Am I being stupid?

[tezza192]

DiscussionAm I being stupid? (self.pcmasterrace)

submitted 3 minutes ago by tezza1992

I have a 6 core 5930K at the moment, I just really use my machine for gaming, I fancy selling the CPU and board and getting an I7 7700K and new motherboard board because I have essentially Haswell cores. You think its worth the upgrade for that better single threaded performance?

[Mooshi]

About as worth it as doing several years behind bars for stealing $100 from a convenience store.  I personally wouldn't bother since all the effort required outweighs the return. 

[somerandomguy12]

Yes,

you are.

 

A i7 7700k will likely give you a preformance bump from 0fps to 3fps in games.

[steffeeh]

Wait a while until you see benchmarks of the 7700k in the games you play and compare it to your current CPU (comparing as similar build as possible), then you'll have real life proof if it will make a difference or not.

[Enderman]

8 minutes ago, somerandomguy12 said:

Yes,

you are.

 

A i7 7700k will likely give you a preformance bump from 0fps to 3fps in games.

A lot more than that.

Go look of benchmarks of a 6700k vs a 5820k (almost the same as the 5930k) and see the big difference.

Then imagine double the difference, because the 7700k is supposed to be that much better than the 6700k.

[somerandomguy12]

Just now, Enderman said:

A lot more than that.

Go look of benchmarks of a 6700k vs a 5820k (almost the same as the 5930k) and see the big difference.

Then imagine double the difference, because the 7700k is supposed to be that much better than the 6700k.

This guy is using the CPU just for gaming. Assuming he/she has a decent GPU, the CPU doesn't bottleneck games that much.

[Enderman]

Just now, somerandomguy12 said:

This guy is using the CPU just for gaming. Assuming he/she has a decent GPU, the CPU doesn't bottleneck games that much.

Again, you need to learn your benchmarks.

There is a very significant difference between CPU architectures, even when you have a powerful GPU.

Both the CPU and the GPU contribute to performance, not just one or the other like in a bottleneck situation.

[somerandomguy12]

1 minute ago, Enderman said:

Again, you need to learn your benchmarks.

There is a very significant difference between CPU architectures, even when you have a powerful GPU.

Both the CPU and the GPU contribute to performance, not just one or the other like in a bottleneck situation.

Wow, that is shocking! I guess I do. Thanks for the info.

[Bananasplit_00]

i would say no, its not going to be that much of a differance, it will be better but not in a major way

[Wade_Wilson]

You'd see a benefit.

 

I'd personally downgrade your X99 to Kaby or Skylake and spend that extra money on upgrading your GPU perhaps.

[KillerGamingBro]

29 minutes ago, Enderman said:

A lot more than that.

Go look of benchmarks of a 6700k vs a 5820k (almost the same as the 5930k) and see the big difference.

Then imagine double the difference, because the 7700k is supposed to be that much better than the 6700k.

 

The difference between the 6700k and the 7700k isn't too much, the only difference is clock speed.Although the 6600k is a decent improvement over the  5820k

[Enderman]

1 hour ago, KillerGamingBro said:

The difference between the 6700k and the 7700k isn't too much, the only difference is clock speed.Although the 6600k is a decent improvement over the  5820k

Based on the leaked benchmarks it will be as much better than the 6700k as the 6700k is better than the 4790k.