Mid-life PC upgrade questions

[Kirk66]

My current rig is an i7-7700k, GTX 1080ti 11gb, 32gb (2x16) DDR4-3200 RAM, all SSD drives, and a 750 W PSU. Mainly play SP in VR on a Rift S. Thinking of a mid-life upgrade while waiting for next gen of VR headsets/CPUs/GPUs/magic.

Looking at upgrading the GPU to a 3080ti, and bumping RAM up to 64gb by adding two additional sticks of the same 16gb RAM.

Question: will my CPU be a bottleneck (it is mildly pushed to 4.8), and will my PSU be big enough?

Thanks in advance,

Vulture

[Bossco82]

It will probably start to bottleneck a bit. However you are already running a 1080ti. 

You might need a 850w PSU for the 3080ti. 

The Dram upgrade is a no brainer if you can get matching sticks.

 

[BitMaster]

+1 to Bossco82

You cant loose much by trying if the RAM comes in cheap. The 3080ti can be carried over to any newer system you might build if it really doesnt make sense with the 7700k.

That was a nice CPU, my son still runs it. For VR it may lack some cores tbh.

[Kirk66]

Thanks all for the responses; I went ahead and got the matching RAM sticks for 64gb (cheap) but I think I will wait to make a new build when the i7-13700kf/DDR5 and RTX 4080 generation is out. Hope the dollar is still high!

Cheers,

Vulture

[sasquatch98]

On 8/16/2022 at 12:21 PM, Kirk66 said:

My current rig is an i7-7700k, GTX 1080ti 11gb, 32gb (2x16) DDR4-3200 RAM, all SSD drives, and a 750 W PSU. Mainly play SP in VR on a Rift S. Thinking of a mid-life upgrade while waiting for next gen of VR headsets/CPUs/GPUs/magic.

Looking at upgrading the GPU to a 3080ti, and bumping RAM up to 64gb by adding two additional sticks of the same 16gb RAM.

Question: will my CPU be a bottleneck (it is mildly pushed to 4.8), and will my PSU be big enough?

Thanks in advance,

Vulture

I’ve got basically the same setup except I’m using a reverb g2 and the 7700k is already a bottleneck to the 1080ti let alone a 3080.