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Figuring out what to upgrade to for best performance

teelur
By teelur
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Hi, I'm trying to figure out what to upgrade my CPU to now that I've upgraded from a EVGA GTX 970 SC ACX 2.0 to an EVGA GTX 1080 SC ACX 3.0. My desktop is 4 years old and is currently running:

 

2x 4gb Corsair Vengeance DDR3 at 2400mhz

2x 8gb Corsair Vengeance DDR3 at 2400mhz

Intel i5-4690k @ 4.10ghz

Corsair H60

ASUS Z97-E Motherboard

Samsung 970 EVO M.2 NVME 500gb Drive

Kingston HyperX 250gb SSD

2 other 1tb hard drives

 

I mainly play a lot of Rainbow Six Siege, and the game has a tendency to always have 100% usage on all 4 of my i5-4690k's cores, despite me performing all of the possible fixes that I've researched. 

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I would most likely upgrade your cpu (and mobo)

PC: CPU: i5-9600k - CPU Cooler: be quiet! Dark Rock Pro 4 - GPU: Sapphire Radeon RX 5700 XT 8GB GDDR6 - Motherboard: ASRock - Z370 Extreme4 - RAM: Team - T-Force Delta RGB 16 GB DDR4-3000 - PSU: Corsair - TXM Gold 550 W 80+ Gold Certified Semi-Modular ATX Power Supply - Case: Thermaltake - Core G21 TG

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Depends on your budget

 

meanwhile, try overclock more.

CPU: i7-2600K 4751MHz 1.44V (software) --> 1.47V at the back of the socket Motherboard: Asrock Z77 Extreme4 (BCLK: 103.3MHz) CPU Cooler: Noctua NH-D15 RAM: Adata XPG 2x8GB DDR3 (XMP: 2133MHz 10-11-11-30 CR2, custom: 2203MHz 10-11-10-26 CR1 tRFC:230 tREFI:14000) GPU: Asus GTX 1070 Dual (Super Jetstream vbios, +70(2025-2088MHz)/+400(8.8Gbps)) SSD: Samsung 840 Pro 256GB (main boot drive), Transcend SSD370 128GB PSU: Seasonic X-660 80+ Gold Case: Antec P110 Silent, 5 intakes 1 exhaust Monitor: AOC G2460PF 1080p 144Hz (150Hz max w/ DP, 121Hz max w/ HDMI) TN panel Keyboard: Logitech G610 Orion (Cherry MX Blue) with SteelSeries Apex M260 keycaps Mouse: BenQ Zowie FK1

 

Model: HP Omen 17 17-an110ca CPU: i7-8750H (0.125V core & cache, 50mV SA undervolt) GPU: GTX 1060 6GB Mobile (+80/+450, 1650MHz~1750MHz 0.78V~0.85V) RAM: 8+8GB DDR4-2400 18-17-17-39 2T Storage: HP EX920 1TB PCIe x4 M.2 SSD + Crucial MX500 1TB 2.5" SATA SSD, 128GB Toshiba PCIe x2 M.2 SSD (KBG30ZMV128G) gone cooking externally, 1TB Seagate 7200RPM 2.5" HDD (ST1000LM049-2GH172) left outside Monitor: 1080p 126Hz IPS G-sync

 

Desktop benching:

Cinebench R15 Single thread:168 Multi-thread: 833 

SuperPi (v1.5 from Techpowerup, PI value output) 16K: 0.100s 1M: 8.255s 32M: 7m 45.93s

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19 minutes ago, lmeneses said:

I would most likely upgrade your cpu (and mobo)

Was trying to figure out what specifically to upgrade towards, like what CPU would handle my 1080 most efficiently and be the most bang for my buck.

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5 minutes ago, teelur said:

Was trying to figure out what specifically to upgrade towards, like what CPU would handle my 1080 most efficiently and be the most bang for my buck.

well, depending on your budget, a 2600 (oced) or a i5 8400 are probably the most bang for the buck cpus to handle a 1080. However, if your budget permits, an i5 8600k would be the best option 

PC: CPU: i5-9600k - CPU Cooler: be quiet! Dark Rock Pro 4 - GPU: Sapphire Radeon RX 5700 XT 8GB GDDR6 - Motherboard: ASRock - Z370 Extreme4 - RAM: Team - T-Force Delta RGB 16 GB DDR4-3000 - PSU: Corsair - TXM Gold 550 W 80+ Gold Certified Semi-Modular ATX Power Supply - Case: Thermaltake - Core G21 TG

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