Quote (DCSS @ Feb 22 2018 05:27pm)

it's not necessarily unbalanced.. depends on his resolution

1080p it should be more than fine
or if he plays cpu intensive games at all.

That aside, it is always best to get a better cpu if you can, gpu is whatever, there's practically no limit to the amount of fidelity you can sacrifice to get more and more fps out of your gpu, either by lowering settings or even upscaling but if you hit a cpu related fps wall there is almost nothing you can do. You are stuck. A strong cpu is just a great investment, your next gpu upgrade in however many years will pair well with the 8700k. Gpu's and the technologies they support come and go and a high-end gpu is never worth it unless you want 4k max settings on current games only because it will probably lose tons of performance or even be unusable as a result of lack of proper support within 3-4 years even though it still has enough horsepower in theory.

gtx 780 ti is the saddest example of this, such a strong card in terms of raw number crunching even by today's standard and yet it performs like absolute ass in new games due to the arch being old and new games not being coded for it. Tesla gtx 2xx series had no dx11 support and were basically useless within 2 yrs of launch. CPU's on the other hand do not encounter this sort of fuckery in general so popping most of your budget on it is not a bad idea. It's not like the 1070 is a shit card anyway, so...

Oh yeah and upgrading your gpu is much simpler, just pop a new one in there but if you want a new cpu will probly need new mobo maybe even new memory. So get the best cpu you can now to better reap the benefits of your next upgrade.

One last thing to consider... and this is pretty important... the kind of games that require something like a 1080 ti i.e AAA games are almost all garbage, the current state of the game industry is an absolute wasteland. The most fun you'll have is from indie titles that would gain more from having big dick coffee lake cores.

Quote (yupitsmeh @ Feb 23 2018 12:56pm)

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Quote (eyeslow @ Feb 23 2018 06:26pm)

Anyone else have input, would it be worth getting the msi carbon a.c. mobo? I should of got it off the rip but the stupid ibuypower site wanted too much and the promos I originally had when I created the computer were gone so I had to downsize a bit, also would it be worth upgrading the cooling system and getting a fan speed touch screen controller?

Quote (eyeslow @ Feb 23 2018 06:26pm)

Anyone else have input, would it be worth getting the msi carbon a.c. mobo? I should of got it off the rip but the stupid ibuypower site wanted too much and the promos I originally had when I created the computer were gone so I had to downsize a bit, also would it be worth upgrading the cooling system and getting a fan speed touch screen controller?

Quote (WhoBut_WBMason @ Feb 23 2018 08:32pm)

bro youre financing this shit and wanting to add a larger cooler better mobo and a touchscreen controller

WHAT?!?!?!??!?!?

Quote (eyeslow @ Feb 23 2018 09:31pm)

Well I would never get a better mobo without knowing I had the extra cash and had a sale for the one in it or a family memeber willing to build with it, but the cooler i didn't have much a choice their options were way more expensive then buying outright and would of stopped me from getting other things that would of been way more expensive if I got them from a store.

I was just throwing some things out there too just kind of wondering if there's anything I should look forward to adding in the future or if there is anything I can get soon that would be beneficial to the build for the long run.

Just because it's finance doesn't mean I don't want to add to it ya know.

Quote (WhoBut_WBMason @ Feb 24 2018 08:02pm)

this is why people work until they die