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CarterL02
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I dont have much knowledge on PCs and hardware so I thought this would be the place to go. I currently have an i5 9400f (sure its stock not overclocked) 16GB of RAM and an RTX 2060 (the single fan one with a white stripe) on an asus prime h310m-r r2 motherboard. 144hz monitor. The CPUs Ive looked at are the i7 7700, the one my brother has, the i79700k and the i9 9900k. Having read so much and getting confused by all the different things people have to say on the topic, I really cant make a confident decision. My soul intention for my PC is gaming, apart from watching movies and other general uses, high FPS while keeping the game looking nice (without long loading times) is the goal for my ideal gaming experience. Any info at all is appreciated, many thanks lads and lasses.

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Which exact motherboard do you have?
And you won't be able to get an i7 7700 with a 9th gen chip in your board currently. 8th and 9th gen used LGA1151v2, while 6th and 7th gen used LGA1151v1.

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Which processor is best for gaming? Or which processor is best for your motherboard? 

 

The 7700 isn't going to work in an H310 board. That's an LGA1151 v1 chip, your motherboard is LGA1151 v2, and not compatible with 6th and 7th gen, only 8th and 9th.

 

The best thing you can upgrade to is an i9 9900k, but I would not trust an Asus Prime H310 with that. Realistically? A 9700F. 

 

But with an RTX 2060, you're going to have a GPU bottleneck anyway, so likely your performance will be identical with a 9400F, 9700F, and 9900K. Moreover, this PC is still fine for 1080p 144, so you don't need to upgrade anything.

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1 minute ago, ragnarok0273 said:

Which exact motherboard do you have?

 

4 minutes ago, CarterL02 said:

 on an asus prime h310m-r r2 motherboard.

 

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1 minute ago, CarterL02 said:

That is the exact motherboard. I didnt know there were 2 types of LGA1151. So which would be compatible with mine?

You just got two answers telling you, it'd be kinda nice if you read them?

 

4 minutes ago, Aereldor said:

The 7700 isn't going to work in an H310 board. That's an LGA1151 v1 chip, your motherboard is LGA1151 v2, and not compatible with 6th and 7th gen, only 8th and 9th.

 

6 minutes ago, ragnarok0273 said:

Which exact motherboard do you have?
And you won't be able to get an i7 7700 with a 9th gen chip in your board currently. 8th and 9th gen used LGA1151v2, while 6th and 7th gen used LGA1151v1.

 

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Ok, so the 7700 is ruled out. Have you actually had or used an i7 9700 or i9 9900 to speak on experience?

 

Right now Id say Im leaning more towards an i7. Can you tell me why you wouldnt "trust" an i9 9900k with an asus prime h310m-r r2? and I dont know what you mean by realistically? a 9700f

 

Also, I was considering upgrading the motherboard along with the CPU but I dont want to pour too much money into the build as its not even a year old yet and is my first PC, but upgrading from an i5 to i7 brings the bottlneck percentage down around 4% but I dont know if thats significant or not.

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1 minute ago, CarterL02 said:

an i9 9900k with an asus prime h310m-r r2?

the motherboard is pretty bad and it's weak VRMs can not handle 9900k well at all. 9700 it might, but certainly not 9900k. but that 9400f is decent only meaningful upgrade would be 10600k/10700k or Ryzen 5000

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7 minutes ago, CarterL02 said:

brings the bottlneck percentage down around 4% but I dont know if thats significant or not.

how you measure this? Keep in mind bottleneck calculators are very bad. also your gpu is the bottleneck here on most games.

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4 minutes ago, SavageNeo said:

the motherboard is pretty bad and it's weak VRMs can not handle 9900k well at all. 9700 it might, but certainly not 9900k. but that 9400f is decent only meaningful upgrade would be 10600k/10700k or Ryzen 5000

Thanks thats good info mate, so if I upgrade to an i7 9700k, my motherboard will work fine with it? Then upgrade board later on. Or wait till I can afford an i9 9900k along with a better more capable motherbaord? Also what motherboards will be best suited for these newer more powerful CPUs. I know Im waffling but any help is appreciated

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1 minute ago, CarterL02 said:

i7 9700k, my motherboard will work fine with it?

yes. but you wont really see a difference on most games since 9400f is already good for your gpu. upgrading your gpu first could help more than a cpu upgrade. IT also depends what exact games you play. but 9700k is not much better than 9400f

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I didnt want to upgrade GPU tbh because of nvidia sharting out all these new cards and Id just paid around 500 for the RTX 2060, espescially  with AMD competing with their new card, thats why I thought of upgrading CPU then realising my motherboard is pretty shit. lmao man its a whole new world this is compared to consoles XD

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round 500 for the RTX 2060,

what? That card is worht like 250$. used 2080 would have been better choice. 9400f goes well up to rtx 2080 or 5700XT.

 

What games do you play?

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15 hours ago, SavageNeo said:

yes. but you wont really see a difference on most games since 9400f is already good for your gpu. upgrading your gpu first could help more than a cpu upgrade. IT also depends what exact games you play. but 9700k is not much better than 9400f

Its usually FPS games CS COD Battlefield Tarkov R6S Rust but also campaign games where I like the graphics all the way up

 

15 hours ago, SavageNeo said:

what? That card is worht like 250$. used 2080 would have been better choice. 9400f goes well up to rtx 2080 or 5700XT.

 

What games do you play?

correction on the price it was around £300 I bought it not long after release

 

I know it wouldve been but I had to budget the PC at £900 and bought it as a whole pre biult unit

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4 minutes ago, CarterL02 said:

Its usually FPS games CS COD Battlefield Tarkov R6S Rust but also campaign games where I like the graphics all the way up

it comes down to what you play the most. if you play CS and R6S most cpu upgrade will help. but not to 9900 or 9700 that upgrade is not worht anything.

 

if you play rust or campaign more better gpu will be much better buy

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1 minute ago, CarterL02 said:

I know it wouldve been but I had to budget the PC at £900 and bought it as a whole pre biult unit

byuing prebuilds are usually a bad iea. they have gargabe psu and motherboard. what exact psu do you have?

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9 minutes ago, CarterL02 said:

It says its a cronus 600w fx pro

should be fine with better gpu with no pwoer spikes like used 5700XT, used rtx 2080 etc.

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the psu is manufactured by CWT and has operating temp of 0-40C which is decent, but it can be a bad CWT or good CWT.

 

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3 minutes ago, CarterL02 said:

can you elaborate a little please

sure sorry, if somebody else comes here they can soo taht.

 

We have a psu tier list here. But yoru psu is not there. The psu is probably tier C  which will be fine with gpus without real power spikes like 5700XT and rtx 2080. used. 

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