CPU & Motherboard Upgrade

[Anthropophagic64]

Budget (including currency): $400-$700

Country: Canada

Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: Gaming and streaming. Everything from 2D indie titles to games like Star Citizen

Other details: Typically I like to upgrade in waves to try and keep costs down and performance up. Currently everything is running well enough with my current setup, though I'm starting to see my CPU load Maxing out more and more often. So it looks like it might be the next thing to update.
Looking to keep as much of my existing build as I can

Keeping:
RAM: Corsair Vengeance LPX 32 GB (2 x 16 GB) DDR4-3200 CL16 Memory
SSD: Samsung 970 Evo 1TB M.2
Case: Phanteks Eclipse ATX Mid Tower + 3xiCue  ML120 fans

Cooler: Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO (This might need to be replaced)

Power: EVGA G2 750 W 80+ Gold Certified Fully Modular ATX Power Supply
 

Looking to replace: CPU: Intel-i7-6700K @4ghz

Motherboard: Gigabyte Z170X-UD5

So yeah, I have a 7 year old CPU and I think that will be my next bottleneck.

At this point, I start to get a little lost. I find it a lot harder to keep up with what's new and good, or what I might need to avoid/wont work together. I've tried to use places like PartPicker to avoid any embarrassing pitfalls, but still looking for a second opinion. 

Looking to upgrade TO:

Motherboard: ASUS AM4 TUF Gaming X570-Plus (Wi-Fi) ATX Motherboard with PCIe 4.0, Dual M.2,

CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 5700X - Ryzen 7 5000 

So if anyone knows if there is something else that might get more bang for buck, of if I'm about to make a newbie mistake, I'd love for any feedback.

Thanks!
 

[Zando_]

Not sure what price you're getting for those, the other platform worth considering is Intel's Adler Lake chips: 

 

PCPartPicker Part List: https://ca.pcpartpicker.com/list/FfHrv3

CPU: Intel Core i5-12600K 3.7 GHz 10-Core Processor  ($369.99 @ Amazon Canada) 
Motherboard: MSI PRO B660-A DDR4 ATX LGA1700 Motherboard  ($179.99 @ Amazon Canada) 
Total: $549.98
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2022-06-17 14:55 EDT-0400

 

B660 still supports RAM overclocking (just not CPU, but these CPUs don't have much headroom anyways AFAIK) so you don't need a Z board. 

[Anthropophagic64]

Wonderful, 

thank you for the tips.

I had them priced:
Ryzen 7 - $359 from NewEgg
Asus Motherboard - $259 from NewEgg
Total - $618+tax

The options you provided not only look to come in a little cheaper but look to be comparable if not maybe a little better. I'm not someone who overclocks, I just want something that will be decent for 4-7 years without breaking the bank.

Follow up question. With the Alder Lake, I'd need to look into a bigger cooler, correct? They have larger chips now?

[Queen Chrysalis]

11 minutes ago, Anthropophagic64 said:

Wonderful, 

thank you for the tips.

I had them priced:s
Ryzen 7 - $359 from NewEgg
Asus Motherboard - $259 from NewEgg
Total - $618+tax

The options you provided not only look to come in a little cheaper but look to be comparable if not maybe a little better. I'm not someone who overclocks, I just want something that will be decent for 4-7 years without breaking the bank.

Where in canadia are you?  If this upgrade isn't urgent and you frequent the US and A, I've seen the 12600k at micropenis for as low as $230 with an additional $20 off for bundling with a motherboard.

[Ryuikko]

29 minutes ago, Queen Chrysalis said:

I've seen the 12600k at micropenis for as low as $230 with

At where now?

[Zando_]

23 hours ago, Anthropophagic64 said:

Follow up question. With the Alder Lake, I'd need to look into a bigger cooler, correct? They have larger chips now?

Isn't the size of the chip that matters unless you go huge like Threadripper/EPYC. They are hot but high clocked Intel chips always have been. Get a decent 120mm air cooler and you should be good. I'd just use the one you already have and see how it goes, coolermaster should be able to send you the mounting hardware for LGA1700. No need to buy a new one if what you have now ends up working.

[Queen Chrysalis]

On 6/17/2022 at 4:35 PM, Anthropophagic64 said:

Follow up question. With the Alder Lake, I'd need to look into a bigger cooler, correct? They have larger chips now?

1 hour ago, Zando_ said:

Get a decent 120mm air cooler and you should be good. I'd just use the one you already have and see how it goes, coolermaster should be able to send you the mounting hardware for LGA1700. No need to buy a new one if what you have now ends up working.

My boyfriend is running a 12600k on a 240 AiO and it stay's under 60C in game.  A 120 air cooler might get hotter but that's OK, these chips are allowed to run at like 105C now, so it getting up to 70C/80C should be totally fine, especially since unless you have a 3090 or something, it's never gonna get fully loaded just gaming.  And even when you are streaming, the e-cores that'll be encoding your stream don't really get that hot anyway.  Cooler Master may even send you the LGA11700 kit free with proof of purchase for the CPU and the cooler, (corsair did for us).