Upgrade or keep

[UbeLover]

so i have a i5 6500 and a z170-a motherboard  and i have a gtx 1070 coming i just bought and i also have 12gb of ram works fine but i might be looking to upgrade to 16gb  and i was wondering if i should upgrade my cpu to an i5 7500 or a i7 6700 non k i'm worried that there will be a bottle neck i play on 1920x1080 144hz free sync i know my 1070 won't support freesync my dad got me the monitor i use this setup for gaming thanks 

[Derrk]

why no go for a 6700k? your motherboard can handle overclocking as long as you have a decent cpu cooler. And 12gb of ram should be fine, i rarely run into games that use that much. Most games (i've played) cap at around 8-9gb, and battlefield is the only one i've played that went over 12gb 

[JRzoid]

If you can find a good deal on k chip. 

 

I still would absolutely use my 7700k and evga..no question. 

 

But I just feel like dogging out Ryzen the 2600x right now....even simpler system to run and so close to Performance if not better in some things.  

 

 

At this point absolutely MSI or EVGA...so simple of a BIOS and intuitive to use.

It's Asus that's a little weird with Scrolling Menu's and Drop downs and stuff. 

 

MSI has about the easiest flash Mflash I think I ever seen...not hard to find in the bios and will find you're Bios file immediately. 

 

The EVGA I flash in Windows and it went well...but it is showing some weird Clock readings like their lower....