Originally Posted by
Knupzz
There isn't much to gain from a better cpu in your case, it'll be just fine. Freesync isn't worth sacrificing in my opinion, I wouldn't be able to part with my G-Sync monitor myself. The problem is that AMD doesn't quite have anything that comes close to a 1070 which is the easy recommendation for 1080p ~144Hz for the next couple of years. I'm not familiar enough to know when AMD might be coming with an equivalent, but it could be a while since iirc they are doing some mainstream and laptop gpu's for a while. Quite the predicament dude, shame you went for Freesync.