6850K Still Good For Gaming?

[Hellbound]

I've been away from home for well over a year, but now that I'm back.  My question is simple. Is my 6850K still a good cpu for gaming?

My current system:

Intel 6850K

Rampage V Edition 10

32gb ram

2x GTX 1080 Ti (yes I know, SLi is going the way of the dodo but I have them, deal with it) :)

[Jurrunio]

High frame rates then not so much, but still between Coffee Lake/Kaby Lake and Ryzen

[Hellbound]

Thanks for the reply.. I forgot to add the resolutions I'm using - 3440 x 1440

[Mephi00]

10 minutes ago, Hellbound said:

Thanks for the reply.. I forgot to add the resolutions I'm using - 3440 x 1440

That doesnt matter your 1080ti‘s should be sufficient for that res

[LukeSavenije]

Well, on that corecount here isn't much to upgrade to. And it's still a great cpu. No need to upgrade

[Stefan Payne]

4 hours ago, Hellbound said:

I've been away from home for well over a year, but now that I'm back.  My question is simple. Is my 6850K still a good cpu for gaming?

My current system:

Intel 6850K

Rampage V Edition 10

32gb ram

2x GTX 1080 Ti (yes I know, SLi is going the way of the dodo but I have them, deal with it)

Yes, it is still good and its best to wait for the 7nm Chips and decide than.

That's somewhere in the middle of next year.

Before that, stick with what you have.

[Hellbound]

I appreciate your input. I'll stick with what I have. Thanks again. 

[nick name]

On those titles that scale well with SLI you may want something faster.  What is your overclock?  

[Turtle Rig]

On 12/5/2018 at 11:11 PM, Hellbound said:

I've been away from home for well over a year, but now that I'm back.  My question is simple. Is my 6850K still a good cpu for gaming?

My current system:

Intel 6850K

Rampage V Edition 10

32gb ram

2x GTX 1080 Ti (yes I know, SLi is going the way of the dodo but I have them, deal with it)

If your running that CPU at stock clocks then you will take a performance hit, but if you can OC her to 4.6Ghz or so, then there will be no more bottleneck at all.

[porina]

What refresh rate is the display? Unless you're aiming well into three figures the CPU should be fine. If you feel a need for a bit more, you can OC it to 4+ GHz.

[Turtle Rig]

My CPU hangs with the 8700k @ stock and beats it in CPU Queen benchmark test.  So don't tell him he has a bottleneck when he doesn't.  If his CPU isn't OCed then ya it will struggle more.

[Hellbound]

I currently have the cpu@4.4 GHz.  When I first got the cpu it was a little unstable @4.6.. Currently flushing out the loops (surprisingly clear fluid for being 1 1/2 old just sitting here)..

The monitor is the Alienware AW3418DW can be OC to 120hz (new still in box).  RAM set to 3200MHz

 

The general consensus I keep hearing is that I should wait a few months..  But its nice to know I can game without much of a problem on my current cpu/mobo.

[Mattias Edeslatt]

Intel hasn't done any greater gains in the last generations and the 6850K is a beast of a processor, both then and now   And paired with your graphics card(s) there truly is no limit besides poorly optimized games. 

 

I would dare to say that most people won't see any issues with performance if they just deactivated that FPS-counter in their games. The only reason they think there is an issues is because a number is saying so in the corner of the screen, not real world feeling of how smooth (or not) it is on the screen   "-Look mummy, I have a bottleneck... the number on the screen tells me that my game isn't smooth "

 

And "1080p" gaming is just some gimmicky shit that became "standard" when flat screen TV:s and HD/HD-ready became a thing. Resolution and development took a dive to the worse when that happened. Before that it was easy to find monitors with good (and greater) resolutions like 1920x1200 or 2550x1600. Now, still ten years later "1440p" is still something that most don't use, in my world there became a regression as 1920x1200 resolution and greater was good (and a common resolution on (good) screens) when "720p" and "1080p" became the norm. 

 

Yes, I know I'm "old", I was just as mad when TFT became a thing, and still it took years to beat the CRT in terms of screen quality, resolution and refresh rate. Even if a TFT is much nicer to lug around or in terms of real estate, it was like night and day looking at a good CRT and a TFT. Wasn't until "IPS-panel" became available the "TFT-screens" became usable with good viewing angles, colour correctness, panel quality and so on. 

 

What does I mean with all this old folks rambling? Make up some buzzwords and you can sell a polished turd as a diamond...   

[Turtle Rig]

10 hours ago, Mattias Edeslatt said:

Intel hasn't done any greater gains in the last generations and the 6850K is a beast of a processor, both then and now   And paired with your graphics card(s) there truly is no limit besides poorly optimized games. 

 

I would dare to say that most people won't see any issues with performance if they just deactivated that FPS-counter in their games. The only reason they think there is an issues is because a number is saying so in the corner of the screen, not real world feeling of how smooth (or not) it is on the screen   "-Look mummy, I have a bottleneck... the number on the screen tells me that my game isn't smooth "

 

And "1080p" gaming is just some gimmicky shit that became "standard" when flat screen TV:s and HD/HD-ready became a thing. Resolution and development took a dive to the worse when that happened. Before that it was easy to find monitors with good (and greater) resolutions like 1920x1200 or 2550x1600. Now, still ten years later "1440p" is still something that most don't use, in my world there became a regression as 1920x1200 resolution and greater was good (and a common resolution on (good) screens) when "720p" and "1080p" became the norm. 

 

Yes, I know I'm "old", I was just as mad when TFT became a thing, and still it took years to beat the CRT in terms of screen quality, resolution and refresh rate. Even if a TFT is much nicer to lug around or in terms of real estate, it was like night and day looking at a good CRT and a TFT. Wasn't until "IPS-panel" became available the "TFT-screens" became usable with good viewing angles, colour correctness, panel quality and so on. 

 

What does I mean with all this old folks rambling? Make up some buzzwords and you can sell a polished turd as a diamond...   

May my ole Sony FW900 ,,, rest in peace …… thank you for your words,,,, 

[Kalm_Traveler]

It's about as good as it ever was. For example my 6900k @ 4.5ghz with two Titan Xp in SLI still beats the 9900k @ 5.3ghz with a Titan V at 3440 x 1440 resolution in every game that has SLI support (which the handful of games I've been playing off and on over the last few years all do). 

 

Not by a huge margin, mind you. The lower core speeds are still ultimately the bottleneck when comparing CPU and graphics card utilization between both rigs.

 

I'm upgrading the 6900k rig to x299 tomorrow with a delidded 7960x hopefully near 5ghz which I'm pretty sure will put it closer in terms of cpu performance, and having twice as many cores will stomp multi-threaded workloads.