I 7 8700k to 9700k stop gab worth it?

[shankly1985]

I waiting to upgrade to zen 4 but I am now thinking about waiting until amd offer 3D cache version of the chip.
In the meantime I completely forgot that my motherboard supports other coffee lake CPUs including the 8 core 9700k.

Do you think it's a worthwhile upgrade over the 8700k with all 6 cores running at 4.7ghz?

Some games I have noticed putting a lot of pressure on my now dating 6 cores. Spiderman forget at 4k uses 90% of my CPu making me CPu bottleneck another title is hunt showdown that also suffers performance drops that a friend of mine doesn't experience on ryzen with a weaker GPU.

 

[shankly1985]

If you're only using 90% CPU I'm not sure that you're actually bottlenecked by your CPU in Spiderman. That would be the case if you were using 100% CPU.

As for waiting for the 3D cache versions of the Ryzen CPUs, I'm with you all the way.

GPU clocks and usage drops when the CPu is under stress. It's not all the time mind you. But in some areas the performance drops below 60fps.

 

[shankly1985]

Can you not get the 8700k to 4.9 or 5 GHz?

I could try but would it really make that much of a difference? I just settled at 4.7 slightly adjust clocks at 1.2v

 

[shankly1985]

@MartinPrince

My Ram speed is at its XMP level 32000mhz 32Gb DDR 4

 

[shankly1985]

What are the timings?

Let me double check later model is corsair dominator and I am sure it's CL16 but I can not remember what the rest is.

 

[shankly1985]

Thanks all for the input. It seems the best option right now is to hang on and mess with hardware.

 

[shankly1985]

What are the timings?

Hello
My timings are 16,18,18,36, 560 clocks 2T
This is the default XMP profile for this RAM at 3200mhz