So I feel that for one reason or another its time to upgrade my computer.
Current build:
i7-4790
16 GB RAM
GTX 760
What I want to upgrade to:
i7-6800K
GTX 1070 or maybe a GTX 1080 if its necessary
Gigabyte X99P
32-64 GB RAM
A few notes:
-Run a 4K display and looking at getting a second one
-Have dozens of hard drives so need a motherboard with great connectivity
-[b]Going to be purchasing a HTC vive soon so want this to run VR games/apps fairly decently[/b]
-Use the system for work/editing in photoshop/lightroom/premiere and use it for gaming so want something that is stable and fairly future proof
-In terms of power supply, case and harddrives and everything like that I'm already set up well.
-16 GB of RAM doesn't cut it anymore and I find myself running out a lot; so rather than buying more DDR3 RAM I'm gonna upgrade the entire system.
I guess the main question is what is a good build for VR and is it worth getting a 1080 over a 1070 when it comes to VR?
Thanks.
Yes, go for a 1080. Although, you never told us your budget so we don't know if a 1080 is going to break a bank and that you should get a 1070 instead.
If you can afford it, 1080. If you cannot, 1070 will do fine.
i7 is fine because you are doing editing, etc.
ok thanks,
I guess my decision comes down to this
GTX 1070 with 8 core intel (6900K)
or
GTX 1080 with 6 core intel (6800K)
My budget is kinda flexible I made a ton of money with bitcoin so I wanna get a new PC and since the new nvidia cards out and I want go VR I wanna make the jump now.
Are you already running into problems with your i7-4790?
For professional multimedia work, a better CPU can never hurt, but I'd only upgrade CPU+Mobo if you're already being bothered by slow computation speeds. Especially if you still have free RAM slots for an extra 16GB on your old board. For games, even an Ivy Bridge i5 is still fast enough.
Do you [I]literally[/I] have dozens of hard drives (not partitions, physical drives)? The X99 chipset "only" has 10 SATA connections. Some boards [I]may[/I] have an additional SATA controller, but that also only gets you like 6 more, and they may provide lower speeds (and be impossible to boot from).
I'd also recommend keeping your options open for adding another GPU later. Right now SLI is not very useful unless you give absolutely no shits about value for money, but we'll probably see better non-SLI multi-GPU support in games soon-ish, and some professional applications (don't know about your specific ones) already have it.
Go with the 1080 and a good cooler with the 6800k and overclock the shit out of it
Also you're going to need to do a bios update to get the x99p to work with the newer x99 cpu's
[QUOTE=icarusfoundyou;50592096]So I feel that for one reason or another its time to upgrade my computer.
Current build:
i7-4790
16 GB RAM
GTX 760
What I want to upgrade to:
i7-6800K
GTX 1070 or maybe a GTX 1080 if its necessary
Gigabyte X99P
32-64 GB RAM
Thanks.[/QUOTE]
The only thing you need to upgrade to be VR ready is the 760 to the 1080.
You will notice no almost no difference in gaming performance by upgrading your CPU to a 6800K
DDR4 memory also does nothing for gaming performance.
He says he wants it for studio work so sure I guess
But If it isn't that imperitive I would just thrown in some more DDR3 and just get the 1080gtx (or use that extra spending money and wait for the TI version) if you really don't need it that much for your work.
the 16GB is choking me at the moment, and for the work I do if having a faster processor means saving even a few seconds on processes that I routinely do then it'd save hella time.
[QUOTE=icarusfoundyou;50604843]the 16GB is choking me at the moment, and for the work I do if having a faster processor means saving even a few seconds on processes that I routinely do then it'd save hella time.[/QUOTE]
Thats an awful lot of money for a few seconds of some process.
But I cant see in your wallet or know how busy you are. So whether or not its worth it is up to you.
[QUOTE=taipan;50605190]Thats an awful lot of money for a few seconds of some process.
But I cant see in your wallet or know how busy you are. So whether or not its worth it is up to you.[/QUOTE]
Its more that when I have to wait for stuff I become disinterested in it.
So then I move onto another task and get ADD and then come back to the first task later on.
Its very likely I'll be moving to the 8 or 10 core i7 options fairly soon anyways.
And having a backup set of fairly modern PC components is never a bad thing; I'll likely give them to a friend or something anyways.
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