Upgrading CPU and RAM

[Wiechu]

Hi!

i am currently rocking i5 6600k with 16 GB 2400 MHz RAM and GTX 1080. I feel liKe I am not getting 100% from my GPU. When I play Forza or Battlefield my GPU usage stays at around 50-70% and CPU always at 100%. Because of that my frame rate is not really great (50-60 FPS in BFV, 70 FPS in Forza Horizon 4). I am planing to upgrade to i7 6700k and 16 GB 3000 MHz RAM. Is it worth to upgrade? Some people say that i5 is good for gaming but I don’t feel like 4 cores and 4 threads is enough for my GPU and I can get much more performance from i7.

[H4X3R]

No need for an upgrade. Try updating your drivers and disabling any power savings mode in control panel and nvidia control panel.

There will be a slight fps gain in newer games with an i7 but it's not worth the extra money and hassle.

[voiha]

I am with i7 7700 and GTX 1080, and In some games I have the CPU bottleneck, mostly because I game on 1080p screen. If you want to push your card equally with your GPU at this resolution you should most likely go for i5 8600/i7 8700, as the additional higher clocks and 2 cores help !

Not in every game I have the issues tho

[Wiechu]

2 minutes ago, H4X3R said:

No need for an upgrade. Try updating your drivers and disabling any power savings mode in control panle and nvidia control panel.

I don’t have any power saving modes enabled, I have checked everything. I just feel like my CPU is not good enough, because while it is working 100% GPU is barely stressing. In Shadow of the Tomb Raider I get around 70 FPS with drops to 40 on 1080p max settings. Shouldn’t I get more frames from GTX 1080?

[H4X3R]

2 minutes ago, Wiechu said:

I don’t have any power saving modes enabled, I have checked everything. I just feel like my CPU is not good enough, because while it is working 100% GPU is barely stressing. In Shadow of the Tomb Raider I get around 70 FPS with drops to 40 on 1080p max settings. Shouldn’t I get more frames from GTX 1080?

That FPS is normal. With an i7 6700k you can expect a bump of 10 fps. Up to you if you want to spend the money, take off your cooler, replace the CPU, put on thermal paste, put the cooler back on and finally clean off the i5 and sell it.

[Dedayog]

9 minutes ago, Wiechu said:

I don’t have any power saving modes enabled, I have checked everything. I just feel like my CPU is not good enough, because while it is working 100% GPU is barely stressing. In Shadow of the Tomb Raider I get around 70 FPS with drops to 40 on 1080p max settings. Shouldn’t I get more frames from GTX 1080?

Game at 1440p or even UW.

 

Honestly, you bought a GTX1080 for 1080p gaming without understanding how resolution is affected by the CPU and GPU.  I'd step up to utilizing your GPU with a higher resolution rather than bolstering your CPU and staying at 1080p.

 

No, don't upgrade the 6600K, upgrade your monitor.

[Wiechu]

1 minute ago, jstudrawa said:

Game at 1440p or even UW.

 

Honestly, you bought a GTX1080 for 1080 gaming without understanding how resolution is affected by the CPU and GPU.  I'd step up to utilizing your GPU with a higher resolution rather than bolstering your CPU and staying at 1080p.

 

No, don't upgrade the 6600K, upgrade your monitor.

That’s a good idea. The worst thing is that I am using 2 screens and if I want to get new monitor I have to upgrade 2 at the time. Helpfully when I have bought my monitors a year ago shop accidentally sent me promo codes 2 times so I pretty much got my monitors for free. Are there any good 4k monitors for 350$? I could go for 144hz, but I feel like higher resolution is better for work.

[Dedayog]

1 minute ago, Wiechu said:

That’s a good idea. The worst thing is that I am using 2 screens and if I want to get new monitor I have to upgrade 2 at the time. Helpfully when I have bought my monitors a year ago shop accidentally sent me promo codes 2 times so I pretty much got my monitors for free. Are there any good 4k monitors for 350$? I could go for 144hz, but I feel like higher resolution is better for work.

I'd get a good 1440p monitor and use your 2 current ones for each side, the GTX1080 can power all 3 just fine.

 

Or sell them and replace with an Ultrawide instead of 2 new ones.  You have options.

 

 

[Zando_]

Have you OCed the i5 at all? If it's anything like the 8600K vs 8700K, it should be about the same in games, and an OC should give you a nice fps boost at no cost other than time and maybe a better cooler. 

[Wiechu]

43 minutes ago, Zando Bob said:

Have you OCed the i5 at all? If it's anything like the 8600K vs 8700K, it should be about the same in games, and an OC should give you a nice fps boost at no cost other than time and maybe a better cooler. 

I have OC to 4.5 GHz in fixed mode. 

[Telefonkarte]

Hey... I just wanna say that I run Battlefield V at something around 60-120 fps. On average something around 70-80. 

I have a E3 1230 v3 (stock) which should be worse than your CPU.

So something doesn't add up here. Maybe the overclocking doesn't go as planned. Idk, but it's strange.

[Wiechu]

What about multitasking like playing games, heaving Chrome opened with multiple tabs nad bunch of programu running on The backgroud? Is i5 going to perform the same way as i7 in that situation? I like playing games ant watching YT/Netflix at the same time and PC likes to stop playing video because game is currently running. 

[asand1]

4 threads vs 8 threads? The i5 will suffer where the i7 will run better multitasking.

[Wiechu]

7 hours ago, asand1 said:

4 threads vs 8 threads? The i5 will suffer where the i7 will run better multitasking.

So on that case i7 is better for me? I have 2 monitors so using few programs at the time is a normal thing for me.

[asand1]

Yes, more multitasking while gaming the i7 will be better.