Cpu Upgrade

[zuisk]

Hello everyone,

I would like all the feedback possible with this decision.

 

So i recently just started producing a lot more disposable income. I got a 10700k for free from my brother because he upgraded and have been running it pretty much unoverclocked for almost 2 years now. But I made a mistake of buying 2 NVME’s that are incompatible with my MOBO (they don’t register even on Speccy or Bios) I believe because the slot in my motherboard is a Gen4 Slot when this cpu only has Gen 3 PCIE lanes so it won’t allow the nvme slot to work. I can buy a new motherboard which is an option.

 

I was thinking about upgrading my 10700k to a 5800x3d, 7700x or a 7800x3d. I’m leaning towards the 7700x due to the increase of the x3d chips price and unavailability. Because I need to be able to use these 2 NVME that are just paper weights. Plus I wouldn’t mind a performance increase.

 

I looked at a bunch of benchmarks of games (I don’t do any work related stuff on my PC) But i saw that the 7700x and 5800x3d have maybe a 7-10% performance increase in most games IF that much. So it’s deterring me from upgrading and instead going out and buying a motherboard with more pcie 3.0 slots. I would like all suggestions please and help my decision.

 

PAIRING THESE CPUS WITH A 4070.

[191x7]

In order for the first m.2 slot to work on the board you (probably) have the CPU needs to be the 11th generation. It's not the CPU or the SSD-s being incompatible.

[zuisk]

7 minutes ago, 191x7 said:

In order for the first m.2 slot to work on the board you (probably) have the CPU needs to be the 11th generation. It's not the CPU or the SSD-s being incompatible.

yes but the 11 series intel chips lowkey suck. My brother also has a 5900x extra. But all the mobos with 4nvme slots for am4 are all out of stock or used because of the old platform.

[Zenny232323]

19 minutes ago, zuisk said:

yes but the 11 series intel chips lowkey suck.

Where in the lord's name is that coming from? 11th gen intel cpus are the best budget cpus you can get within that intel line.
Anything better you'd be looking at a different board atleast.
I'd say 11400 and higher should be enough for a 4070(in more cpu intensive games 11400 might not be enough)

[Somerandomtechyboi]

2 hours ago, zuisk said:

yes but the 11 series intel chips lowkey suck. My brother also has a 5900x extra. But all the mobos with 4nvme slots for am4 are all out of stock or used because of the old platform.

1200 just sucks as a whole unless you get a good used deal on it, only reason youd run it these days is to fuck around with cometlake 4600+ or rocketlake g2 5600+ overclocks but thats about it as it gets obliterated by zen3 and especially the x3d chips

 

as for the nvmes what capacity are they? might be able to get a 4tb or larger on a single nvme so you dont have to deal with multiple nvmes hence problem solved without having to spend a shit ton more on an expensive high end board that has a bunch of nvme slots