Looking to Upgrade

[ThowanPlays]

Hello everyone,

 

Please excuse me as this is my first post on the forum, but hopefully, this group can also help.

 

I'm currently looking to upgrade from an i7-6850k to i7-8700k though I'm not entirely sure it'll be worth it either. My budget is around $500 (though this could go up $100 if need be) in USD (with no Sales Tax!).

My computer is currently my gaming/recording/editing rig (yes, it has a full-time job) running three monitors. I've been having some issues in Overwatch or other simpler titles however whenever I try to record using the 'optimal' settings through GeForce experience. I'm only recording at a 10,000-bit rate for the accelerated movements on screen. 

 

I've also noticed some issues when trying to edit videos at a resolution of 4K (3 inner videos all at 1080p scaled down to fit) for a versus series I'm in charge of editing. I typically have to playback at half resolution in Premiere Pro 2017.

 

I'm wondering if this could just also be some sort of bottleneck issue as well.  I've currently got 5 storage drives hooked up (1 SSD and 4 HDD), as well as an Elgato Capture Card, installed into one of the PCIe slots. 

 

I've included a screenshot of the current build and proposed upgrade.

[TheGlenlivet]

As long as you don't need teh additional PCI lanes, the 8700K and Z370 will be an upgrade.  At 5GHZ, it will smoke the 6850K in just about everything and should help with some of the issues you are having.  If your budget is 600 then this or a 2700x AM4 set up would be the 2 options to consider.

[ThowanPlays]

22 minutes ago, TheGlenlivet said:

As long as you don't need teh additional PCI lanes, the 8700K and Z370 will be an upgrade.  At 5GHZ, it will smoke the 6850K in just about everything and should help with some of the issues you are having.  If your budget is 600 then this or a 2700x AM4 set up would be the 2 options to consider.

Do you actually know how to find out how many PCIe lanes I'm currently using? I didn't realize that the 8700k only has 16 versus the 6850k's 40. 

[TheGlenlivet]

1 minute ago, ThowanPlays said:

Do you actually know how to find out how many PCIe lanes I'm currently using? I didn't realize that the 8700k only has 16 versus the 6850k's 40. 

How many GPUs and other cards do you have in the PCI slots now?

[ThowanPlays]

Just now, TheGlenlivet said:

How many GPUs and other cards do you have in the PCI slots now?

Currently just using a GTX 1080 and the Elgato Game Capture HD60 Pro.

 

The original plan was to try and get a sub/slave GPU for some other processes, but I think I've dropped that as of recently and would rather build a second rig for what that would've been for. 

[TheGlenlivet]

Just now, ThowanPlays said:

Currently just using a GTX 1080 and the Elgato Game Capture HD60 Pro.

 

The original plan was to try and get a sub/slave GPU for some other processes, but I think I've dropped that as of recently and would rather build a second rig for what that would've been for. 

The z370 motherboard will run the top slot at x16 speed and the next slot at x8.  For GPUs this doesn't matter.  

Your current system has the capability to run them both at x16, depending on what slots they are in.  It looks like the HD60 doesn't need x16 speed so you should be fine with the Z370, or any other modern gaming motherboard.

[Wh0_Am_1]

Welcome to the LTT forums! the 6850k is still a very capable processor, while the 8700k is 15% faster I would not waste my money for that little of an improvement, also for the foreseeable future Microsoft will continue to update Windows 10 as Apple does MacOS, and as far as we know there are no plans for Windows 11. Honestly for your use case I would keep that  6850k the only thing that the newer processor can do that your current one can't is stream Netflix in 4k (you need a Kaby Lake processor or later to do that).

[ThowanPlays]

2 minutes ago, Wh0_Am_1 said:

Welcome to the LTT forums! the 6850k is still a very capable processor, while the 8700k is 15% faster I would not waste my money for that little of an improvement, also for the foreseeable future Microsoft will continue to update Windows 10 as Apple does MacOS, and as far as we know there are no plans for Windows 11. Honestly for your use case I would keep that  6850k the only thing that the newer processor can do that your current one can't is stream Netflix in 4k (you need a Kaby Lake processor or later to do that).

Good to know! Do you know of any places I might want to look to help improve performance? I feel like I'm missing something then...

[Wh0_Am_1]

4 minutes ago, ThowanPlays said:

Good to know! Do you know of any places I might want to look to help improve performance? I feel like I'm missing something then...

A PCIE or M.2 SSD? Your setup is perfect for that, you already have an OP setup for most use cases. This faster drive would be for editing and recording, it would not help much in gaming. Though Nvidia appears to be possibly releasing new cards on 8/20/18 or 8/21/18 so that may be some thing to look out for.

[ThowanPlays]

4 minutes ago, Wh0_Am_1 said:

A PCIE or M.2 SSD? Your setup is perfect for that, you already have an OP setup for most use cases. This faster drive would be for editing and recording, it would not help much in gaming. Though Nvidia appears to be possibly releasing new cards on 8/20/18 or 8/21/18 so that may be some thing to look out for.

Currently, I just have a SATA SSD and I use it as my primary boot drive and a few select programs.

[Wh0_Am_1]

Just now, ThowanPlays said:

Currently, I just have a SATA SSD and I use it as my primary boot drive and a few select programs.

Sata is a huge bottleneck for later faster SSDs a PCIE one can be as much as 5-6 times faster, which may help in such workloads. I would have recommended grabbing Optane but I discovered it only works on Kaby Lake and later...