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Upgrade 5820k for gaming at 1440p and general stuff?

Perfect_Chaos

Perfect_Chaos

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I have 32GB 2800mhz RAM, 980Ti, Gsync 1440p 165hz screen. Would upgrading the CPU benefit much at 1440p? At what point GPU wise will it become a bottleneck when i do upgrade the GPU? I guess that would be the main question.

I only have a 980Ti because i haven't been playing newer games at the moment, so i know a GPU upgrade would give a big boost there.

Worth going Zen 2 or is there no point until a bigger increase in perf comes along?
 
I'm on a 5960X at 4K 1080ti SLI 32gb 3000mhz RAM. I used to have 980ti SLI. I was considering a CPU upgrade and I still am but that's just really for a specific game (Arma 3) which I play a lot and even there I'm almost certainly server sped limited before CPU bound. You really need a decent GPU upgrade if you want more frames as that CPU really is fine unless you're doing esports
and in which case you'd probably already have a faster GPU. Are you overclocked? (I'm at 4.5Ghz). If not then I'd do it if I were you. I'd be tempted to sell the 980ti and get a 2070 super or maybe even a 2080 super. That's the cheapest biggest visible gaming
upgrade you could do. The 2080 Super will give a very noticeable fps improvement at your resolution, far greater than any CPU upgrade.
Just to be clear in GTA 5/Witcher 3 both my GPUs are at 98-100% all the time so GPU limited
at 4K. That pretty much confirms you'll see no improvement in your fps in the vast majority of games.
 
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Yeah that does make me think, i just tried finding some benchmarks and i only managed to find this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xkypSAxMjBY but it's at 1080p and not 1440p. I don't think mine overclocks all that well but 4ghz shouldn't be an issue.

I really don't want to spend money on upgrading everything if there's little need to. Would be nice to find out when the CPU becomes a bottleneck though so i can see how far GPU upgrades would go.
 
id upgrade your gpu if you want the best upgrade. game wise shouldnt be much that troubles your cpu for a while yet. new amd cpus are basically 8700 - 8700k single core. basically your cpu overclocked to 4.8 would be the same as any of the line up in games. some do overclock high i have one that will do 4.7ghz but most do upto 4.2-4.4. if i were upgrading to the new platform id be going at least 8 core as the 3600 is just a side grade.
 
CPU should still be fine unless you want the max FPS. I'm a little less fussy and usually limit games to 75 fps in which case my upgrade from 980 Ti to 1080 Ti has been a great choice throughout the recent price increases.

I wouldn't worry too much a bout a large CPU overclock as the majority of your gains will come from a GPU upgrade. I've simply selected the first OC step in the BIOS which resulted in 4 GHz @ 1.198V and just left it at that.
 
I don't need maximum use out of the refresh rate for gaming tbh, happy as long as it's at least 60 but 90-100 or thereabouts is where i want it ideally, if the CPU isn't going to hold that back then I'm good with keeping it for now.

Are there any recent ish benchmarks around showing game performance with this CPU compared to a few others?
 
You'll be getting 90+fps (certainly fps within gsync range if you really push settings) with a 5820k at around 4.5ghz (you didn't mention if you were ocing it) and a 2070super at 1440p :)
 
your cpu is more than fine. its just really if the gpus can give you what you want. its going to be a expensive jump from what you have to anything noticable tbh.
 
I've got pretty much the same rig. But a titan X and 5960x

It runs game at 1440p ok but my next upgrade will be a GPU 100% the CPU will be fine for a good while yet I think
 
I'm running my 5820k at 4.2...and it's really hard to justify an upgrade, as much as I'd like a 3900X! I upgraded my 970 to a 2070 a few weeks ago, and on my 60hz 2560x1600 monitor, it's plenty powerful enough.
 
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Your computer is still pretty powerful op, stick with it a while longer.
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Thing is it gets in a difficult position, what point should i change a lot of my stuff? Next year? Intel will still be on 14nm, then a year later we probably get DDR5.

Next CPU is a tough one, but i already have a 2070 Super on order for now.
 
Perfect_Chaos said:
difficult position, what point should i change a lot of my stuff?
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That's a "how long is a piece of string" question.
You could upgrade anytime (finances depending) if you really wanted to...or upgrade when you think the performance isn't as great as you'd like it to...or when your current computer is actually ancient
 
I'm ditching my 5820k as a newer CPU may not make a massive difference to max FPS at 3440x1440 but looks to improve minimum FPS quite significantly. I also do some Photo editing and larger imports take a while so using that as an excuse.

Will keep my GTX1080 and have some decent RAM so just changing mobo and RAM.
 
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