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What is a better upgrade?

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Compddd

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I can choose between building a new system around a 4770k Haswell or get a Titan. Currently running i7 920 OCed to 3.6 and a 680 2GB. I game at 2560 x 1600 on a single 30". I play the FPS games mostly.
 
Since haswell has not officially been released, any answer would be a guesstimate. I know my 3770k rig with 670s in sli sure is fast with a 2560 x 1440 monitor.
 
+1 extra 680 and potential platform upgrade if it fits within your budget. Titan isn't that much faster than a single 680, and SLI often scales close to 100%.
 
possibly, depends on how hes running it. i would assume hes running a 180x20, would it run faster if it was running at 200x16? or hell 200x19
either way i dont think his cpu is too old or slow to do gaming, running an i7 920 @ 3.8 with a gtx 670 and the only game ive noticed any slow down is metro
 
A 4770K upgrade will not cost anywhere near what a Titan will.

A stock 4770K will be about 30% faster than your OC'd CPU. That's a similar upgrade as from 680 to Titan, but will cost half as much, leaving you room for another 680...
 
I've tried 680 SLI and didn't care for SLI, that's why I was considering a Titan. I like single cards.

So a Titan really isn't that much faster than a 680 at 2560 x 1600?
 
Compddd said:
I can choose between building a new system around a 4770k Haswell or get a Titan. Currently running i7 920 OCed to 3.6 and a 680 2GB. I game at 2560 x 1600 on a single 30". I play the FPS games mostly.
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Wait until GTX780 drops. If it's $599, I think it's worth it to get 2x GTX780s for 2560x1600 than a single $1k Titan. If a single Titan is about 50% faster than your GTX680 at 1600P, then . Your CPU is the last thing you need to worry about.

Check out this review @ guru3d. At 1600P, in FPS games, the Titan is the limiting component with a 1st gen i7 Nehalem @ 3.8ghz:
http://www.guru3d.com/articles_pages/geforce_gtx_titan_review,13.html

I think you can push that 920 to 4.0-4.2ghz as well. I think you can ride the wave to Skylake as Haswell's early performance seems to be underwhelming to say the least.

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A stock 4770K will be about 30% faster than your OC'd CPU.
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Na-a. The performance increase from i7 920 @ 3.6ghz with a GTX680 to i7 4770K @ 5.0ghz with the same GPU at his resolution will be less than 5% in most FPS games, if that. The Titan is a bottleneck when paired with a 1st gen i7 @ 3.8ghz at 1600P. There is no way a GTX680 will benefit from Haswell's performance increase in a linear fashion you described since the 680 is a good 40% slower at 1600P than the Titan. You'll be GPU limited in 95% of games.

At 1080P, i7 920 2.8ghz can give you 75 fps in Metro LL, but at the same resolution with AA, Titan gets only 44 fps!

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At 1600P, it's a slaughter.

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The CPU is practically a non-factor for his chosen genre and resolution. Buying i7 4770K + new mobo is throwing $ into the toilet when the GPU is the most limiting component. Intel's marketing machine for SB/Haswell can't hide the fact how amazing i7 920 was.
 
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Thank you RussianSensation, I will go ahead and sell my 680 and get a Titan, as well as try and OC my 920 further.

Do I need to leave HT on for games? I know I can hit 4.0 without any tweaking if I turn HT off.
 
Compddd said:
Thank you RussianSensation, I will go ahead and sell my 680 and get a Titan, as well as try and OC my 920 further.

Do I need to leave HT on for games? I know I can hit 4.0 without any tweaking if I turn HT off.
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Most games won't take advantage of it. I would crank her up to 4Ghz and disable the HT.
 
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