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11 minutes ago, BunnyHunter67 said:

Even if I get a 7700K?

Yes! High end systems like an i7 6700K and 1080 SLI only consume about 350 - 400 watts. Power consumption is highly overrated and PSU calculators available online don't help much (because many of them over-estimate the amount of watts to cover their asses). Go for an i7 7700K and overclock the hell out of it, trust me, it won't draw more than 110W worst case scenario (and please buy a good cooler, you'll even be fine with a 6700K but the 7700K runs a little hotter due to higher clock speeds and denser packing of transistors). Hope it helped

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Currently I have an i5 4690K. It gets the job done. But I am wanting to play arma 3 smoother, And more importantly stream. I have next to no knowledge on cpu's so I don't know what im looking for. I have a budget of around 350 USD. For the cpu alone. So what would you recommend me buy? Should I wait for intels 8th generaton, or go with kaby lake. I am ruling out ryzen because of the higher single core performance from intel (Single core performance is really important in arma). Also side note, I am currently running an i5 4690k, a 1070, 850 evo, HDD and 16 gigs of gddr3 (that would be gddr 4 on the new motherboard) on a 600W psu. Should I also upgrade my PSU before I do the cpu upgrade? Thanks for the help! :D

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I7 4790k? 

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6 minutes ago, BunnyHunter67 said:

Single core performance is really important in arma). Also side note, I am currently running an i5 4690k

And more than 4 cores is very important for streaming! I'd get a 1700 or maybe wait for a Ryzen 5 CPU.

 

6 minutes ago, BunnyHunter67 said:

16 gigs of gddr3 (that would be gddr 4 on the new motherboard

Actually, that would be DDR3/4 because GDDR(x) memory is designed mostly for graphics cards.

 

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WAIT FOR MORE RYZEN!!!

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11 minutes ago, BunnyHunter67 said:

Currently I have an i5 4690K. It gets the job done. But I am wanting to play arma 3 smoother, And more importantly stream. I have next to no knowledge on cpu's so I don't know what im looking for. I have a budget of around 350 USD. For the cpu alone. So what would you recommend me buy? Should I wait for intels 8th generaton, or go with kaby lake. I am ruling out ryzen because of the higher single core performance from intel (Single core performance is really important in arma). Also side note, I am currently running an i5 4690k, a 1070, 850 evo, HDD and 16 gigs of gddr3 (that would be gddr 4 on the new motherboard) on a 600W psu. Should I also upgrade my PSU before I do the cpu upgrade? Thanks for the help! :D

 
 

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600 watts is plenty.

 

 

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Just now, CostcoSamples said:

600 watts is plenty.

 

 

 

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Huh?

OP asked if he needed a new PSU.

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OP asked if he needed a new PSU.

Oh.

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2 minutes ago, CostcoSamples said:

600 watts is plenty.

 

 

Even if I get a 7700K?

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Just now, BunnyHunter67 said:

Even if I get a 7700K?

Yes, assuming it's a good PSU and not a left over POS from some crappy system builder and 5 years old.

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11 minutes ago, BunnyHunter67 said:

Even if I get a 7700K?

Yes! High end systems like an i7 6700K and 1080 SLI only consume about 350 - 400 watts. Power consumption is highly overrated and PSU calculators available online don't help much (because many of them over-estimate the amount of watts to cover their asses). Go for an i7 7700K and overclock the hell out of it, trust me, it won't draw more than 110W worst case scenario (and please buy a good cooler, you'll even be fine with a 6700K but the 7700K runs a little hotter due to higher clock speeds and denser packing of transistors). Hope it helped

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12 minutes ago, CostcoSamples said:

Yes, assuming it's a good PSU and not a left over POS from some crappy system builder and 5 years old.

Its a cx600m from corsair. 

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2 minutes ago, WolfTech said:

i7 6700K and 1080 SLI only consume about 350 - 400 watts

well yeah in theory, but for that I wouldn't go under 550W if not 650 or 750...

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Just now, BunnyHunter67 said:

Its a cx600m from corsair. 

it's fine. If more than 5 years old, I would consider replacing it soon-ish (in the next year or two maybe).

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2 minutes ago, Shiv78 said:

well yeah in theory, but for that I wouldn't go under 550W if not 650 or 750...

He said he had a 600W PSU, even if it was 80 Plus Bronze it's still plenty for an i7 and a single GPU. Pascal is also very power efficient 

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1 minute ago, WolfTech said:

He said he had a 600W PSU, even if it was 80 Plus Bronze

This has NOTHING to do with PSU quality... a PSU could be 80+Titanium or Platinum and still be shit. 

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Just now, Shiv78 said:

This has NOTHING to do with PSU quality... a PSU could be 80+Titanium or Platinum and still be shit. 

I brought up efficiency to state the fact that even if the whole 600W weren't available, the system's power consumption wouldn't even come close 600W at 80% efficiency. I don't know the brand or model of his PSU and it wasn't relevant for my answer (yes, if it's shit I wouldn't even wanna hook it up to the shittiest processor because I would be afraid of suddenly taking it down to its grave lol)

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