Should i upgrade my 6700k?

[Harshil1996]

Currently after seeing many of the content regarding ryzen and all stuffs i am wondering that should i sell my 6700k and get 1700x for gaming? Means everybody here and there is telling that games will utilise more than 8 threads and all....So how much will 6700k last? Is the gaming perf of ryzen good as compared to i7 6700k(stock)? Also i know intel is releasing 6 core mainstream thats why i am a bit confused rather to upgrade to ryzen/keep whatever i have and later get coffelake 6 core?Are quad cores with hyperthreading falling behind?

[NTDaws]

Only upgrade to a 1700x if you render videos or stream.

[NTDaws]

Dual cores will fall behind soon.

[Energycore]

Any Ryzen 7 is at best the same in games for now. You should instead upgrade once your 6700K isn't enough; live the present not the future.

 

By the time the 6700K isn't enough you'll find something better for less, I bet.

[LHJKO]

You will be fine for a while for gaming

[Aurora906]

I think your performance will be better with the 6700k right now, for games anyway.

[BrinkGG]

Just now, Harshil1996 said:

Currently after seeing many of the content regarding ryzen and all stuffs i am wondering that should i sell my 6700k and get 1700x for gaming? Means everybody here and there is telling that games will utilise more than 8 threads and all....So how much will 6700k last? Is the gaming perf of ryzen good as compared to i7 6700k(stock)? Also i know intel is releasing 6 core mainstream thats why i am a bit confused rather to upgrade to ryzen/keep whatever i have and later get coffelake 6 core?Are quad cores with hyperthreading falling behind?

I have a 6700k at stock and didn't even consider switching to Ryzen when it came out. The 1700x still doesn't have enough single core performance to compete with the 6700k even at stock speed. 

 

[Technomancer__]

keep it until its old

you will gain almost nothing for now (you will lose some gaming performance)

and if you wait they will optimize and finish the bios so you wont have that pain in the ass

[genexis_x]

Normally i7 can last for a long time. No need to upgrade the 6700k.
I bet you will upgrade your GPU more frequent than your CPU when comes to gaming.

[Harshil1996]

This is mainly due to the games like watchdogs 2 and battlefield 1! While i watch those games utilize it upto 90% i feel that will it going to hold me back for next 2 years or so?

[Legeis]

At the moment most games benefit more from higher single core performance and only a very small portion of games use more than 2 threads. So for the time being the 6700k and 7700k are beating most of the higher core count competition on both sides of the isle at least as far gaming goes. 

 

Now if you are doing a lot of rendering work (videos/graphics) or any kind of intensive financial or analytical modeling or doing large projects in CAD programs like autocad then more core are your friend. 

 

Also so side note one game that dose benefit from more cores is City Skylines... Man that game likes to number crunch!!!

[Techicolors]

1 minute ago, Harshil1996 said:

This is mainly due to the games like watchdogs 2 and battlefield 1! While i watch those games utilize it upto 90% i feel that will it going to hold me back for next 2 years or so?

wd2

 

bf1

 

in bf1 it appears an i7 matters more if you have a +60hz panel, like 144hz. in fact if you have a 144hz monitor an i7 will help in maintaining higher fps. wd2 is a bit more cpu-intensive - maintaining 60fps requires at least an i7

however it also depends on your GPU 

 

then again these benches don't take into account the various optimizations Ryzen received these past few weeks so i'm not sure if it's any better 

[Harshil1996]

I am on a 60 hz panel but some peoples are telling that the minimums for ryzen are better and smooth does this also apply to a 60 hz panel?

[Techicolors]

11 minutes ago, Harshil1996 said:

I am on a 60 hz panel but some peoples are telling that the minimums for ryzen are better and smooth does this also apply to a 60 hz panel?

it could be. but that should translate from the graphs via 1% and 0.1% minimums, and it doesn't. it might just be solely from experience, so you have to try running games on a Ryzen PC in-person 

 

it can apply to 60hz. since you'll maintain fps closer to 60hz 

 

edit: well maybe bf1

[alexcheetah]

The differences between cpus is negligible, upgrade your gpu instead if you need more gaming performance. 

[Legeis]

12 minutes ago, alexcheetah said:

The differences between cpus is negligible, upgrade your gpu instead if you need more gaming performance. 

*claps* this is a true answer, here here, I second this motion and would like to bring a vote to the floor

[Kinda Bottlenecked]

Just now, Harshil1996 said:

I am on a 60 hz panel but some peoples are telling that the minimums for ryzen are better and smooth does this also apply to a 60 hz panel?

 

Yes the mins do feel smooth but does it really justify the change of components? 

[Harshil1996]

Actually the matter is if i sell the 6700k now i can get a better resale value but after the 6 core mainstream intel launches the quad cores will be done for! Just wanted to know that ryzen is not that much  bad for gaming right? 

[alexcheetah]

Quad core i7s are no where near obsolete in gaming at the moment, what  kind of games are you trying to play anyways? How far have you overclocked the 6700k?

[Harshil1996]

I know that they are not obsolete currently but have you seen cpu usages in battlefield 1 or watchdogs 2?Why such high cpu usages ? I have no oc on my i7 as i am in on 212x so dont wanna oc but will oc when i get h100i.

[MekaStrix]

On 06/04/2017 at 5:50 AM, Harshil1996 said:

Currently after seeing many of the content regarding ryzen and all stuffs i am wondering that should i sell my 6700k and get 1700x for gaming? Means everybody here and there is telling that games will utilise more than 8 threads and all....So how much will 6700k last? Is the gaming perf of ryzen good as compared to i7 6700k(stock)? Also i know intel is releasing 6 core mainstream thats why i am a bit confused rather to upgrade to ryzen/keep whatever i have and later get coffelake 6 core?Are quad cores with hyperthreading falling behind?

Keep in mind coffeelake cpu's are only round the corner intel hasn't said what socket they will use yet but they are effectively Skylake/Kabylake cpu's with 6 cores and 12threads at the top of the stack 

 

(My bad just noticed you already mentioned the 6 core intel cpu's coming soon, i'm actually thinking of moving from 6900k to the new coffee-lake 6 cores when they drop hopefully the single core will be better considering it's mainstream but who knows.

[MekaStrix]

On 06/04/2017 at 6:04 AM, Legeis said:

At the moment most games benefit more from higher single core performance and only a very small portion of games use more than 2 threads. So for the time being the 6700k and 7700k are beating most of the higher core count competition on both sides of the isle at least as far gaming goes. 

 

Now if you are doing a lot of rendering work (videos/graphics) or any kind of intensive financial or analytical modeling or doing large projects in CAD programs like autocad then more core are your friend. 

 

Also so side note one game that dose benefit from more cores is City Skylines... Man that game likes to number crunch!!!

To a level but my 6900k falls down to i3 performance cause anything over 6 cores cities actually performs worse  my fps drops to 12 with a gtx1080 when I tested the GTA V Cities map 

[Harshil1996]

I have decided to wait for coffeelake as i dont want  to be fall behind as in past  AMD released bulldozers(so much cores) but an i5 crushed them! so i dont want that to happen if i buy ryzen 8 core and it gets rekt by 6 core coffelake. Its better to wait i guess.