is it worth it upgrade my i7 6700 to a i5 10400 for gaming?

[happyleonardo14]

Im getting 15% bottleneck from pc build with my RTX 2060 + i7 6700

 

I like to play 1080p - 144fps high settings 

 

it's time to upgrade to an i5 10400?

 

 

[LuigiNumber1]

You could go for a 9th gen i7, they are still very good CPUs for gaming and wouldn’t have any issues with bottlenecking a 2060

[happyleonardo14]

i7 9700 is about $329

i5 10400 is about $170

 

acording to cpuserbenchmark 

 

i5 10400 is slighty better than an i7 9700 

[SavageNeo]

13 minutes ago, happyleonardo14 said:

Im getting 15% bottleneck from pc build with my RTX 2060 + i7 6700

 

I like to play 1080p - 144fps high settings 

 

it's time to upgrade to an i5 10400?

 

 

there shoudl be no bottleneck with 6700 and rtx 2060. to answer your question 10400 will be better if you play at 1080p. I would go for AMD at this point.

[SavageNeo]

Just now, happyleonardo14 said:

acording to cpuserbenchmark 

do not trust those!. 9700 is pretty much equal to 10400 in gaming but it has more cores.

[manikyath]

14 minutes ago, happyleonardo14 said:

Im getting 15% bottleneck from pc build with my RTX 2060 + i7 6700

please for the love of god stop using 'bottleneck calculators'

 

here's how to decide if it's time to upgrade your cpu:

- are your games reaching the framerates you're hoping to get? => dont upgrade.

- is your cpu usage very high in games (>80% on all cores the game is utilizing), and gpu usage not at 100%? => upgrade.

[happyleonardo14]

1 minute ago, SavageNeo said:

do not trust those!. 9700 is pretty much equal to 10400 in gaming but it has more cores.

ok the thing here even if those cpu's are equal i5 10400 is almost half the price compared to an i7 9th gen 

[mrigmo]

Why buy Intel? Just get an AMD  Ryzen 5600X and you’ll be doing better then anything Intel has on the market.

[Morris_lee_9116]

nope, if all you did is gaming then your 6700 is still very good

[happyleonardo14]

Just now, mrigmo said:

Why buy Intel? Just get an AMD  Ryzen 5600X and you’ll be doing better then anything Intel has on the market.

bro that cpu is out of stock from almost any official website thanks to scalpers, and I just want to spend no more than $350 cpu + motherboard that why I was planning to buy an i5 10400 

 

ryzen 5600x + motheboard it probably cost more than  $500 - $530 thanks to scalpers and I just interested in gaming performance but I think Im gonna stay with the i7 6700 until 12th generetion intel. 

[SavageNeo]

Just now, happyleonardo14 said:

until 12th generetion intel. 

I would not count on Intel really beating AMd at this point.

[Morris_lee_9116]

2 minutes ago, happyleonardo14 said:

bro that cpu is out of stock from almost any official website thanks to scalpers, and I just want to spend no more than $350 cpu + motherboard that why I was planning to buy an i5 10400 

 

ryzen 5600x + motheboard it probably cost more than  $500 - $530 thanks to scalpers and I just interested in gaming performance but I think Im gonna stay with the i7 6700 until 12th generetion intel. 

there's no need, your 6700 is still very capable, and for the most majority of games 4C8T is enough

[happyleonardo14]

2 minutes ago, SavageNeo said:

I would not count on Intel really beating AMd at this point.

We'll see what happens I'm open to buying both amd and intel as long as there are units available on official sites and not from scalpers, thanks for the help bro

[happyleonardo14]

Just now, Morris_lee_9116 said:

there's no need, your 6700 is still very capable, and for the most majority of games 4C8T is enough

thanks for the help

[Morris_lee_9116]

Just now, happyleonardo14 said:

thanks for the help

i checked your spec list in your profile, I would upgrade that R9 Nano to something more modern like modern mid tier GPU at MSRP prices(yes I know scalpers and stuff but one day it will reach there; or maybe you can use that money to treat yourself with a high performance wireless mouse or maybe a low latency wireless gaming headset

[mrigmo]

16 minutes ago, happyleonardo14 said:

bro that cpu is out of stock from almost any official website thanks to scalpers, and I just want to spend no more than $350 cpu + motherboard that why I was planning to buy an i5 10400 

 

ryzen 5600x + motheboard it probably cost more than  $500 - $530 thanks to scalpers and I just interested in gaming performance but I think Im gonna stay with the i7 6700 until 12th generetion intel. 

I have a 3800x and you can still find the 3xxx cpus everywhere. If you upgrade your cpu you’ll have to get an Intel motherboard too which will be the same or more. 

[Seyrren]

19 minutes ago, Morris_lee_9116 said:

i checked your spec list in your profile, I would upgrade that R9 Nano to something more modern like modern mid tier GPU at MSRP prices(yes I know scalpers and stuff but one day it will reach there; or maybe you can use that money to treat yourself with a high performance wireless mouse or maybe a low latency wireless gaming headset

His profile is out of date, read the first post its a i7 6700 with a RTX 2060 :P.

 

[happyleonardo14]

6 minutes ago, Morris_lee_9116 said:

i checked your spec list in your profile, I would upgrade that R9 Nano to something more modern like modern mid tier GPU at MSRP prices(yes I know scalpers and stuff but one day it will reach there; or maybe you can use that money to treat yourself with a high performance wireless mouse or maybe a low latency wireless gaming headset

I upgrade my r9 nano to a RTX 2060 I forgot to upgrade my profile, thanks for the help again.

 

  I don't support scalpers I only pay retail prices  ryzen 5 5600x is a great cpu Unfortunately, this great benefit is lost with the price increase of the scalpers, I will wait more with this cpu (i7 6700)  that still works quite well.

 

thank you 

[Morris_lee_9116]

2 minutes ago, happyleonardo14 said:

I upgrade my r9 nano to a RTX 2060 I forgot to upgrade my profile, thanks for the help again.

 

  I don't support scalpers I only pay retail prices  ryzen 5 5600x is a great cpu Unfortunately, this great benefit is lost with the price increase of the scalpers, I will wait more with this cpu (i7 6700)  that still works quite well.

 

thank you 

i see, wireless mouse and headset it is then

[happyleonardo14]

3 minutes ago, mrigmo said:

I have a 3800x and you can still find the 3xxx cpus everywhere. If you upgrade your cpu you’ll have to get an Intel motherboard too which will be the same or more. 

I did't know that, in your case that you already have the compatible motherboard things change completely

[Seyrren]

Maybe it would be better to post this separately, as an i7 6700+RTX2060 user myself i can say that this combo is very well balanced, if you want more FPS then i suggest not to waste money now but, rather raise it for a new system (well more like CPU+MOBO+RAM+GPU Combo, the rest of your hardware is fine).

[frozensun]

1 hour ago, happyleonardo14 said:

Im getting 15% bottleneck from pc build with my RTX 2060 + i7 6700

 

I like to play 1080p - 144fps high settings 

 

it's time to upgrade to an i5 10400?

 

 

no way you are getting bottleneck with 6700,how did you figure out you have bottleneck?

I have 6700K and that CPU is  good enough for games still.and I play even at 1440p...

So please explain me how did you manage to find you have bottleneck.

[Kilrah]

Probably looked at the useless userbenchtrash

[happyleonardo14]

26 minutes ago, frozensun said:

no way you are getting bottleneck with 6700,how did you figure out you have bottleneck?

I have 6700K and that CPU is  good enough for games still.and I play even at 1440p...

So please explain me how did you manage to find you have bottleneck.

Did a research from google and i found a  pcbuild website to calculate i7 6700 + rtx 2060 at 1080p bottleneck

 

https://pc-builds.com/calculator/Core_i7-6700/GeForce_RTX_2060/0FU137lu/#:~:text=Intel Core i7-6700 (Clock,10% is considered as bottleneck.

 

also I did a research on youtube I saw that i5 10400f (slightly less performance against a regular i5 10400) got better performance in almost any game against i7 6700k around 20-30fps more so i tought It would be more difference with my cpu in performance  i7 6700 not "k"

 

the reason I was planing to upgrade is because I found a great price i5 10400 + b460m motherboard for only $270.

 

 

 

 

 

[happyleonardo14]

20 minutes ago, Kilrah said:

Probably looked at the useless userbenchtrasha

and you're probably right