i5 6500 Replacement

[Tups]

Hi all,

 

>I'm thinking about changing my CPU, I get some lags on AC Odyssey (when I get into big cities) and BFV (everything is fine until I join a 64 server).

>I play at 1080p. I'm not an hardcore gamer and would like just a solid 60 FPS experience across all my games.

 

It feels like my lags are CPU bound but I could be wrong..

Should I stay blue team or go AMD ?

 

My configuration is :

 

i5-6500

GTX 1070 EVGA

12 GB RAM

ASUS PRIME B250-M

 

Thanks y'all
 

[aisle9]

With those games, yeah, that could be an issue. The i7-6700 and i7-7700 are the best you can do. You can get their K variants if you want, but be aware that those will not overclock on your board. If you do go with a 7000-series CPU, make sure to update your BIOS with the 6500 installed so you don't run into trouble with Kaby Lake not being recognized.

[bdz19872005]

Yea, I would fully agree with the i7 recommendation. I haven't used AMD myself so I can't comment on that. My rig is close to yours.

I5-6500

RTX 2060

 

Especially in CPU bound games like the newer AC or BFV the I5 seems to struggle to maintain 60 fps (and put the GPU to sleep to boot) 

[Princess Luna]

i7 7700 is the only CPU that makes sense upgrading to if you want to keep most of your hardware as is.

[aisle9]

3 minutes ago, ActuallyMediocreOC said:

Side note: It's kinda depressing for 6th gen to be lagging, by all means the chip is pretty competent.

It's not the architecture. It's the thread count. Modern AAA games are being designed to take as many as eight threads and have their way with them (sometimes all the threads they can get, really), and a true quad without hyperthreading/SMT is going to hold you back on games where the CPU is going to have a lot of things going on at once.

[KarathKasun]

3 minutes ago, aisle9 said:

It's not the architecture. It's the thread count. Modern AAA games are being designed to take as many as eight threads and have their way with them (sometimes all the threads they can get, really), and a true quad without hyperthreading/SMT is going to hold you back on games where the CPU is going to have a lot of things going on at once.

Yep.  In some cases a FX-8000 series CPU can give you a more stable FPS than a core/ryzen quad core.  Its not worth the massive performance deficit in other cases, but it highlights just how thread heavy newer games are.

[aisle9]

3 minutes ago, KarathKasun said:

Yep.  In some cases a FX-8000 series CPU can give you a more stable FPS than a core/ryzen quad core. 

I wouldn't go quite that far...

[KarathKasun]

1 minute ago, aisle9 said:

I wouldn't go quite that far...

I did not say higher FPS, more stable FPS... less frame drops.

[aisle9]

1 minute ago, KarathKasun said:

I did not say higher FPS, more stable FPS with less frame drops.

Well, yes, a steady 20 is more stable than 60-70

[KarathKasun]

1 minute ago, aisle9 said:

Well, yes, a steady 20 is more stable than 60-70

Well, 20-30 is better than 60, 0, 70, 0, 60.

[Tups]

Hello all,

 

Thanks a lot, I've managed to downregulate the FPS drop on BFV by tweaking a bit the settings (Borderless and Future frame rendering ON). I think I'll go with the i7 7700 no K as I don't have a mobo that could exploit the overclock anyways.