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Need help deciding whether to upgrade CPU

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Hey! I currently have a 6800k on an X99 motherboard. Choosing an X99 has basically blocked me off from any normal upgrade path, so I was thinking of other ways to upgrade. Would it be worth it for me to get an older Xeon processor. For example the 2690 v3 (12 cores at 2.6 ghz). I mainly use the computer to game at 1440p, the other specs in my build are 32 gb’s of ram and a gtx 1080! Thanks for any help

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just no. If you can't overclock, the single thread performance will be worse than what you have now and for gaming, that's just asking for worse performance.

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Wait to see if the new AMD processors live up to all the hype...

 

As far as needing to upgrade I dont think it's really worth it if your main purpose on the rig is gaming... There is possibly a slight chance of bottlenecking because of your CPU (unless you have a 1080 non-Ti, then it wont really bottleneck at all), in any case it's not a really high bottleneck and you could always overclock to try to help with that. Unless you're planning on upgrading your GPU as well I'd just wait.

 

I'm still rocking my 3770K and a 1080Ti... There is a big bottleneck when I play BF:V but still good enough for most modern games at high or ultra settings at 1080p.

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Xeons have lower core performance, and older ones even worse.

 

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