Is it wise to upgrade to Kaby Lake now?

[FreshGuy6204]

I have a Z170 motherboard and a Skylake i7 6700 NON-K CPU.

Since I'm not planning to upgrade my motherboard anytime soon, is it wise to upgrade to a pre-owned i7 7700K?

 

Let's say I can get a 4.8GHz overclock on that new CPU, the performance increase will be (4*4.8)/(4*3.7)*100%-1=29.7%

That's huge!

 

So, should I? Thanks.

[Guest]

I would wait a little longer to see if prices will drop much. (Maybe $10-$20 but who knows.)

[NinJake]

Have you encountered any scenarios where your non-k 6700 wasn't able to keep up? Otherwise I'd just wait it out for a few more years and put the money elsewhere.

[seon123]

Will you actually benefit from the higher CPU performance? If no, then don't upgrade

[Princess Luna]

2 minutes ago, FreshGuy6204 said:

(4*4.8)/(4*3.7)*100%-1=29.7%

That's huge!

That's not really how it works

 

As someone who owned an i7 6700 for quite a while I can assure you there won't be all that gain going with the i7 7700k unless you have either a 1080 or 1080ti (Vega64) and plans playing on high refresh (144hz).

[i_build_nanosuits]

19 minutes ago, FreshGuy6204 said:

I have a Z170 motherboard and a Skylake i7 6700 NON-K CPU.

Since I'm not planning to upgrade my motherboard anytime soon, is it wise to upgrade to a pre-owned i7 7700K?

 

Let's say I can get a 4.8GHz overclock on that new CPU, the performance increase will be (4*4.8)/(4*3.7)*100%-1=29.7%

That's huge!

 

So, should I? Thanks.

Performance won't scale linearly with clockspeed just like that...that's one thing...also, do you NEED the extra performance? no you don't because what the 7700K can do well the 6700 can do well too...and where the 6700 struggle, the 7700K will struggle just as much...it's not worth it....hold on to this until you NEED it and by then you'll have much better upgrade options.

[xsimplyjosh]

I would personally hold onto it. You should be fine. Even i dont overclock my 7700k all the time lol (i did get the 7700k at offer price brand new pre coffee which is why i hv it. 380aud at may 2017) sometimes i let it run on stock speeds and i find that quite fast enough.

 

the only time ill overclock it is if I’m doing something productive since i hardly notice the difference in gaming esp at 1440p 144+hz