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I do have a 144hz monitor. Rainbow Six Siege, the game I mainly play with over 1000+ hours, is really CPU intensive and it is more optimized for Intel and Nvidia.

Mainly BF1, R6 Siege, SWBF2, and thats about it. I already said that the I7 8700 is out of my pricerange, as it is $415 and around $550 with a new motherboard, I only have an AM3+ board. There is a huge framerate gap between the Ryzen 5 1600 vs the I7 7700k in BF1 (Ryzen gets 81 FPS at max at 1080p, and the i7 7700k gets 110)

I do love AMD more than intel or nvidia, I just can't deal with their GPUs. The 8700k is out of my price range as I need a new motherboard too.

Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six® Siege may experience an application hang when breaching walls with grenades or explosives What is an application hang? This is from AMD Drivers, and was wondering if it is when the screen goes black and nothing responds at all and you can't do anything on your computer. If so, than thats just AMDs fault and I don't need to upgrade my GPU.

Budget is $300-400 though if it goes a little over 400 I'm okay with it. The thing is, I've looked at the benchmarks with the Ryzen 5 1600 in Battlefield 1 and the ryzen gets 82 FPS at max compared to the i7-7700k's 110. It seems to be a pretty big gap

The two things I want to upgrade are this: My FX-8370 8 core 4.0GHZ processor Reasoning: Bad framerates in games compared to other CPUs which get a much higher framerate Replacement: i7-7700k and Z270 Sapphire R9 290X 4GB Reasoning: It is way too inconsistent. It can run games I love at high settings at around 60 frames a second (I play with a 144hz monitor). It runs at 94C NORMALLY (This is not an issue with the card. All R9 290X's run at this temp in games.) It causes severe issues with crashing. I can play a game with no worrying about the game crashing, but then it just decides to step out and cause the game to crash. Replacement: GTX 1070 Apologies if this is in the wrong section or anything, it was a mix of Graphics card and CPU/Motherboard so decided to put it in CPU/Motherboard/Ram as there is more relating to it.

Also, another thing, will there even be a difference in framerate in games between the two? Might just be cheaper to go with the 7700k as their isn't much difference Mainly SWBF2, R6: Siege, and BF1

Will a z270 still work with the i5-8600k? The price of the z370 is still high at around $150 even on sale.

Specs: FX-8370 4.0GHZ 8-Core (Not Overclocked) R9 290X 4GB (Not overclocked) 32GB DDR4 2333mhz 256GB SSD 3TB HDD 1KW PSU So I've been doing research about upgrading my CPU instead of my GPU, and was looking at the best 2 options for CPUs. Budget is $300,since I have to get a new motherboard with it aswell. i7-7700K i5 8600K The i7 has 2 more threads than the i5, faster clock speeds The i5 has 2 more cores than the i7, I already previously stated the 2 less threads, and the lower clock speeds So which would be better? I'm also looking into upgrading my GPU in the future.

Even with the DDR3 ram?

I have an older i7-4700k with a motherboard and 16gb of DDR3 ram. Would it be better if I paired the 1070ti with that?

Does anyone know how much better a 1070ti over a r9 290x would be with my CPU? Just to finalize.

So in conclusion; Will it be better than the R9 290X and by how little, how much, how much worse, etc?

Will the 1070ti just be good enough for now until I can get my next paycheck? I primarily just play R6 Siege and my FX-8370 can run that at an average of 116.3 FPS (from the ingame benchmark) and I want consistent 144 FPS.

Alright alright alright. Would a ryzen 5 1600 work? Albeit I don't want to get an entirely new motherboard.