Upgrades to Current PC

[Perez253]

Currently I am running a 4440 I5  with a 1080 with 16 gb of corsair vengeance 3200 i believe.

I want to upgrade my Processor Motherboard and RAM

Intel Core i7 6700K

ASUS ROG Maximus VIII Hero Alpha

16 GB Corsair Dominator Platinum 3200 MHZ

 

What are your thoughts on this I stream all the games that I play on my computer I was wondering what the limitations would be as far as streaming on this computer what games could I not play on ULTRA and stream if any that are currently out.

[it_dont_work]

What is your current mobo's model?

 

[Guest]

4 minutes ago, Perez253 said:

Currently I am running a 4440 I5  with a 1080 with 16 gb of corsair vengeance 3200 i believe.

I want to upgrade my Processor Motherboard and RAM

Intel Core i7 6700K

ASUS ROG Maximus VIII Hero Alpha

16 GB Corsair Dominator Platinum 3200 MHZ

 

What are your thoughts on this I stream all the games that I play on my computer I was wondering what the limitations would be as far as streaming on this computer what games could I not play on ULTRA and stream if any that are currently out.

Which graphics card you plan to use?

[Perez253]

Currently I have an ASUS ROG maximus VII Hero

 

[Perez253]

Just now, dexxterlab97 said:

Which graphics card you plan to use?

I have a ASUS STRIX 1080

[it_dont_work]

You'd probably easil;y get away with just upgrading your cpu to an i7 4790 if you can find one at a good price.

[Perez253]

Just now, it_dont_work said:

You'd probably easil;y get away with just upgrading your cpu to an i7 4790 if you can find one at a good price.

I dont want to have to upgrade for awhile main reason for why i bought the 1080

 

[kelvinhall05]

3 minutes ago, dexxterlab97 said:

Which graphics card you plan to use?

1080 i believe from what he said

 

[gtx1060=value]

his ram won't be compatible 

5 minutes ago, kelvinhall05 said:

1080 i believe from what he said

 

i5 4th gen is ddr3, i7 6700k and lga1151 uses ddr4

[Moress]

6 minutes ago, Perez253 said:

I dont want to have to upgrade for awhile main reason for why i bought the 1080

 

Skylake isn't too terribly more powerful than Haswell, Id say saving the money by putting a 4790k in there would be worth while. Maybe wait for KabyLake to hit the desktop instead.

[Perez253]

Just now, gtx1060=value said:

his ram won't be compatible 

i5 4th gen is ddr3, i7 6700k and lga1151 uses ddr4

I know thats why im getting dominator platinum 3200 16gb

 

[gtx1060=value]

Just now, Perez253 said:

I know thats why im getting dominator platinum 3200 16gb

 

sorry, i skimmed through too quickly, i thought you said vengeance for your new parts 

[it_dont_work]

10 minutes ago, Perez253 said:

I dont want to have to upgrade for awhile main reason for why i bought the 1080

 

That's cool, a new board would give you the most benefit for things like m.2, pci-e booting and ddr4. Performance wise, compared the just putting in a 4790, the newer upgrade wont be that much faster, 15% at most maybe. Better thermals, and icp plus a little better single core perf for the newer i7. Your current board is also still pci-e gen 3 and current.

 

Up to you man. Everything you've picked works together and is higher performance wise, the hyper threading and 16gb ram will make streaming and capture more feasible, (although I think I saw a yb comparison of a 6600 doing the same).

 

I'd go wityh the new mobo and system, just for the newer platform alone and ddr4 +m.2.

 

EDIT: found a comparision vid, he is using an 980ti though,  most all games are within margin of error for the two cpu's

 

[Perez253]

1 minute ago, it_dont_work said:

That's cool, a new board would give you the most benefit for things like m.2, pci-e booting and ddr4. Performance wise, compared the just putting in a 4790, the newer upgrade wont be that much faster, 15% at most maybe. Better thermals, and icp plus a little better single core perf for the newer i7. Your current board is also still pci-e gen 3 and current.

 

Up to you man. Everything you've picked works together and is higher performance wise, the hyper threading and 16gb ram will make streaming and capture more feasible, (although I think I saw a yb comparison of a 6600 doing the same).

 

I'd go wityh the new mobo and system, just for the newer platform alone and ddr4 +m.2.

How would streaming be on newer games like battlefield one coming out soon and games like dark souls 3. Would i be able to stream on ULTRA using the 4790K or would it be more beneficial on that end to get the 6700k

[it_dont_work]

I highly doubt there would be any noticeable difference performance wise, if you can stream on one at ultra you shouldn't have any problems with the other. My only problem would be (atleast where I am) is that both cpu's cost the same making it hard to justify buying older tech new.

[Perez253]

16 minutes ago, it_dont_work said:

I highly doubt there would be any noticeable difference performance wise, if you can stream on one at ultra you shouldn't have any problems with the other. My only problem would be (atleast where I am) is that both cpu's cost the same making it hard to justify buying older tech new.

yea only thing is with buying the new tech you have to spend more money on new tech to go with it. But i mean eventually im going to have to upgrade to 1151 slot or something past that eventually.

[it_dont_work]

Well eventually yea...You could always save a little money going a zeon, there's plenty that will fit on your current mobo (google the cpu support list. I just checked the specs (your board) and you've got the slightly older m.2 (will pci-e boot as well), with new drives being backwards compatible there's no reason why you couldn't buy one and put it in an upgrade a little later on (10Gb's is still pretty dam good).

 

Both i7's perform pretty much the same, and the z97 chipset is still full of a lot of modern features. I'd still pick up the older chip and stay on your current platform, if you need it buy a pci-e usb 3.1/type c card. It all just depends on what your going to do with it, and if it's not much different from what you've explained already you'll not really notice a difference with the new platform compared to just the cpu upgrade.

 

[Perez253]

 

19 hours ago, it_dont_work said:

Well eventually yea...You could always save a little money going a zeon, there's plenty that will fit on your current mobo (google the cpu support list. I just checked the specs (your board) and you've got the slightly older m.2 (will pci-e boot as well), with new drives being backwards compatible there's no reason why you couldn't buy one and put it in an upgrade a little later on (10Gb's is still pretty dam good).

 

Both i7's perform pretty much the same, and the z97 chipset is still full of a lot of modern features. I'd still pick up the older chip and stay on your current platform, if you need it buy a pci-e usb 3.1/type c card. It all just depends on what your going to do with it, and if it's not much different from what you've explained already you'll not really notice a difference with the new platform compared to just the cpu upgrade.

 

What is the purpose of M.2 I remember being told about it previously but I don't remember exactly what it was.

[it_dont_work]

6 hours ago, Perez253 said:

 

What is the purpose of M.2 I remember being told about it previously but I don't remember exactly what it was.

Primarily for storage interfaces, for pci-e ssd's