Upgrading from a 6500?

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My friend had a spare MSI Z170A PC MATE that I could get for £60 and I was wondering if it was worth upgrading from my i5 6500 and pretty bad motherboard to a 6600k. I would have to get a new psu and cpu cooler (probably just a hyper 212) as well as my current one would not be good enough to OC it. I was recently playing the battlefield V beta and was getting low fps which i think is primarily down to my cpu as the minimum required is a 6600k. I mainly play games that are very CPU dependant like csgo and TF2.

 

Current specs: https://uk.pcpartpicker.com/list/zrBWmq (couldnt find the PSU but its 430W)

[Fasauceome]

I don't think you'd notice a difference. The i7 6700k will have more of a clock speed increase, and you'll probably see more value in it. Don't forget about a decent cpu cooler

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14 minutes ago, fasauceome said:

I don't think you'd notice a difference. The i7 6700k will have more of a clock speed increase, and you'll probably see more value in it. Don't forget about a decent cpu cooler

Would you recommend getting that over a more recent cpu +motherboard combination?

[Fasauceome]

21 minutes ago, [blank] said:

Would you recommend getting that over a more recent cpu +motherboard combination?

a core i7 7700k would be similar in performance to a core i5 8600k. The new generations are better, but not so much to warrant a platform upgrade.

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20 minutes ago, fasauceome said:

a core i7 7700k would be similar in performance to a core i5 8600k. The new generations are better, but not so much to warrant a platform upgrade.

Oh I wasn't aware that I could use 7000 series CPU. Is there enough of a difference between the 7700K and 7600K to warrant the £100 price gap? Also what psu would you recommend?

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2 minutes ago, [blank] said:

Oh I wasn't aware that I could use 7000 series CPU. Is there enough of a difference between the 7700K and 7600K to warrant the £100 price gap? Also what psu would you recommend?

The core i5 has 4 cores and 4 threads.

The core i7 has 4 cores and 8 threads, which basically means it allows the CPU to act like it has 8 cores (to an extent). This allows for more effective multitasking, and i7 processors generally have higher frequencies to go along with them.

All motherboards that can accommodate 6th and 7th gen Intel CPUs are intercompatible, all you should have to do is update your BIOS, which is quite easy to do, with loads of tutorials online.

 

I recommend an EVGA G2 power supply, somewhere in the neighborhood of 500W.