you need in your games right now then it does not matter that you aren't getting the highest possible framerate that 1080 Ti can put out.

If I need 60fps in a game, and my card gets me 65fps in that game, what do I care if that card would give 90fps in the same game if I had a faster CPU?