I7700K upgrade

[Surreals]

I currently have a i7700k cpu and 1080 I am currently about to upgrade to a 2080ti RTX Strix I was potentially looking at upgrading my cpu to a i9900k but I would need to replace my current mobo... ive seen a lot of people 50/50 with this as the i9 is still pretty expensive, and a lot of people are saying it’s not worth the upgrade should I stick with getting a i9 or
Upgrade to something different I also need to mention it’s for streaming and playing pc games at high resolution would appreciate your guys help. Thanks

[Fasauceome]

for streaming, the 8700k is a really sizable upgrade over the 7700k, but are you lacking the streaming performance you want?

[KING OF THE DIRTY DANS]

I would just get better internet, the 7700k is a good chip

If you want to stream, I would get ryzen; if your in the market for a new CPU

[Mister Woof]

Try NVENC first

[Surreals]

Thanks for the reply's i make look at getting the the Ryzen 3000

[Alphyte]

For Streaming, I wouldn't stream with CPU, on any mainstream processor right now. Turing NVENC will be superior to CPU encoding unless you want to cripple your performance, as detailed in this video.

[Princess Luna]

Keep the i7 7700K which is still a perfectly fine CPU for gaming.

 

Stream using NVENC on the new RTX 2080 Ti, every one wins.

[Turtle Rig]

1 hour ago, Surreals said:

I currently have a i7700k cpu and 1080 I am currently about to upgrade to a 2080ti RTX Strix I was potentially looking at upgrading my cpu to a i9900k but I would need to replace my current mobo... ive seen a lot of people 50/50 with this as the i9 is still pretty expensive, and a lot of people are saying it’s not worth the upgrade should I stick with getting a i9 or
Upgrade to something different I also need to mention it’s for streaming and playing pc games at high resolution would appreciate your guys help. Thanks

If your CPU is overclocked then honestly you don't really need a upgrade.  THe 2080Ti would shine and not give you a bottleneck.  So let me ask what is your OC ?

[Surreals]

8 hours ago, Turtle Rig said:

If your CPU is overclocked then honestly you don't really need a upgrade.  THe 2080Ti would shine and not give you a bottleneck.  So let me ask what is your OC ?

I’ve only just really looked into over clocking my cpu, like I stated previously I’m a little bit of a novice on a pc’s so will need to look for guidance doing this best place to look?

[jones177]

My i7 8700k bottlenecked the RTX 2080 ti at 1080p and 1440p. My i7 8086k overclocked to 5ghz on all cores did not.

 

Wait to see what AMD has with the new Ryen. If their new chips are not 5ghz get the i9 9900k. 

[Mister Woof]

2 hours ago, jones177 said:

My i7 8700k bottlenecked the RTX 2080 ti at 1080p and 1440p. My i7 8086k overclocked to 5ghz on all cores did not.

 

Wait to see what AMD has with the new Ryen. If their new chips are not 5ghz get the i9 9900k. 

They're the same chip.

 

Did you even OC the 8700k?

[jones177]

2 minutes ago, Plutosaurus said:

They're the same chip.

 

Did you even OC the 8700k?

My i7 8700k was not a good sample. 

Heat was never an issue but stability was over 4.7ghz on all cores. 

 

I have 2 gaming computers with similar specs. When I bought a EVGA FTW3 2080 ti it underperformed. I thought at first that the card was defective so I put it in my computer that uses an EVGA XC 2080 ti with a i7 8086k. The card was fine so I started running tests and found that with the i7 8700k power draw on the card was around 71% running benches at 1080p and 1440p. With the i7 8086k at 5ghz the cards draw was 124% or to its limit.

 

I never had an issue with the i7 7800k when I used a GTX 1080 ti so this was quite unexpected. 

To fix the problem I got another i7 8086k. 

 

After the experience with my i7 8700k I am not interested in playing the silicon lottery, so to me the i7 8086k is not the same as a i7 8700k. 

 

 

[Mister Woof]

Sucks man, that is a bad sample and you pretty much got hit with bad luck. By and large, something like 80%+ 8700ks can do 5ghz or better.