Please help with some advice!

[AdamBo]

Hi Guys

 

I am trying to decide on some forced upgrades (as my CPU has finally given up) 

 

My Current setup

B85M-D3H Motherboard  (1150)

Core i7 4770 @ 3.4 GHZ

2x 8 GB of DDR3 RAM

GTX 1060  6GB 

 

 

So my problem is because of the motherboard socket is only 1150 I cannot get a good upgrade CPU without changing motherboard/CPU and RAM to DDR4

 

I am thinking I upgrade my rig to

to be decided Motherboard but 1151 Socket

Core i7 6700K  4GHZ

2x 8 GB DDR4 RAM

GTX 1060 6GB

 

 

 

I largely use my computer for 3 Monitor simulator racing. The current setup was not really keeping up anyway but what I would like to know is will this upgrade be sufficient to run CPU heavy simulator games such as Iracing, Rfactor 2 etc

 

Last thing I want to do is spend the money to upgrade and find out its still not good enough!

 

any advise helpful

 

Cheers

[SLAYR]

That would be plenty fine for those games.

 

You can still buy haswell cpus if you don't want to upgrade the entire pc.

 

http://pcpartpicker.com/product/yT2kcf/intel-cpu-bx80646i74770k

 

 

[Halo Spartan128]

44 minutes ago, AdamBo said:

Hi Guys

 

I am trying to decide on some forced upgrades (as my CPU has finally given up) 

 

My Current setup

B85M-D3H Motherboard  (1150)

Core i7 4770 @ 3.4 GHZ

2x 8 GB of DDR3 RAM

GTX 1060  6GB 

 

 

4790k should work fine

[Spudbilly]

Do you know if your sim games would scale well with sli for your 1060. If your run a high resolution triple monitor setup...your gpu could be a little bit of a problem. 

[Halo Spartan128]

11 hours ago, Halo Spartan128 said:

4790k should work fine

 

12 hours ago, AdamBo said:

Hi Guys

 

I am trying to decide on some forced upgrades (as my CPU has finally given up) 

 

My Current setup

B85M-D3H Motherboard  (1150)

Core i7 4770 @ 3.4 GHZ

2x 8 GB of DDR3 RAM

GTX 1060  6GB 

 

You will need to update your BIOS probably so keep that in mind before you change to a 4790k

[AdamBo]

14 hours ago, Spudbilly said:

Do you know if your sim games would scale well with sli for your 1060. If your run a high resolution triple monitor setup...your gpu could be a little bit of a problem. 

Yeah GTX 1060 apparently is not SLI compatible (I have not had a good look but I don't think mine has the bridge ports)... its definitely a mistake and I wouldn't recommend it. 

 

I guess the aim is to somewhat future proof with the motherboard/ram and cpu even if I have to upgrade or trade graphics cards down the track to a better version or SLI version