I'm looking for a bump in performance all around, but mostly for Battlefield V. I'm watching this video here and going from 8600k to 8700k seems huge in this game, so I imagine a 9700k would be even higher? I can sell my 8600k for about £220, so it would only cost me around £180 to upgrade which I'm OK with if I'm getting around 15fps extra which I would do, if this video is accurate: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8UWFqVTE_rA. I notice it just seems much more stable too, like when buildings explode there's not that sharp drop in frame rate.
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Best upgrade for an 8600k @ 4.8GHz for 144Hz
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At ultra settings you would be testing the GPU and not the CPU i would imagine.
The performance of 8700K and 9700K are pretty much on par, GamersNexus did a video on it as part of their 9700K review recently so suggest you check it out. You can eke out even more performance out of an 8700K is it is delidded and liquid metal applied, of course the silicon lottery applies but for those with deep pockets OcUK will do the binning and delid the CPU for you. It is NOT recommended to delid 9th Gen Intel CPU’s though possible.
One thing that GamersNexus did note with the 9700K was some frame time issues with the 9700K, i.e. occasional stuttering where frame time performance dropped more than would normally be expected. Personally I would either go with a 8700K or a 9900K since the 9700K is a strange beast given it’s lack of hyper threading (8 cores & 8 threads).
To the OP, I would wait about 10 days or so to see what is announced at CES 2019 as more information on Zen 2 (Ryzen 3XXX) is expected, if the expected IPC gains of around 10% and bump in clock speeds of up to 500MHz materialise, you could be left with buyers remorse.
just wait see whats on offer. at moment in if not all games you want the best amount of cores with the highest ghz. you on a i5 so a high end i9 realistically isnt worth what you would gain. also res makes a huge difference. what most bf players do who want high fps hz. will do 1080 and high hz and low settings all around. to keep a stable high fps. you also have to factor in is the game worth so much ? bf5 has been pretty much a flop cant see it being busy in 6 months.
That's my point, he tested at low setting to put strain on the cpu. But unless your going to game at low setting it's pointless, when you go ultra and bring the gpu into it I would think fps to be the same