5820K - Should I upgrade?

[Bugses]

I mainly use my PC for gaming and mostly FPS games, so high and consistent FPS means a lot to me. Would I benefit from upgrading my CPU to something newer? It's overclocked to 4,4 GHz.

 

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

Type	Item	Price
CPU	Intel - Core i7-5820K 3.3 GHz 6-Core Processor	$428.00 @ SuperBiiz
CPU Cooler	Noctua - NH-D15 82.5 CFM CPU Cooler	$84.43 @ Newegg Business
Motherboard	Asus - ROG STRIX X99 GAMING ATX LGA2011-3 Motherboard	$282.84 @ Newegg
Memory	Kingston - HyperX Fury 16 GB (2 x 8 GB) DDR4-2400 Memory	$144.99 @ Amazon
Storage	Samsung - 860 Evo 500 GB 2.5" Solid State Drive	$69.99 @ Newegg Business
Video Card	Gainward - GeForce GTX 1070 8 GB Video Card
Case	Fractal Design - Define R5 (Black) ATX Mid Tower Case
Power Supply	EVGA - SuperNOVA G2 650 W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply	$65.98 @ Newegg
Operating System	Microsoft - Windows 10 Pro OEM 64-bit	$124.79 @ OutletPC
Monitor	Asus - PG279Q ROG Swift 27.0" 2560x1440 165 Hz Monitor	$649.00 @ Amazon
	Prices include shipping, taxes, rebates, and discounts
	Total (before mail-in rebates)	$1860.02
	Mail-in rebates	-$10.00
	Total	$1850.02
	Generated by PCPartPicker 2018-11-24 16:45 EST-0500

 

[3 Lions]

If you are happy with your current system then I see little reason for you to upgrade yet. 

[Bugses]

1 minute ago, LinusTechTipsFanFromDarlo said:

If you are happy with your current system then I see little reason for you to upgrade yet. 

It's hard to say really. I mostly play PUBG at the moment, but that game is so poorly coded, that I can't really trust the FPS I'm getting there. I tried a little BFV, and my computer seemed to struggle there a bit, so that's what made me think about upgrading.

[XR6]

10 minutes ago, Bugses said:

It's hard to say really. I mostly play PUBG at the moment, but that game is so poorly coded, that I can't really trust the FPS I'm getting there. I tried a little BFV, and my computer seemed to struggle there a bit, so that's what made me think about upgrading.

If it does not do what you want it to do then I would upgrade.

The problem is the game. The games you tried are either quite CPU intensive (BFV) or poorly coded (PUBG)

[orbitalbuzzsaw]

14 minutes ago, Bugses said:

It's hard to say really. I mostly play PUBG at the moment, but that game is so poorly coded, that I can't really trust the FPS I'm getting there. I tried a little BFV, and my computer seemed to struggle there a bit, so that's what made me think about upgrading.

If you were to upgrade I would upgrade to a 1080 Ti instead. An 8700K or similar wouldn't be that much of a performance upgrade.

[Coachdude]

I'd just stick with what you have for now. The i7 5820K is still a really good 6 core 12 threaded processor, and should handle any triple A game you throw at it really. If you wanted to upgrade something, I'd update the video card instead, as I think you'd benefit much more from that than you would a platform upgrade. If you really did want to upgrade your platform though, I would wait until the Ryzen 3000 series processors released, and see how they perform. And possibly wait on Intel's next release. It really isn't worth the platform cost of changing motherboards etc. for the minimal upgrade in performance you'd see in most circumstances currently. 

[DogKnight]

With 6 cores at 4.4ghz, I don't think you'll see a huge change in performance. That processor still does run very well. 

However if you plan on only playing specific games that would benefit from an upgrade, its worth considering. 

Check for some comparison videos. There are some that are comparing multiple 6 core systems from different gens (5820k, Ryzen 2600, 9600k?). Should give you an indication of how the processor performs against current gens. 

[Bugses]

Thanks for all of your suggestions :)

[Kalm_Traveler]

with that monitor, I would look first at a new graphics card... the 1070 is a champ, but by no means a beast when it comes to driving a 2560 x 1440 165hz screen. 

 

I have a 5820k in my old old rig and it seemed to be a good match with a single 1080 Ti. 

Current rig is using two Titan Xp's  to drive a 3440 x 1440 100hz screen and pretty much nothing I play will stay at/above 100 fps even with this (with all graphics settings maxxed out of course). GPU utilization on both cards generally is around 95% so that just says to me that driving more pixels really does become more of a graphics card game.

[bomerr]

No, get a 1080 Ti and another 16GB of Ram to run in the full quad channel. 

 

A 8700k/9700k OC'd is about 30% faster than 5820k OC'd. But at 1440p, with a 1080 TI, most games will only see a 6% decrease, on avg, from the 5820k.