Need upgrade for 2500K

[scottyseng]

So I have two computers right now, the NAS and my desktop. The desktop currently has a 2500K (OC to 4.6GHz), 16GB DDR3 (1600MHz), and a Z77 motherboard.

 

The NAS has a Xeon E5-2695V3 (14 core, 28 thread, 2.2GHz...the turbo only goes to 2.4GHz).

 

I'm selling the 2500K / RAM / motherboard off to a friend for him to use in a budget gaming PC so the 2500K will retire (the gaming PC is only going to be used for very light gaming) and I can use the funds to buy a new CPU (Currently with my usual stuff open, IDEs, browsers, and content creation programs, CPU usage floats at 50% at idle).

 

I thought I would be able to survive a while using the NAS as my temp desktop, but I put my 980 Ti into it and ah, the Xeon is bottlenecking quite hard. I don't play any hard to run games, just RPG games ported over from the PS3/PS4. They require only use a single core though (Terrible port, I know). My NAS at 2.4GHz was bottlenecking the GPU really bad (One core would be at 100% load , but the GPU would jump up and down from 10% to 70% GPU usage / the FPS was unstable).

 

I've decided I probably need a new platform to be a gaming only pc (I plan to make a dual Xeon workstation server in the future for rendering / heavy content creation). I'm having trouble debating between a 6600K, 6700K (Or kaby lake equivalent), or a 6800K for the gaming CPU. I kind of regretted not getting a 2600K back in the day when I had the chance (Wow, it's been almost 4 years already) for hyper threading. I'm not sure if the 6800K would be worth it vs just using the NAS's Xeon instead (and getting a better GPU for the NAS for rendering).

 

My usual use is a lot of content creation, 3D modeling (3DS Max / Maya / Z brush), blueprinting (Revit), programming (Visual Studio / Dreamweaver / IntelliJ), and Photoshop. If things currently get too hard for the 2500K to handle, I will flip over and use the NAS to do work. I don't usually game much at all.

[GDRRiley]

get the 6700/7700k as it is better for gaming than the 6800k and you have a server for uses  that want more power.

[scottyseng]

1 minute ago, GDRRiley said:

get the 6700/7700k as it is better for gaming than the 6800k and you have a server for uses  that want more power.

Yeah, that was what I was thinking as well. I was thinking the 6800K wasn't worth it since the PC probably wouldn't be doing enough to justify it (Or if it needed to, I'd use the server since it uses a lot less power than a overclocked 6800K (I've compared to my cousin's 5820K...the Xeon is slightly faster but runs at a much lower power usage).