Will upgrading help?

[lXLuckyXl]

i have a 960 gpu and a amd 8320 and was wondering if getting a i5 6600 or 6600k would make a difference in gaming. in games like battlefield 1 or rainbow six siege. will i be able to run these games at higher quality? 

[AverageHardware]

An Intel Skylake processor will blow the 8320 out of the water in every way.

[tlink]

2 minutes ago, lXLuckyXl said:

i have a 960 gpu and a amd 8320 and was wondering if getting a i5 6600 or 6600k would make a difference in gaming. in games like battlefield 1 or rainbow six siege. will i be able to run these games at higher quality? 

watch cpu & gpu usage during gaming, if the cpu doesnt hit 100% and the gpu does than the gpu is the bottleneck, if the cpu hits 100% then the cpu is the bottleneck. i personally don't think your gpu is the bottleneck, and if it is then i think your cpu would become the bottleneck. i would first upgrade the cpu and mobo, then the gpu.

[Redsun20]

yeah, a CPU upgrade would likely help you out a lot in games, not to mention every day use

[vorticalbox]

6 minutes ago, AverageHardware said:

An Intel Skylake processor will blow the 8320 out of the water in every way.

Not in multi threaded work loads.

[AverageHardware]

3 minutes ago, vorticalbox said:

Not in multi threaded work loads.

The single threaded performance advantage balances out 4 less physical cores. (In this specific instance. i5 6600k vs 8320)

[DXMember]

You want to play Battlefield 1 or Rainbow Six at higher quality?

Why is upgrading your CPU the first choice?

Have you considered getting a bigger GPU?

[AverageHardware]

1 minute ago, DXMember said:

You want to play Battlefield 1 or Rainbow Six at higher quality?

Why is upgrading your CPU the first choice?

Have you considered getting a bigger GPU?

Both these games require strong single threaded CPU performance, which the 8320 isn't too good at.

The 960 will play these games on high @ 1080p.

[lXLuckyXl]

so if i want better gaming performances would you recommend me keeping my 8320 and getting a better graphics card?

[DXMember]

2 minutes ago, AverageHardware said:

Both these games require strong single threaded CPU performance, which the 8320 isn't too good at.

The 960 will play these games on high @ 1080p.

you can overclock it to like 5GHz and run the games a ultra 1440p or 4K

[Redsun20]

I would advise against that, as your CPU doesn't have great single threaded performance, which will be a bottleneck in games

[SLAYR]

1 minute ago, Jorgen297 said:

There's almost no real world applications where an FX processor beats a Skylake, only synthetic benchmarks. 

Assuming you mean the sklake i5, Gaming with 4+ threads, rendering, video editing, running 4+ vms, really if you can use the threads the fx series is a better choice, but it also has drawbacks such as higher wattage.

 

2 minutes ago, lXLuckyXl said:

so if i want better gaming performances would you recommend me keeping my 8320 and getting a better graphics card?

Yes, something like a 1060/rx 480 would be a good upgrade.

[vorticalbox]

1 minute ago, Jorgen297 said:

There's almost no real world applications where an FX processor beats a Skylake, only synthetic benchmarks. 

 

6 minutes ago, AverageHardware said:

The single threaded performance advantage balances out 4 less physical cores. (In this specific instance. i5 6600k vs 8320)

Some game engines can use 8 threads of a CPU frost bite for example. I wasn't suggest that the @lXLuckyXl keep the 8320 just that in certain situations the fx chips do rather well. I personally, would that the i5 as most games have a lot of AI calculations where the stronger cores would be better thought with the right motherboard and cooling you could OC the nuts off it

[Mike Soda]

1 minute ago, Jorgen297 said:

There's almost no real world applications where an FX processor beats a Skylake, only synthetic benchmarks. 

I can name one example unfortunately, RuneScape. Although only true in the following extreme example, FX 8350 VS i3-6100. The game can't take advantage of multiple threads & even on it's newer NXT client is still heavily CPU bound just like WOW. Likewise, a true 4 core CPU at lower clock speed would perform better than an OC'd 2 core 4 thread one.

[lXLuckyXl]

what version/ model for the 1060 would you recommend  

[airdeano]

2 minutes ago, lXLuckyXl said:

what version/ model for the 1060 would you recommend  

welcome to the Linus Tech Tips forums!

what resolution/monitor are you using?

what operating system?

[Mike Soda]

2 minutes ago, Jorgen297 said:

do you even need a cpu for runescape? ran that game back in 2005 on god know what cpu lol

It's changed a lot unfortunately & most of that happened under a year after I got my current PC over 5 years ago. As with other MMO's though I feel it's main issue is trying to display too many things at once even when lower hardware is used. Whether you're on my AMD Athlon X2 260 + 1GB Radeon HD 6450 or an i7-6700k + GTX 980Ti. It'll still try to load every single player around you, no matter if that's 10 or 100.