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At what point do i look into upgrading CPU

Only thing i find at the moment is, if i click on ctrl alt del and do some stuff while games on in back ground its a bit slow to responded. also if i change to a 1080ti/ or may even go sli. Will i still handle the gpu or will it start to not like it.
 
Reason am asking is i want to incorporate my CPU into the custom loop ive just done for the GPU. But i dont really dont wont to do all the hard work then a few months down the line have to take it all apart to swap the cpu. Might as well upgrade if it's needed now then do the add on at a later date.


Would it be just a straight swap for my 6600 on my mobo. its got the latest bios installed
 
Darkwolf441 said:
Reason am asking is i want to incorporate my CPU into the custom loop ive just done for the GPU. But i dont really dont wont to do all the hard work then a few months down the line have to take it all apart to swap the cpu. Might as well upgrade if it's needed now then do the add on at a later date.


Would it be just a straight swap for my 6600 on my mobo. its got the latest bios installed
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Should be if the board supports the 7700K. Though the 7700 might not solve the tab out problem. If you need to do it a lot maybe get a second small screen.
 
Darkwolf441 said:
Reason am asking is i want to incorporate my CPU into the custom loop ive just done for the GPU. But i dont really dont wont to do all the hard work then a few months down the line have to take it all apart to swap the cpu. Might as well upgrade if it's needed now then do the add on at a later date.


Would it be just a straight swap for my 6600 on my mobo. its got the latest bios installed
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Depends regarding the upgrade path. 8700K comes out in 3 weeks time and the 7700K price will crash since it is going to be almost equivalent to the new i3s.
So you either buy used, delid, and use the 5Ghz OC Profile in your BIOS (you can crank it up also to 5.1), waiting until next year IceLake CPUs (8c/16t) and Z390 or Zen 2, or buy a 8700K & Z37 now.


Also if you watercool, get the EK monoblock for the Maximum IX Hero. I will cool down the VRMs also and look better :)
 
Zero need to water cool the VRMs. Even with a massive overclock all you need is a fan blowing over them and even then that's questionable.
 
+1 on just wait a few weeks and get a 7700k on Clearance, I don't know if it will be exactly i3 level - especially under water, It will definitely give you heaps more life from your system though.
 
Intel chips have never price crashed have they because of the whole board change per chip there isn't a mad rush to buy the next one so prices remain solid, might loose what £20.

And as I discovered when I had my z77 they are end of lifed quite quickly and you miss out on the one you want unless you by second hand or buy over inflated priced ones that remain.
 
Whenever you can afford to upgrade and want to scratch the itch, for me that's been 1 year, 2 year, than 4 years before my upgrade last month.
 
I am in the same boat and i loot at it like this : What res do you game at ? most people game at 1080p or 1440p ( 2K ) Do you like to run your games at ultra ? I currently have i5 2500 clocked at 4.5 ghz and to be totally honest with my msi 1080 ti it runs every game at well over 60 FPS on the max ultra settings so i don't see any need to spend £600 to upgrade just yet because that is the cost involved for a new CPU and motherboard and memory.

All comes down to what you need and use it for.........
 
When you realise you do need then probably it's time I upgrade too :D my i5 750 is pretty darn elderly but at 4GHz it runs what I want it to run so I haven't bothered upgrading yet. For the last 4 years or so I've thought "This year it'll be time" but it's really hard to justify each time. Getting easier though, with Ryzen moving the dial quite a lot and Intel looking like responding with the next gen, might finally be interesting enough to make me do.
 
I have the i5 6600K in my HTPC computer, its a great CPU, you should not bother replacing it unless you are maxing it out regularly which you wont doing day to day gaming/work. If you have money to burn then sure replace it, but unless you are doing really CPU intensive work then you wont see much benefit/gain I think.
 
A 6600k at 4.7ghz is a fast gaming CPU.

Ok, so there are games that will make use of extra threads and perform better on an i7 or Ryzen.

The 6600k will still perform admirably in these games though.

Going forward, more and more games will take advantage of extra cores and threads.

But for now, you'd be better off saving your money for your next GPU upgrade.

To be honest, my old 2500k was still fast enough as a gaming CPU, I just had some spare cash and wanted some new kit to play with :)
 
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When you are no longer happy with the peformance. It's not like a timer is ticking down.
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This..

I upgraded mine last year for very little return.. @4.7GHz, i doubt this would cause any bottlenecks elsewhere on the system. Not when you think that asynchronous memory runs into MHz into comparisons.
 
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