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CPU for gaming and streaming

Aa83

Aa83

Aa83

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My nephew's having some issues with his PC at the moment, and is thinking about a CPU upgrade. He mainly uses the PC for gaming (CS:GO, WoW, other steam games) at 1080p, and as well gaming he also streams via Twitch every now and then, and when he does stream he wants to ensure his FPS in fast paced games like Counterstrike stay high. With his current rig, he's complaining that he's getting an FPS dip while streaming.

He's currently running an i5 2500 (the non-K variant) with 8Gb of RAM and what I presume is a standard 1155 motherboard, with a Sapphire Nitro 390 he picked up in the Black Friday deals and an Eizo Foris FS2434.

My question is does anyone think he'll benefit from an i7? I'm fairly confident just with gaming in mind that an overclocked Skylake i3 or i5 will do him, but I'm not a streamer myself and as such don't know if the hyper-threading or extra two physical cores he'd get with a 6700K or a 5820K would actually benefit him in any way, other than lightening his wallet significantly (my usual advice is go i5 and save money for a more powerful GPU).
 
Thanks for the reply, I'll ask there as well. I'm not sure what software he uses to stream.
 
Aa83 said:
My nephew's having some issues with his PC at the moment, and is thinking about a CPU upgrade. He mainly uses the PC for gaming (CS:GO, WoW, other steam games) at 1080p, and as well gaming he also streams via Twitch every now and then, and when he does stream he wants to ensure his FPS in fast paced games like Counterstrike stay high. With his current rig, he's complaining that he's getting an FPS dip while streaming.

He's currently running an i5 2500 (the non-K variant) with 8Gb of RAM and what I presume is a standard 1155 motherboard, with a Sapphire Nitro 390 he picked up in the Black Friday deals and an Eizo Foris FS2434.

My question is does anyone think he'll benefit from an i7? I'm fairly confident just with gaming in mind that an overclocked Skylake i3 or i5 will do him, but I'm not a streamer myself and as such don't know if the hyper-threading or extra two physical cores he'd get with a 6700K or a 5820K would actually benefit him in any way, other than lightening his wallet significantly (my usual advice is go i5 and save money for a more powerful GPU).
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I think yes, he will see a benefit in this instant. Would also help to have SSD in there as well.
 
Ah I forgot to mention, he's running WIndows 10 and his games from a 480Gb SSD, so that should be covered already. Thanks for recommending the i7.
 
It's only streaming that will be the other multitasking exercise, the rest is what I would consider GPU-bound gaming (he's not into large scale RTS or anything that would tax multiple cores a CPU on its own).
 
Set it so that he's encoding with VCE on the AMD GPU, or Quicksync on the CPU IGP if he can do it. That way none of the encoding is actually done on the CPU.
 
Forget getting a new i7.

Put a used 3770k in there or even 2600k/2700k
 
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Thanks, that what I would usually advise, but I think he's fed up with the lack of features on his current motherboard. Plus have you seen the prices of used 3770Ks? They seem to be around £200 on a certain auction site, and decent used Z77 boards aren't much cheaper than a new Skylake or Haswell board.
 
Hm, yeah. I have been looking at MM prices...

Probably just worth getting a new setup if he's fed up with the board. What does he particularly dislike about the board?
 
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