Change FX8350 Black Edition to i7-6700K 4.0GHz?

Marleyman

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I currently have:

ASRock 990FX Extreme4 Motherboard

AMD FX8350 Black Edition 8 Core Processor 4.0/4.2GHz Retail

Corsair CMY16GX3M2A1600C9B Vengeance Pro Series 16GB (2x8GB) DDR3 1600Mhz

EVGA GeForce GTX 780 Classified w/ EVGA ACX Cooler 3GB GDDR5 384-bit

Samsung 850 EVO 500 GB 2.5-Inch SSD
OS Windows 7 x64
Screen ASUS VG278HG 1920*1080

I do not overclock.

In the new year I plan to switch over to Windows 10 and thought I would upgrade to 32GB RAM to help with my Photoshop and Adobe Lightroom projects.

Then I got to thinking about using DDR4 and looked for an AMD Socket board with DDR4 support, to no avail, so I started to look at a full rebuild as I could find no reasonable response to when AMD will produce a CPU that supports DDR4. I built the current core of my system in July 2013.

I came up with this plan instead:

Asus Maximus VIII Ranger Intel Z170 (Socket 1151) DDR4 ATX Motherboard
OR
Asus Z170 Pro Gaming Intel Z170 (Socket 1151) DDR4 ATX Motherboard

Intel Core i7-6700K 4.0GHz (Skylake) Socket LGA1151 Processor

Corsair Dominator Platinum 32GB (4x8GB) DDR4 PC4-24000C15 3000MHz Dual Channel Kit

My Question is will I be better off overall with the new setup?

I do Play games, Fallout 4 and Witcher 3 at the moment, should I expect a boost in gaming as well as image processing from the new components and would those parts be a reasonable upgrade with a budget of £600.00?
 
I was just floating in the same boat, I decided to go for the 5820k and Gigabyte X99-SLI bundle for £430, which is cheaper than the 6700k and you are getting more long term performance due to the extra 2 cores and 2 threads.
Especially as you do photoshop and lightroom, you could defiantly benefit from the extra cores.
While I agree the Dominator Platinum looks awesome, is it really the best for the money? Questionable...
 
theaterix said:
, I decided to go for the 5820k and Gigabyte X99-SLI bundle for £430, which is cheaper than the 6700k and you are getting more long term performance due to the extra 2 cores and 2 threads.
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I was thinking about games like Diablo 3 or Starcraft that I think are single core games (and any other applications/games that are stuck in single core use) having the boost from 3.3Ghz to 4Ghz would be required. Not a deal breaker just another thought I had in my head when looking at specs.
 
Dominator also restricts you in the cooling department. You basically have to go AIO / water. Memory is no big deal really. There are plenty to choose from, and AFAIK there isn't a particular manufacturer that should be avoided or recommended.

I have the pro gaming mobo. It's a good motherboard, but has limited number of SATA ports, the front USB3 connector is oddly placed, probably because of all the extra ROG ports at the bottom. I should have gone with the Ranger, in retrospect.

as for choosing between X99 vs Z170, for gaming and general purpose, meh. For produtivity and work, extra cores (albeit slower), and potential for faster 'X' processors would be a bonus. A 6700K will be plenty fast anyway, depends on how reliant you are on your CPU performance. The price isn't favorable though.

BTW, I'm still hitting occasional frame rate issues in FO4 with a 6700K. There's so much a CPU can do, when the software is not optimised properly.
 
olivier renault said:
as for choosing between X99 vs Z170, for gaming and general purpose, meh. For produtivity and work, extra cores (albeit slower), and potential for faster 'X' processors would be a bonus. A 6700K will be plenty fast anyway, depends on how reliant you are on your CPU performance. The price isn't favorable though.
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When it comes to games I am happy right now how Fallout 4 performs. No idea what the framerate is I never have a counter on to check. I just know it feels smooth and playable on 'ultra' right now. Load times are ok too at about 15 seconds I believe.

As for actual reliance on the CPU for Photoshop stuff, I think I need the memory and the SSD more, for example, reskinning for Train Sim, I can have up to 50 layers open for a single reskin project .

With lightroom, I can frequently import 150 NEF images and they are 16mb to 25mb each. So again Memory and SSD are the key but the CPU still has a good share to carry. I wonder what Lightroom 5 uses 'core wise'. I never checked before.
 
Marleyman said:
I currently have:

ASRock 990FX Extreme4 Motherboard

AMD FX8350 Black Edition 8 Core Processor 4.0/4.2GHz Retail

Corsair CMY16GX3M2A1600C9B Vengeance Pro Series 16GB (2x8GB) DDR3 1600Mhz

EVGA GeForce GTX 780 Classified w/ EVGA ACX Cooler 3GB GDDR5 384-bit

Samsung 850 EVO 500 GB 2.5-Inch SSD
OS Windows 7 x64
Screen ASUS VG278HG 1920*1080

I do not overclock. :eek:
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Surely your first thing to try is to overclock, hopefully you can get yourself a decent AIO cooler that would fit the new sockets also and then have a go...if it's not up to scratch then swap out the rest.
 
panyan said:
Additionally, if you dont overclock, why are you going for a 'K' cpu?
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I tend not to overclock because I have no idea what I am doing in the first place and also because I am retired so money to replace any fried boards or chips would be an issue. As for 'why are you going for a 'K' cpu?' my ignorance of the question is clearly evident in the first part of my answer as I do not know what you mean. I suspect you mean the K Class is great for OC but I am just guessing there.

I was looking at the i7-6700K 4.0GHz because it is 4Ghz with 4 cores and I think it would surpass my current FX8350 8 Core Processor @4.0Ghz despite the fact that it has 8 cores. I am of course seeking advice on that too.

I don't want to lose game performance just for Application performance, I want an overall improvement across both uses if that can be achieved and I would still prefer not to overclock.

Thanks.
 
Don't think of it as overclocking, think of it as fiddling....everyone loves fiddling.
There a re some great overclocking guides on YT and probably some on here also.
 
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