7740x

[Straz]

Is it completely crazy of me to be considering this? For £220 it seems like a really good deal, also can get a semi decent x299 mobo for £150.

I'm thinking that'll be close in performance to say a 8700k build for £150 less?

Any insights? This is purely for gaming, otherwise I'd be considering Ryzen but the benchmarks have really put me off.

 

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What res are you planning to game at and with what gpu?

 

[Straz]

1080p with a 1070 ti. Looking to hold a solid 300ish fps in Overwatch really, atm it's varying from 220-250. Using a 2700k with a mild OC.

 

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1080p with a 1070 ti. Looking to hold a solid 300ish fps in Overwatch really, atm it's varying from 220-250. Using a 2700k with a mild OC.

What settings? What is render scale set to?

I'm using a 1080ti and 9900k and renderscale being pushed up still drops me down to mid 200s. Leaving everything else on ultra is an easy 300. I do game with settings lower, just pointing out how demanding render scale can be.

 

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Looking into this, i can't pin down exactly what the best cpu for £220 for OW would be, but the game is said to love fast ram and tight timings. This is something that I've seen crop up in several searches related to maintaining a high fps.

This is specific to OW ofcourse.

 

[Straz]

I've been messing around with the settings and am almost certain my CPU is a bottleneck stopping me from reaching higher consistent frames. I actually switched to 75% render scale to see if it boosted the frames but nope, ultra or low the fps stays around the same, I just don't think the 2700k is capable of rendering that amount of frames unfortunately. I don't think any of the Ryzen chips would give me any boost at all to fps, although there would be other benefits especially when it came to upgrading later on. The other route for slightly more money would be 9600k.

 

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I've been messing around with the settings and am almost certain my CPU is a bottleneck stopping me from reaching higher consistent frames. I actually switched to 75% render scale to see if it boosted the frames but nope, ultra or low the fps stays around the same, I just don't think the 2700k is capable of rendering that amount of frames unfortunately. I don't think any of the Ryzen chips would give me any boost at all to fps, although there would be other benefits especially when it came to upgrading later on. The other route for slightly more money would be 9600k.

I don't doubt your cpu is holding you back. The question is whether the 7740x would be a good buy for £220 over the alternatives.

My initial reaction was no, but looking at benches compared to the 7700k i'm not so sure.

Perhaps someone else can chime in.

 

[pandem0nium]

Is it completely crazy of me to be considering this? For £220 it seems like a really good deal, also can get a semi decent x299 mobo for £150.

I'm thinking that'll be close in performance to say a 8700k build for £150 less?

Single core performance will be very similar but the 8700k has 50% more cores and threads for much better multi core performance.

its basically a more power hungry but higher clocking on average 7700K.

The x299 boards are expensive and the 7740X can't make good use of them because of its limited number of PCIe lanes.

 

[8 Pack]

7740x overclock like crazy because of the better power delivery and bigger package x299 offers. All can do around 5.2ghz. With high cache. So if your cpu is definitely holding you back I would rock this cpu..