Will this 1000$ upgrade be worth it?

[fishandbike]

Current set up:

Ram: 16gb DDR4 2400MHZ
GPU: GTX 1070 FE
CPU: i5-7600
Motherboard: MSI gaming B250

upgraded:

Ram: 32gb DDR4 2400MHZ
GPU: GTX 1070 FE SLI (note the sli here)
CPU: i7-8700k
Motherboard: MSI Z370 SLI Plus

COST:$1000

 

[volkgren]

32GB not really worth it for gaming. Since not all games are able to utlize SLI, I would rather trade the GTX 1070 for a GTX 1080 Ti. You could even go with an i5-8600K (or actually i7-7700K) if you wanted to save money and have almost the same performance as the 8700K for now and the near future.

Further questioning, what monitor and power supply do you have?

 

[fishandbike]

32GB not really worth it for gaming. Since not all games are able to utlize SLI, I would rather trade the GTX 1070 for a GTX 1080 Ti. You could even go with an i5-8600K (or actually i7-7700K) if you wanted to save money and have almost the same performance as the 8700K for now and the near future.

Further questioning, what monitor and power supply do you have?

I have a 700B EVGA PSU, and a 4k 60hz monitor

 

[volkgren]

The EVGA 700B is not a very good power supply. The B1 series was meant for budget systems. They never should have made 700W B1. I'd upgrade your power supply.

 

[fishandbike]

The EVGA 700B is not a very good power supply. The B1 series was meant for budget systems. They never should have made 700W B1. I'd upgrade your power supply.

 

[fishandbike]

The EVGA 700B is not a very good power supply. The B1 series was meant for budget systems. They never should have made 700W B1. I'd upgrade your power supply.

Lol are you serious? its a 700w PSU for a 1070, i had a 500b in there and it was working great, then i upgraded and its still great. the PSU is the last thing I want to upgrade in the build 😛 the question wasnt about that though, it was is the upgrade I can get worth 1000$. in my opinion that's a steal cause it make my computer way op which is awesome. 1070 SLI outperforms 1080ti any day. and on top of that, most games still offer support, the ones that dont can still be run in 4k on 1 1070. plus switching from 1070 to 1080ti will cost me more than both of the 1070's combined (780$ for two 1070 is a steal, a 1080ti on amazon right now is like a grand) I also don't want the 7th gen i7 because it isnt supported on the 300 series motherboards. gotta get a 370 to be ready for all future gens of Intel cores, getting the 7th gen now would be foolish because if im going to upgrade i should bridge the generational gap of motherboards and cpu simultaneously. 32 gb of ram i can agree with you on, its overkill. so if i didnt do that the entire deal would be for 800$. thats a second 1070, a 300 series atx motherboard (vs the matx i have now) and an i7 8700k (i want to OC my new cpu so it has to be a k model. otherwise my nice liquid cooling system is for nothing)

 

[voxic]

The EVGA 700B is not a very good power supply. The B1 series was meant for budget systems. They never should have made 700W B1. I'd upgrade your power supply.

Lol are you serious? its a 700w PSU for a 1070, i had a 500b in there and it was working great, then i upgraded and its still great. the PSU is the last thing I want to upgrade in the build 😛 the question wasnt about that though, it was is the upgrade I can get worth 1000$. in my opinion that's a steal cause it make my computer way op which is awesome. 1070 SLI outperforms 1080ti any day. and on top of that, most games still offer support, the ones that dont can still be run in 4k on 1 1070. plus switching from 1070 to 1080ti will cost me more than both of the 1070's combined (780$ for two 1070 is a steal, a 1080ti on amazon right now is like a grand) I also don't want the 7th gen i7 because it isnt supported on the 300 series motherboards. gotta get a 370 to be ready for all future gens of Intel cores, getting the 7th gen now would be foolish because if im going to upgrade i should bridge the generational gap of motherboards and cpu simultaneously. 32 gb of ram i can agree with you on, its overkill. so if i didnt do that the entire deal would be for 800$. thats a second 1070, a 300 series atx motherboard (vs the matx i have now) and an i7 8700k (i want to OC my new cpu so it has to be a k model. otherwise my nice liquid cooling system is for nothing)

Then why did you even make this thread? You seem to have gotten defensive over them telling you need to upgrade your PSU.

 

[volkgren]

The EVGA 700B is not a very good power supply. The B1 series was meant for budget systems. They never should have made 700W B1. I'd upgrade your power supply.

Lol are you serious? its a 700w PSU for a 1070, i had a 500b in there and it was working great, then i upgraded and its still great. the PSU is the last thing I want to upgrade in the build 😛 the question wasnt about that though, it was is the upgrade I can get worth 1000$. in my opinion that's a steal cause it make my computer way op which is awesome. 1070 SLI outperforms 1080ti any day. and on top of that, most games still offer support, the ones that dont can still be run in 4k on 1 1070. plus switching from 1070 to 1080ti will cost me more than both of the 1070's combined (780$ for two 1070 is a steal, a 1080ti on amazon right now is like a grand) I also don't want the 7th gen i7 because it isnt supported on the 300 series motherboards. gotta get a 370 to be ready for all future gens of Intel cores, getting the 7th gen now would be foolish because if im going to upgrade i should bridge the generational gap of motherboards and cpu simultaneously. 32 gb of ram i can agree with you on, its overkill. so if i didnt do that the entire deal would be for 800$. thats a second 1070, a 300 series atx motherboard (vs the matx i have now) and an i7 8700k (i want to OC my new cpu so it has to be a k model. otherwise my nice liquid cooling system is for nothing)

*I wasn't telling you to upgrade the PSU just for your current system, but you are talking about adding $1000 worth of high-end parts.

That's fine if you want to go with dual SLI GTX 1070 instead of a GTX 1080 Ti, but I would still recommend you upgrade your PSU for that. Sure it might work, but that still doesn't change the fact the B1 series is not meant for overclocking/high-end gaming systems.

4K makes the CPU upgrade almost irrelevent to your gaming performance. But I don't blame you for wanting the i7-8700K. It's a nice investment.

*If you do be sure to get a Z370 mobo that is SLI capable. Some that are CrossfireX capable are not necessarily SLI capable.

 

[fishandbike]

sry mate, dont mean to be defensive. i posted because i wanted to know if the valuation was good, or i guess if folks thought it was worth dropping 1k on. upon further review i do think 32 gb of ram is probably overkill. but i remain unconvinced that a 1080ti is a better investment. trying to get one with this crypto boom is nuts and a 1070 sli is more cost effective. if money wasnt an issue i would probably get the 1080ti like you suggested. i do think from my research that a 1070 sli can be run on a 700w psu fine. the cards are the FE ones so the power drawn is lower than the custom cards by a significant amount, even when OC'd they wont go much over 150w each

you mind explaining what you mean by "4K makes the CPU upgrade almost irrelevant"? ALso, I didnt know that some mobo's dont support sli even if they have multiple ports, i believe the one i posted does though but thanks for the heads up

 

[volkgren]

At 4K the GPU will be the limiting factor not the CPU, so as long as you have enough CPU threads for the game there will be close to zero difference in your i5 and an i7.

I remember seeing plenty of professional review examples of this especially last year and the year before when the new GTX 10 series came out and everyone was wanting to go 4K. But I can't seem to find them now. But here's a random example - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-95JbRopM9c