By that I meant during stress tests, not idling lol, or even in bf1 really haven’t seen 100%
HDD… shadowplay… geforce experience…
4.5ghz @ 60c.. sure mate!
yes it can,my 4790k does the same, 60 a 63 c with this game at 4.6 even, decent cooling can do allot.
I have zero issues with directx 12 running ultra on a 1440p 144hz monitor.
Well, just a tad over 60°c @ 100% load
But what is your fps in game? Not bashing you but dx12 is a fps HOG. My fps drop buy 20 or so on Ultra compared to DX11 on a gtx1080 no OC on the card with a I7 6800K @ 4.4…empty server dx12 90 fps @ 2560x1440 and 144hz Asus rog pg279q. Empty server dx11 111 fps. Amiens for the map German spawn running to C. And I call BS that dx12 does not work with nvidia cards LOL cause it does.
My 6900k @4.6ghz run in some stress tests 100% 60c and others 80c,
depend what you do with it!
Gaming at 100% cpu doesn’t bring tems to high!
My old 6700K 4.5ghz gaming at 100% was 60c as well, but other stuff 75c!
FPS in dx11 and dx12 can’t be compared,
depends of the rest of system,
DX12 in lower CPU/GPU’s and ram brings more benefits that DX11!
Top end hardware (intel/nvidia) DX12 doesn’t work well!
So from this, and the other posts about this topic, I’m gathering that you’d recommend using DX11? 
Yes use dx11
So as a checklist for suggestions based on my setup:
- Use DX11
- Move game to SSD
- Get Dual Channel RAM
What about driver versions? Would you recommend staying on the latest stable release, or even an older version?
Yes then let us know how things worked out for ya. Peace.
The Dual channel Ram is the most important here, you will benefit in all games!
SSD is also good because it can load faster (OS, games and textures) but when all is loaded is the same!
With your system i believe for now DX11 is the best, DX12 and game need to be improved to work beter!
In my system drivers are allways updated, i only use older drivers if developers mess up (you will easily notice if they do!).
I’m yet to move the game to my SSD, but I’ve just received the RAM from @DeLtAuk2004, after switching out my old RAM for 16GB Dual Channel @ 1600MHz, I ran a few test matches without V-Sync so that I could see my uncapped frames.
It played stably at 120 FPS, peaking at 170 FPS, and the lowest I saw was in the 70’s. It looks like the RAM config in this case was what was causing the problems. Thank you to everyone that helped and especially @DeLtAuk2004 for being kind enough to send me their old RAM! <3
that cpu has 10 cores,so yes it will get hot.
told yhea its ram,you running and in single channel and with higher mhz,so defenitly fps boost,nice to hear,game on!
Glad it’s helped you out this game is a system punisher for sure …