Upgrade advice needed.

[Rubbleton]

Hello,

 

Here's my situation i've recently upgrade my monitor from a 1080p 60hz to a 1440p 144hz one. When i bought it i knew my system wasn't going to be able to max out this monitor so i was planning on upgrading my gpu this summer.

now playing a game like BF4 i noticed that my cpu is actually bottleknecking my gpu, on medium my gpu drops to 70ish% usage and on low it drops to about 50-60% while getting 80-100 fps. so i'm thinking upgrading my gpu alone won't do anything here, that's why i'm looking to upgrade my cpu aswell.

 

current specs:

gigabyte z170x-ud3

i5 6600k @4.3 Ghz

16gb DDR4 @3Ghz

evga GTX 970 sc

 

as i see it i could either upgrade to a 7700k, or maybe ditch the motherboard aswell and go with something like a ryzen 1700 or an i7 8700k? or maybe i should wait for ryzen 2?

what do you think is the best option here?

 

Thx

 

 

[userzero]

a 1070 and a 7700k I reckon

[NelizMastr]

6600K shouldn't bottleneck a 970 in a game as old as BF4. I'd say the problem lies elsewhere. In BF1 I would've considered a CPU bottleneck as more of an option as that game punishes anyone with just 4 threads.

[J400]

uh, overclock, and buy a 1080ti or something. upgrading to a 7700k and buying a cheaper gpu as a result will not increase your fps noticably. oc your 6600k to 4.8 ghz and that's about all the difference you will ever see. a cpu upgrade past that would be unworth, unless you want an 8700k + for the multithreaded utilities.

[Rubbleton]

the reason i'm getting a bottlekneck on the cpu (i think) is because i'm trying to get 144fps. going from medium to low doesnt make a difference since my cpu is at 100% so i was thinking a more powerful cpu wouldnt have that problem. i'm installing bf1 to see what happens there NelizMastr :). also cant overclock to 4.8ghz on this one J400: my 6600k needs 1.45v the be stable at 4.4

 

thank you for the quick replies

[Airdragonz]

You won't see much of an improvement with a 7700k. Not worth the money really. I'd invest in an 8600k and new mobo. 

[Rubbleton]

btw forgot to mention that i would like to upgrade to whatever succeeds the 1080ti  

[Ordinarily_Greater]

41 minutes ago, Rubbleton said:

btw forgot to mention that i would like to upgrade to whatever succeeds the 1080ti  

well then i would get 7700K for that machine so at least it can handle a 1080ti better than i5-6600k

[Frankieanime158]

The 7700k would be just fine, 8700k would be incredible if you could afford the platform jump. I love Ryzen, I have it myself, but due to have a major deficit in raw single threaded performance and clock speed, it's incapable of absurdly high frame rates. They wouldn't bottleneck the GPU exactly, but once the GPU is maxed out, Ryzen won't carry it much further. An OC'd 7700k though will get you 150-200fps easy.

[Rubbleton]

found a good deal on 7700k (260 euros) so i ordered one, ty guys alot for the advice