TyGuy
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About a month ago I built a new rig. I kept my videocard(geforce 1070), as well as my 3 ssd's and 1 hdd, mouse, keyboard, monitor, ect.
I'm now running an i7 7700 k @4.5 ghz. I plan to spend sometime later to get a faster overclock. 16 GB of 3200 mhz ddr 4 (corsair vengance) and I went with an MSI z270 pro carbon for the motherboard. My new case is a corsair air 740 and I also picked up a newer power supply (corsair 650 i).
In CPU bound scenarios it's been roughly a 115 % performance increase give or take. The bottleneck has now been transferred to my videocard as I can get performance increase dropping resolution in both witcher 3 and GTAV at even 1080 P. Before because my CPU was a bottleneck, increasing graphic fidelity didn't reduce performance. Now disabling MSAA in GTA V nets me 20 more frames per second in particular scenes. There really isn't any setting in Witcher 3 other than resolution that can net you big performance, but dropping to 720 p I can hit 130 frames per second average in the most demanding parts of the game which is Novigrad with the hundreds of NPCs going about. I'll probably pick up an nvidia volta when they come out so I can hit 140 fps @ 1080 P in the most demanding games (144 hz monitor) as well as increase my 3d performance as 3d vision requires a ton of GPU horsepower.
I'm now running an i7 7700 k @4.5 ghz. I plan to spend sometime later to get a faster overclock. 16 GB of 3200 mhz ddr 4 (corsair vengance) and I went with an MSI z270 pro carbon for the motherboard. My new case is a corsair air 740 and I also picked up a newer power supply (corsair 650 i).
In CPU bound scenarios it's been roughly a 115 % performance increase give or take. The bottleneck has now been transferred to my videocard as I can get performance increase dropping resolution in both witcher 3 and GTAV at even 1080 P. Before because my CPU was a bottleneck, increasing graphic fidelity didn't reduce performance. Now disabling MSAA in GTA V nets me 20 more frames per second in particular scenes. There really isn't any setting in Witcher 3 other than resolution that can net you big performance, but dropping to 720 p I can hit 130 frames per second average in the most demanding parts of the game which is Novigrad with the hundreds of NPCs going about. I'll probably pick up an nvidia volta when they come out so I can hit 140 fps @ 1080 P in the most demanding games (144 hz monitor) as well as increase my 3d performance as 3d vision requires a ton of GPU horsepower.