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How much better is an i5 8400 than the i3 8100

psydox
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Hey, I'm thinking of making an upgrade to my PC.

I am having a problem determining how much of an FPS boost I would get in general when upgrading to an i5 8400 from an i3 8100.

I mainly play Arma 3, modded Fallout and Skyrim (with ENBs and such) and VR games.

 

My current specs:

GPU: GTX 1070 8gb Windforce OC edition

CPU: i3 8100

MOBO: Z370 Aorus Ultra gaming

RAM: 16gb of HyperX and Corsair ram (Two 4gb sticks of each company)

PSU: Corsair 550w

 

 

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Since you've got a Z370 board you should look at an 8600K if you wanted go for an i5.

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4 minutes ago, psydox said:

Hey, I'm thinking of making an upgrade to my PC.

I am having a problem determining how much of an FPS boost I would get in general when upgrading to an i5 8400 from an i3 8100.

I mainly play Arma 3, modded Fallout and Skyrim (with ENBs and such) and VR games.

 

My current specs:

GPU: GTX 1070 8gb Windforce OC edition

CPU: i3 8100

MOBO: Z370 Aorus Ultra gaming

RAM: 16gb of HyperX and Corsair ram (Two 4gb sticks of each company)

PSU: Corsair 550w

 

 

Conventional wisdom holds that Cores>Threads.

 

Threads are nice, but they have their own drawbacks.

Linux Daily Driver:

CPU: R5 2400G

Motherboard: MSI B350M Mortar

RAM: 32GB Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4

HDD: 1TB POS HDD from an old Dell

SSD: 256GB WD Black NVMe M.2

Case: Phanteks Mini XL DS

PSU: 1200W Corsair HX1200

 

Gaming Rig:

CPU: i7 6700K @ 4.4GHz

Motherboard: Gigabyte Z270-N Wi-Fi ITX

RAM: 16GB Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4

GPU: Asus Turbo GTX 1070 @ 2GHz

HDD: 3TB Toshiba something or other

SSD: 512GB WD Black NVMe M.2

Case: Shared with Daily - Phanteks Mini XL DS

PSU: Shared with Daily - 1200W Corsair HX1200

 

Server

CPU: Ryzen7 1700

Motherboard: MSI X370 SLI Plus

RAM: 8GB Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4

GPU: Nvidia GT 710

HDD: 1X 10TB Seagate ironwolf NAS Drive.  4X 3TB WD Red NAS Drive.

SSD: Adata 128GB

Case: NZXT Source 210 (white)

PSU: EVGA 650 G2 80Plus Gold

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For that board you could go for an

35 minutes ago, LinusTechTipsFanFromDarlo said:

Since you've got a Z370 board you should look at an 8600K if you wanted go for an i5.

Or an 8350k if he doesn't want to spend that much.

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