Are you setting unrealistic goals for your project?
Are you setting unrealistic goals for your project?
Your current setup is solid for gaming, but achieving consistently high frame rates—especially 60+ FPS at 1440p—depends on balancing components. For smoother performance in demanding titles like Elders or Assassin's Creed, consider upgrading the GPU to a more powerful model such as an RTX 4060 or better, paired with a high-end CPU and ample RAM. Also, ensure your motherboard supports the latest PCIe version and has sufficient VRAM for future games. If you want to stay within your budget, focus on optimizing settings and using dedicated cooling for your GPU.
Hi Super_Moose93, you shouldn’t face any trouble. Here’s a link to a 1080 ti Elder Scrolls in 4k at over 90 fps: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-HHCnuCWGkg. You’ll find many other videos showing high frame rates against other titles. Usually, the GPU is the biggest factor for smooth performance, unless something else in your setup is severely limited. As long as everything fits well and the 1080 ti can handle levels close to what you want, most games should run fine. The i7-8700k remains a solid choice with plenty of room for boosting. My Ryzen 3600x matches it in benchmarks and needs little effort to play games well. To squeeze more frames, check out overclocking guides for RAM and CPU—especially with your aftermarket cooler. MSI Afterburner can help you fine-tune it. Expect a 5 to 10% boost with safe adjustments. If I were you, I’d swap in an M.2 NVMe drive. Your board likely supports it, and these can be up to four times faster than your current SSD. Based on your specs, the slowest part is probably your storage. Even though they were fast once, they’re now often the main limitation for everyday tasks. I’d suggest the Samsung 970 Evo Plus—it’s budget-friendly, dependable, and delivers top-tier speed. Put your OS and favorite games on it for the best results. Overall, this build is impressive and should handle heavy use without much hassle.
Hi SUPER_MOOSE93 , I also used to have an 8700K with my 1080Ti and 16GB, but I sold it for a 9900K. When I did have it I played a lot of Skyrim (I have over 2k or 3k hrs) also on 1440p144hz monitor maxed out settings. But, I also had tons of high res & high poly mods, lighting effects, and weather effects. Standing on a cliff over looking Falkreath I would get 80>FPS which doesn't sound like a lot, but again, there were many environment mods like buildings, trees, and weather. Assassin's Creed: Odyssey on the other hand, ran terribly. I don't really remember too well as it was just released, not optimized at all, and I returned it, but I may have been tryna play on my 4K TV. I was getting <60FPS on high settings. It was playable, however, on my monitor w/G-SYNC around 30-50FPS; custom options like higher(not ultra) textures/models/particles low shadows. So many times with high fidelity games, it's up to you which matters more, higher FPS or higher quality textures/models, effects, etc. BUT adaptive sync makes the biggest difference IMO. I stopped monitoring League of Legends, so just guessing here. I get 120-200FPS max settings, only getting low during big team fights. I get around 90FPS max settings in GTA V and I haven't played FarCry5 for a while but I got around 70FPS with turned down shadows(only) I think. And, I've tried Witcher 3 for a short time getting 50-60FPS max settings (but hated the combat), but I really don't remember if I had a 6700K or 8700K and a 980Ti or 1080Ti at the time, but again, it's almost unnoticeable 50-90FPS or 90-144FPS with adaptive sync monitors, if it goes below 50FPS it will chug but shouldn't give headaches. P.S. Sorry if this post is all over the place, I'm new here, and also haven't played many of these games in over a year, mainly playing LoL and occasionally CoD Edit: most of the FPS are from 1440p, mainly AC:Odyssey and maybe GTA V were 4K.
I previously used an i7 8700k and GTX 1080 ti for some time and have now upgraded it for a home or gaming setup. Unless you opt for an RTX 2080 ti paired with an i7 10700k, i9 10900k or any other 5GHz+ CPU, you won’t see significant improvements. I’d even suggest a 2080 ti capable of handling games at around 2040mhz or higher. Be aware, though—expect limitations since a 2080 ti still falls short of optimal power and we really need at least a 5.4GHz processor. It’s an ongoing challenge.
Lol right? The competition keeps going on because we don’t have the same tools developers do, and let alone the right time or perfect hardware. I’ve been thinking about switching to a 2080Ti for a while now, but there’s a lot of chatter about the 3000 series these days. As I mentioned to @SUPER_MOOSE93, I really believe adaptive sync helps reduce the pressure and stigma around FPS discussions. Also, my 1080Ti can handle a maximum GPUBoost clock of 2012Mhz, which is a bit disappointing.
The 2040mhz model is a high-end 2080 Ti system. The issue arises because at 1440p most games I've tried slow down when running at 5.1GHz with an i7 8086K across all cores. At 2040mhz older titles typically bottleneck at 4K. GTA 5 hit around 2115mhz and only used 64% at 4K Ultra. These premium cards from the 3000 series require more CPU power than currently available to run smoothly at 1440p. I'm using an LG OLED TV, so my target is 4K at 120Hz.