Need some advice

Thelillypad123 · August 8, 2016

I've been looking all online and really cannot decide whether I'd be better off saving myself $250 and just getting an i7 4790k to go with my z97 board and gtx 1070, or if I should make the jump to skylake and get an i7 6700k, new ram and a new mobo.

Honestly, I don't know if the performance boost is there to bite the bullet and spend this extra cash, or if I should just get the 4790k. All I know is that my i5 is just not cutting it with my 144Hz 1080p Monitor. The stutter is unbearable, and for some reason my cpu just maxes out at 100% on all cores at the same FPS as my gtx 780 was getting.

For those of you who are a little bit more knowledgable on the situation, I could really use a pointer and some reasoning as to why I should go that way.

Thanks guys.

Also, if you do recommend the 6700k, what kind of mobos pair well with those?

Simon771 · August 8, 2016

Waiting for kaby lake isn't an option?

Not sure when exactly they will release it, but I'm waiiting for that.

If not, just get i7 4790k ... it's almost the same as 6700k.

And if you want i7 6700k, you will need new motherboard and ram, so it would cost you more.

Also i7 4790k is better for overclocking than i7 6700k.

Thelillypad123 · August 8, 2016

14 minutes ago, Simon771 said:

Waiting for kaby lake isn't an option?

Not sure when exactly they will release it, but I'm waiiting for that.

If not, just get i7 4790k ... it's almost the same as 6700k.

And if you want i7 6700k, you will need new motherboard and ram, so it would cost you more.

Also i7 4790k is better for overclocking than i7 6700k.

How far out is kaby lake?

And btw, how does your 4790k pair with your 1070? Is it a bottleneck? (Although I'm assuming you don't play at 1080p)

Simon771 · August 8, 2016

21 minutes ago, Thelillypad123 said:

How far out is kaby lake?

And btw, how does your 4790k pair with your 1070? Is it a bottleneck? (Although I'm assuming you don't play at 1080p)

Not sure when kaby lake comes out. Should be Q1 or Q2 2017. But again, don't quote me on this Not 100% sure.

My i7 4790k works perfectly fine with gtx 1070. No bottleneck whatsoever.

I play on 1440p without any problems.

i7 4790k and i7 6700k are the best CPUs for gaming right now. Those won't be bottleneck even for 2x GTX 1080s.