Planned Upgrade from 6700K

[aj101202]

Budget (including currency): £800

Country: England 

Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: games wise I tend to play a lot of BeamNG.Drive (almost 700 hours on steam ha), I also play Forza horizon 5, Call of duty cold war, Subnautica, citys skylines and VR games on my Oculus Rift S

Work wise I do Photo editing on Lightroom / Photoshop

Other details 

Existing Rig is a Core i7 6700K 16GB DDR4 Ram and a RTX 2070. storage I have two 1TB NVME drives a Samsung 970 EVO and a SK Hynix one, cooler wise I have a 360mm corsair all in one, also have a 10Gig Intel NIC to connect to my NAS 

I have a 1440P monitor @ 165hz 

 

Need help on what CPU I should get next I quite like the look of the 12th Gen Intel but not sure what the best one for me is any help would be great cheers 

I think my GPU is fine still currently I feel it is being held back by my older CPU

[YoungBlade]

12th gen Intel is probably the way to go right now. If you're willing to migrate your current RAM and do the new build in the same case, you can get a lot of CPU and motherboard for £800 - you can easily get a 12700K with a solid Z690 DDR4 motherboard, like the MSI Z690 Tomahawk WiFi DDR4 or the Asus ROG Strix Z690-A D4 for around £600, which would obviously leave enough money to include a RAM upgrade if you feel that's necessary, or you can just save the money for a future upgrade.

[Jonathan Lee]

Two options,

 

Intel:

PCPartPicker Part List

CPU: Intel Core i7-12700K 3.6 GHz 12-Core Processor  (£356.76 @ Amazon UK) 
CPU Cooler: Deepcool AK620 68.99 CFM CPU Cooler  (£58.02 @ Amazon UK) 
Motherboard: MSI PRO Z690-A DDR4 ATX LGA1700 Motherboard  (£169.98 @ Amazon UK) 
Memory: Corsair Vengeance LPX 32 GB (2 x 16 GB) DDR4-3200 CL16 Memory  (£107.00 @ Amazon UK) 
Total: £691.76
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2022-06-06 23:55 BST+0100

 

AMD:

PCPartPicker Part List

CPU: AMD Ryzen 9 5900X 3.7 GHz 12-Core Processor  (£355.79 @ Amazon UK) 
CPU Cooler: Deepcool AK620 68.99 CFM CPU Cooler  (£58.02 @ Amazon UK) 
Motherboard: MSI MAG B550 TOMAHAWK ATX AM4 Motherboard  (£126.93 @ Amazon UK) 
Memory: Corsair Vengeance LPX 32 GB (2 x 16 GB) DDR4-3200 CL16 Memory  (£107.00 @ Amazon UK) 
Total: £647.74
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2022-06-06 23:56 BST+0100

 

Go with whatever brand you feel more comfortable with