Upgrade Question

[adtuck]

Hi everyone,

 

I have a quick question regarding an update that I want to make.

 

I am currently sporting an MSI GTX 970 and an i5 6600K.

 

I am thinking about making the upgrade to an RTX 2070 when they come out. I understand that the 6600K will probably limit my performance so I am thinking I will update my CPU as well.

 

Which CPU do you think I should go with? I was thinking of upgrading to an i7 8700K. However, that will mean I also will need to upgrade my motherboard to have the new LGA1151 (300 series) socket as my older LGA1151 socket will be incompatible. Is it worthwhile to look into an i7 7700K so that I don't need to upgrade motherboard?

 

Thanks everyone

[IdiotPenguin]

I think your CPU should be fine for the next couple years  although getting a new CPU would probably Boost performance but is the price really worth it?

[Jurrunio]

6600k to 7700k wont be that big of a difference. I'd say 8600k (8700k's price is too high for the performance advantage on top of the 8600k)

[Origami Cactus]

i5 6600k and i7 7700k are pretty much the same thing, only that the i5 has hyperthreading disabled.

So i wouldnt consider that as an worthwhile upgrade.

[davrosG5]

I'd be surprised if the CPU was a bottleneck tbh.

What sort of games and at what resolution were you planning on playing with a 2070?

Given we don't actually have performance numbers for the 2070 yet it'd be worth waiting to see how it stacks up against the Pascal cards - by the time it's out you may be able to pick up a 1080 or even a 1080Ti (wild optimism ) for same sort of price so unless you're going in hard on stuff that takes advantage of the Raytracing it may not be much of a step up over the Pascal cards.

 

It was conspicuous that nVidia weren't really making much of a thing about performance deltas where raytracing wasn't a factor.