CPU Upgrade?

[Poiyo]

Budget (including currency): £120 - £200

Country: United Kingdom

Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: Red Dead Redemption 2, Yakuza 7: Like A Dragon, Destiny 2

Other details (existing parts lists, whether any peripherals are needed, what you're upgrading from, when you're going to buy, what resolution and refresh rate you want to play at, etc): 

I have been playing Yakuza 7, and tried to play Battlefield 2042 but found that my cpu is at exceedingly high amounts of usage and when it comes to Battlefield it's completely unusable.

I don't believe it would be down to my GPU that be a 1070ti and I have a ram upgrade on the way already.

 

I'm looking to upgrade from my i5 6600k but when it comes to looking at things online I am helpless, I've only ever bought prebuilt or second hand.

Any suggestions?

Thanks, Poiyo.

[Pixelfie]

Do you currently have DDR3 or DDR4 RAM and how much?

[Poiyo]

Just now, Pixelfie said:

Do you currently have DDR3 or DDR4 RAM and how much?

I have 16gb DDR4 2133 but I have a 16gb 3200mhz kit coming through Amazon soon.

[Poiyo]

3 minutes ago, 8tg said:

Is this a Z270 or Z170 board with a known 3rd party bios patch to coffee lake? If you have a board which can do that your options go from the 7700k at best to the 8700k and some can even do the 9700k

When I look in system information it says z170xp-sli-cf I’m not sure what that means sorry

[Pixelfie]

5 minutes ago, Poiyo said:

I have 16gb DDR4 2133 but I have a 16gb 3200mhz kit coming through Amazon soon.

If you could stretch the budget just a little bit, I would go for this. If not, get the i3 with this motherboard. The 12100F is faster than a 7700K (max most boards can handle, unless you can find a modded BIOS like said above)

 

PCPartPicker Part List

CPU: Intel Core i3-12100F 3.3 GHz Quad-Core Processor  (£89.50 @ Technextday) 
Motherboard: Gigabyte B660M GAMING X DDR4 Micro ATX LGA1700 Motherboard  (£125.99 @ Technextday) 
Total: £215.49
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2022-07-18 22:50 BST+0100

[Poiyo]

3 minutes ago, Pixelfie said:

If you could stretch the budget just a little bit, I would go for this. If not, get the i3 with this motherboard. The 12100F is faster than a 7700K (max most boards can handle, unless you can find a modded BIOS like said above)

 

PCPartPicker Part List

CPU: Intel Core i3-12100F 3.3 GHz Quad-Core Processor  (£89.50 @ Technextday) 
Motherboard: Gigabyte B660M GAMING X DDR4 Micro ATX LGA1700 Motherboard  (£125.99 @ Technextday) 
Total: £215.49
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2022-07-18 22:50 BST+0100

I think that going for the 12400f and the new motherboard would be within my financial reach.

 

Thank you guys very much for you help.

[Pixelfie]

10 minutes ago, Poiyo said:

I think that going for the 12400f and the new motherboard would be within my financial reach.

 

Thank you guys very much for you help.

In that case I would recommend going for a 5600. It's cheaper while performing very similar. It's slightly slower but not enough to notice it. Only thing is that LGA 1700 should support 13th gen too, while AM4 won't support Ryzen 7000 (at least AMD didn't confirm this).

 

PCPartPicker Part List

CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 5600 3.5 GHz 6-Core Processor  (£167.90 @ Amazon UK) 
Motherboard: Gigabyte B550 GAMING X V2 ATX AM4 Motherboard  (£94.99 @ AWD-IT) 
Total: £262.89
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2022-07-18 23:06 BST+0100