Cpu/mobo Upgrade

[Evolved_Evil]

I have an 3rd gen i7 3770 non-k, a z97 gaming 7 and 32gb of ddr3.

I'm noticing a bit of bottle necking with the old cpu when running multiple games. 

I think it's time to upgrade to a i5 or i7 8th gen

I need a good and somewhat affordable maybe around $200-300 motherboard.

I just don't know a good lga 1151 board thats either a 299 or a 370

Anyone really love a board that they can recommend?

also probably gonna get 16gb of ddr4

 

any help is appreciated

[1Reshiram12]

Do you have a 3770 or a 4770k?

[Evolved_Evil]

2 minutes ago, 1Reshiram12 said:

Do you have a 3770 or a 4770k?

Whoops, 4770 non-k.

 

Also forget to mention, my gpu water block that i had on my 970 had leaked inside my pc slowly and i think there is a bit of damage with the external audio connectors, so i've been wanting to replace this board for a while, but also might use the old cpu/mobo combo for another pc build. 

[Streetguru]

15 minutes ago, Evolved_Evil said:

 

What is the total budget for your upgrade?

There's also no reason to upgrade if you're only gaming at 60hz.

 

What game are you having issues running? And at what settings? And a 970 is your GPU? What resolution?

[DocSwag]

What's your total budget for the upgrade? Do you mainly just game?

[1Reshiram12]

1 minute ago, Evolved_Evil said:

Whoops, 4770 non-k.

That's not what you said nor what is in your signature but okay. 4770 should be pretty solid, and shouldn't bottleneck a 970 in games. It's single core performance is similar to a new HEDT CPU like the 7800X and even the 8700k would be a marginal upgrade.

[Evolved_Evil]

I've been running the new mordor, black desert, witcher 3, assassin's creed origins in 4k on a this 60hz samsung i have, the higher resolutions were crazy expensive when i bought it. I also use it for my xbox one x, runs really smooth. 

Typically, my Black desert is minimized while i play other games and probably am in queue for league at the same time and i can sometimes see stutter when running all the applications.

I also run Photoshop, and ableton music editor. 

 

I have a water blocked 1080ti, I run it in overclock mode through aurorus genie.

I also bought a 900d series pcie ssd, and would like to be able to get full read/writes.

The bios I have on my z97 is quite shit tbh, not too many options.

 

I mean, I'd like to spend under 600$, 700$ for sure if its worth the extra.

 

 

[Evolved_Evil]

4 minutes ago, 1Reshiram12 said:

That's not what you said nor what is in your signature but okay. 4770 should be pretty solid, and shouldn't bottleneck a 970 in games. It's single core performance is similar to a new HEDT CPU like the 7800X and even the 8700k would be a marginal upgrade.

Yeah, i messed that up quite a while back and never was bothered enough to edit it. maybe i should.

[deeej]

Well tbh I don't see why you would run multiple games at the same time, since you can only play one at a time, but okay. Upgrading to an i7 4770K might do the trick though. Get it to 4.5Ghz or maybe even 5, and you should be good. I think it's definitely cheaper than buying an 8th gen i7.

[Evolved_Evil]

 

2 minutes ago, fredih said:

Well tbh I don't see why you would run multiple games at the same time, since you can only play one at a time, but okay. Upgrading to an i7 4770K might do the trick though. Get it to 4.5Ghz or maybe even 5, and you should be good. I think it's definitely cheaper than buying an 8th gen i7.

the problem with an older series cpu is the bottle necking of the cpu/motherboard for the intel ssd.

[deeej]

They support SATA 3 too. Are you using an NVMe SSD with a SATA 3 connector/adapter? The Sata connectors on the MoBo should deliver the full speed...

[Evolved_Evil]

Just now, fredih said:

They support SATA 3 too. Are you using an NVMe SSD with a SATA 3 connector/adapter? The Sata connectors on the MoBo should deliver the full speed...

It's a PCIe ssd, i plugged into a dmi

[deeej]

Ah,

20 minutes ago, Evolved_Evil said:

PCIe ssd

I guess then you need more lanes? Then I agree with you that a newer generation CPU should work better.

[Streetguru]

4 hours ago, Evolved_Evil said:

Typically, my Black desert is minimized while i play other games

There's your issue then? Like you keep the full game running but minimized?

Your CPU is not going to bottleneck for 60hz in those games as far as I can tell

 

4 hours ago, Evolved_Evil said:

900d series pcie ssd

Why do you need an optane SSD? A sata SSD is fine for 90% of people, what are you doing that requires the fast reads/writes of optane?And how much storage does it even have?

[Evolved_Evil]

8 hours ago, Streetguru said:

There's your issue then? Like you keep the full game running but minimized?

Your CPU is not going to bottleneck for 60hz in those games as far as I can tell

 

Why do you need an optane SSD? A sata SSD is fine for 90% of people, what are you doing that requires the fast reads/writes of optane?And how much storage does it even have?

I didn't make this thread to discuss what I need it for, i simply asked for motherboard recommendations. I'm not here to debate.

I'm tired of this locked 4770.

[Streetguru]

2 hours ago, Evolved_Evil said:

I didn't make this thread to discuss what I need it for, i simply asked for motherboard recommendations. I'm not here to debate.

I'm tired of this locked 4770.

In any event, you didn't list your full budget for the CPU+Motherboard+RAM+CPU cooler, so post that and I can give you some options.

 

and may I ask why you bought a 900P SSD? It doesn't seem like your workload requires that at all.

And you only do photoshop work and gaming?