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I5-4670k is it worth upgrading for 1440p

@P4Clock - I mentioned this in my earlier posts. Unfortunately only 8gb of ram running at 1600mhz both in slots A, for some reason the board refused to boot one day when one was in A and one was in B so in dual channel mode even though it had been working fine for years. It's now really only running as single channel I guess. They were a kit so a matched pair.
 
Well I think we found your problem.
Many games demand more then 8gb now days when you step up to 1440 the need for good fast ram is even more so.
I would think you need 16gb of ram

That said an i7 would also be good.
 
You have 4 dim slots have you tried in the alternate A B channels, should still be dual channel, obviously still only have 8GB, I'm sure you probably tried that.

But yeah, you have slow ram, not enough and in single channel, not the best recipe.

You can try killing all processes the are extraneous and see if you get some frames back.
 
Supa Koopa said:
Thanks everyone, answers in order;

I've just run the benchmark in The Division at 1440p, ultra setting with v-sync set to off. Avg FPS 100 - Avg CPU 104% - Avg GPU 74%. So if you have the Division it would be great to try that. Wildlands is strange though as the benchmark shows fps53.3 - CPU 79.6% - GPU 86.4%, but in game I get 35-40fps - CPU 90% all the time and GPU only 60-65%.

1080ti is not under water but does not drop below 2012mhz so it's not throttling.

The 1080ti is a Zotac extreme and this is all default settings, the overlocking is just the boost it goes to all by itself.
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This is @ 1080p i'll do a 1440p for you once downloaded.

1080 Ti stoc CPU@ 4.3Ghz
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1080 Ti oc (2025mhz + 400mem) cpu 4.3Ghz

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Benchmarked wildlands last week for another forum post on here
 
Thanks Geordiejc, that's helpful and really appreciated. I don't have a image holding account so I can upload a grab but on 1080p I get fps:52.57, CPU:78.3%, GPU:78.0% so something isn't adding up.

Unfortunately something strange happened to dimm slots as I'm not able to run dual channel have and have the board post. I used to have one stick in each of the red primary slots and everything worked fine. Like I mentioned one day I went to switch the pc on and it wouldn't post and the diagnostisc on the board pointed to memory. I changed the slots around so both sticks are on the right hand side of the slots, one in red one in black and it posts and works fine. It's been like that for well over a year, probably 2. :)

I've decided I'm just going to get a new setup as this one has lasted me a fair few years so I could do with an update. I just have to decide whether to go for a 8700k if/when they become sensibly priced and in stock. Either that go for a 7700k to save a small amount of cash but forever think I should've just bought a 8700k. :)
 
Supa Koopa,

8GB of Ram running in single channel may not be helping, also what speed is the NB-Frequency running at? (look in CPU-z Memory tab). Have you tried resetting your system to default and run some benchmarks for comparison? . . . Most of the time one expects a system to run faster when over clocked but sometimes it doesn't always work out like that, especially if your not the best at overclocking stuff. Not sure what is going on with your motherboards ram slots, it's weird that it just stopped working?. In your boots I would reset the system to default to do some comparative benchmarks and have another go with moving the sticks around to see if you can get dual channel running.
 
sandys said:
Not if the game only uses a few threads.
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Yes even if it only uses a few threads.. explain how he would fix this then? There as been no massive gains in single core performance.
An i5 or i7 that is bottle bottlenecking you would see low gpu usage as the cpu is not feeding it with data. This test looks fine.
 
Thanks everyone, but as I said I've decided to just get an upgrade anyway. I've got the bug and the money is sitting in the bank. I was only looking at spending circa £600 but with CPU prices being so stupid and ram prices being ridiculous it looks like I'll have to spend more. I've looked at a 7700k system which will be closer to my budget but I'll just wish I'd waited and bought an 8700K, so I'll wait for things to settle a little and then order everything.

Once again thank you to everyone for their support. :)
 
Supa Koopa said:
Thanks everyone, but as I said I've decided to just get an upgrade anyway. I've got the bug and the money is sitting in the bank. I was only looking at spending circa £600 but with CPU prices being so stupid and ram prices being ridiculous it looks like I'll have to spend more. I've looked at a 7700k system which will be closer to my budget but I'll just wish I'd waited and bought an 8700K, so I'll wait for things to settle a little and then order everything.

Once again thank you to everyone for their support. :)
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All you need is cpu ram and motherboard. That's easy with 600.
Best options right now are amd 1700 or Intel 8400, should be around 500 max.
For 1440p gaming there both super too.
 
geordiejc said:
Overclockers UK the place to find an argument over tech since 1989. Haha
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So true! :D

8700k is £359 when not even remotely sensible, £379 definitely pushing it, £399 Seriously?
Z370 Board is realistically £250
Ram 16gb of 3200 is £190

So by my man maths that's £799 :( No offense to anyone else who has bought lesser chips but I don't want to be in the same situation in a couple of years time so I'm looking at the 8700k. I'm happy to spend now but I want it to last a good 5 years or so. The rest of the time will be gpu upgrades. There's only pcie 4 that will put an end to that idea.
 
Supa Koopa said:
So true! :D

8700k is £359 when not even remotely sensible, £379 definitely pushing it, £399 Seriously?
Z370 Board is realistically £250
Ram 16gb of 3200 is £190

So by my man maths that's £799 :( No offense to anyone else who has bought lesser chips but I don't want to be in the same situation in a couple of years time so I'm looking at the 8700k. I'm happy to spend now but I want it to last a good 5 years or so. The rest of the time will be gpu upgrades. There's only pcie 4 that will put an end to that idea.
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Emm,a £150 Z370 motherboard should be still OK(I suspect)and unless you are going for Samsung B-die chips I have seen 3200MHZ sets for closer to £140.

The Core i7 8700k has little stock,so when there is more stock prices will drop. Wait a bit and it will no doubt drop.

If its too much money still,then wait - AMD will need to release something to target Coffee Lake early next year,and by extension Intel will also will have to react too,and either drop prices or release better clocking chips. Intel will also release other chipsets next year - if the Z390 also gets a release,then hopefully that will support newer CPUs and by extension PCI-E 4.0,etc.
 
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