CPU upgrade

[Donnabis]

Hello everyone, so i have an MSI Pro Series Intel Z270 PC mate motherboard and i have a i5 6400 i got from a friend for the price of Monster Hunter World.

the board specs say 6th and 7th gen CPUs, so if i want to upgrade what would i have to do? Bios flash? or just chuck that sucker in???

 

Also, what CPU do i get? i do lots gaming and lots of youtube watching. some very light video editing.. sometimes.

 

other specs ATM

-8gb 2666 Ram (i will get another 8 soon)

-GTX 1050ti

[Princess Luna]

Your motherboard already is 200 series so it supports both 6th and 7th natively, there's only 3 CPUs worth bothering with, the i7 6700K - i7 7700 - i7 7700K anything different wouldn't compensate the cost,try looking at the used market for the lowest priced from a believable ad.

Now I would say though that focusing on replacing the GPU first might be more appealing, the GTX 1050 Ti is relatively weak even for high end 1080p gaming.

 

a RTX 2060 would allow you quite much, just do video rendering with CUDA and all is fine. Have you made sure your memory has XMP on?

[themctipers]

you do not need to update your BIOS because the motherboard already supports 7th gen intel (200 series supports 7th gen, 100 series supports 6th gen by default, and 7th gen with a update)

 

just chuck it in I guess, the only worthy upgrades imo are the 6700k and the 7700k, but I would go for a GPU upgrade first since you do a lot of gaming 

[Donnabis]

6 minutes ago, Princess Cadence said:

Your motherboard already is 200 series so it supports both 6th and 7th natively, there's only 3 CPUs worth bothering with, the i7 6700K - i7 7700 - i7 7700K anything different wouldn't compensate the cost,try looking at the used market for the lowest priced from a believable ad.

Now I would say though that focusing on replacing the GPU first might be more appealing, the GTX 1050 Ti is relatively weak even for high end 1080p gaming.

 

a RTX 2060 would allow you quite much, just do video rendering with CUDA and all is fine. Have you made sure your memory has XMP on?

i had been waiting on getting a better GPU because they had been so over priced. now that the mining craze has died down i think i will do the GPU upgrade first. 

i just wasnt to sure how good my CPU was because its the lowest on the 6th gen list for the i5's. you never hear anyone talking about the 6400 / 7400 you know?

[themctipers]

3 minutes ago, Donnabis said:

i had been waiting on getting a better GPU because they had been so over priced. now that the mining craze has died down i think i will do the GPU upgrade first. 

i just wasnt to sure how good my CPU was because its the lowest on the 6th gen list for the i5's. you never hear anyone talking about the 6400 / 7400 you know?

the 6400 is fine for gaming

it's still a nice little 3ghz 4c 4t skylake, it's not a 2c 4t celery, GPU first and then CPU

[Princess Luna]

6 minutes ago, Donnabis said:

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The i5 6400 is going suffice for 60fps gaming in 95%ish of games out there, it's really just a few hand pick examples such as AC Odyssey that will hammer your CPU down.

If you want to focus 60fps highest settings possible then you can go for very good GPUs already.

[Donnabis]

9 minutes ago, Princess Cadence said:

The i5 6400 is going suffice for 60fps gaming in 95%ish of games out there, it's really just a few hand pick examples such as AC Odyssey that will hammer your CPU down.

If you want to focus 60fps highest settings possible then you can go for very good GPUs already.

So the 2060 or the 1660ti? i do try to get my games at 60fps for my 60hertz screen. 

 

oh and i do think i remember putting my memory to the XMP.

[Princess Luna]

1 minute ago, Donnabis said:

So the 2060 or the 1660ti? i do try to get my games at 60fps for my 60hertz screen. 

Brand new yes, second hand any pascal 1070 and higher is a pick too.