6700K a bottleneck?

[bobkontrololuje]

I currently own an Intel Core i7 6700k. Its doing its job, it runs at stock speeds at 55 celcius, not complaining. I was thinking about uprading my 980ti soon to the next gpus from Nvidia and I feel like it might cap my system. Majority of what I use the PC for is gaming and basic video editing as well as photoshop. With my ram running at 2133 and a quad core, I am not sure my PC is up to date and I might lose like 20 fps when compared to the systems with the same card but better cpu and ram once I upgrade. On the other hand, people use older CPUs and they are fine. What are your thoughts? If I would upgrade I would buy the Ryzen 3600 or 3700 when they come out in early 2019.

 

I'm new so I dont know how all of this works yet...

[Brooksie359]

honestly don't upgrade till you see that you do. get the next gpu you want and if the cpu is really holding you back then you can upgrade but i wouldn't preemptively upgrade. I mean the 6700k is a really nice cpu. 

[Skiiwee29]

6700k is still a good CPU. You shouldnt have any bottlenecks with it. 

[WereCat]

I run i7 4770k 4.5GHz, 2200MHz CL9 DDR3 paired with GTX 1080ti.

 

Is it enough to push games on my 165Hz QHD monitor? Yes.

Do I lose FPS compared to 8700k with DDR4? Definitely.

Do I care? No.

 

But I also want to upgrade when Zen2 comes out. I don't really care about game performance as long as it will not be a downgrade.

But where I see the 4770k getting old is when I fire up Blender or PremierePro or HEVC encode, etc...

 

That's why I want to upgrade.

 

Your 6700k is still plenty fast for any game, so I wouldn't worry about bottleneck in games.

I would OC it with the RAM as well though

 

[bobkontrololuje]

1 hour ago, WereCat said:

I run i7 4770k 4.5GHz, 2200MHz CL9 DDR3 paired with GTX 1080ti.

 

Is it enough to push games on my 165Hz QHD monitor? Yes.

Do I lose FPS compared to 8700k with DDR4? Definitely.

Do I care? No.

 

But I also want to upgrade when Zen2 comes out. I don't really care about game performance as long as it will not be a downgrade.

But where I see the 4770k getting old is when I fire up Blender or PremierePro or HEVC encode, etc...

 

That's why I want to upgrade.

 

Your 6700k is still plenty fast for any game, so I wouldn't worry about bottleneck in games.

I would OC it with the RAM as well though

 

OC ram? I've heard of it but not much. Is every ram model compatible. I own G.skill Ripjaws V. Thank you for the responses appreciate it

[WereCat]

1 hour ago, bobkontrololuje said:

OC ram? I've heard of it but not much. Is every ram model compatible. I own G.skill Ripjaws V. Thank you for the responses appreciate it

You can OC any RAM as long as both your CPU and motherboard supports it. If you got Z170/Z270 motherboard with your 6700k, then you can. Its just a lot of tinkering if you want to get a good OC and stability testing takes a lot of time.

[bobkontrololuje]

11 hours ago, WereCat said:

You can OC any RAM as long as both your CPU and motherboard supports it. If you got Z170/Z270 motherboard with your 6700k, then you can. Its just a lot of tinkering if you want to get a good OC and stability testing takes a lot of time.

How much can I gain from OC a 2133. There are temperature limitations so what are the limits that prevent the RAM from running at 3200mhz what are possible drawbacks to OC and dangers?

[WereCat]

2 hours ago, bobkontrololuje said:

How much can I gain from OC a 2133. There are temperature limitations so what are the limits that prevent the RAM from running at 3200mhz what are possible drawbacks to OC and dangers?

Silicone lottery is a thing but most 2133MHz kit can hit 2600MHz without much of a difficulty, unless you are really unlucky.

Drawbacks are that stability testing is very time consuming and you really want to make sure that your RAM is not spitting error otherwise you may encounter data corruption. Testing with Memtest86 is recommended for at least 6 hours+ after you are done with OC... there must be 0 errors.