Is it worth changing platfrom from x79 4930k to 1151 8700k?

[springy1989]

I've had this system for over 3 years now and want to upgrade, but would it be worth it? I did use my system for programming and other high intensive software tasks but now I'm just looking for a system for just gaming, any advice would be great.

 

[springy1989]

It depends on what card you have,what games you run and at what resolution.

I have a 1080ti want it for battlefield 1, the new call of duty WW2 and the new final fantasy XV and wolfenstein 2 the new colossus, running on a resolution of 2560x1440?

 

[springy1989]

Have you overclocked your CPU?? I have an inkling as it is a 6C/12T CPU you might be OK as BF1 MP likes more cores,but the best thing is to probably just run the games with the GTX1080TI and see if performance looks fine.

I found with a 4C/8T IB Core i7 running at 3.5GHZ~3.7GHZ with a GTX1080 at qHD,I was still GPU limited in a number of modern titles,with the odd few being CPU limited.

Unfortunately I got unlucky with my CPU does not overclock well at all had to push the vcore up a lot just to get to 4.1Ghz, cant remember what the vcore was but I wasn't happy with it at all so just running it at stock this is under a custom watercooled build as well. Just thinking it was worth the upgrade because the 8700k is a 6 core processor and would overclock so much better also you can delid it as well. Not sure how much of an impact DD4 would be?

 

[springy1989]

Your heading towards GPU bound at that res, however i would say FF15 is more CPU bound, id want the best cpu performance if i was playing that, so id probably switch to 8700k

Tempting just got to wait for the Formula to arrive now.

 

[springy1989]

how many extra FPS are you going to get for your £800 outlay?

No idea facboy, its just been 3 years since a platform change and still on DDR3 just feels like its getting old now, plus I don't do intensive software tasks anymore just gaming so want a CPU that can overclock well and last me another 3 years also the delid is tempting me to change as well.

 

[springy1989]

What card do you have now?? I would probably upgrade the card first and move on from there.

A 1080TI pal.

 

[springy1989]

With 1080Ti at 1440p you are more likely GPU bound on many new games.
If you play single thread games like WOT yes you will see some different from moving to DDR4 platform of Broadwel-E or better level of IPC/perf.

From my experience, I moved from 4930K @ 4.5Ghz to 6700K @ 4.9Ghz and saw improvements in WOT, Stellaris, CK2.
However that didn't change regardless of the subsequent CPUs used. 6800K @ 4Ghz, 1700X & 1800X @ 4Ghz or 8600K @ 5.2Ghz. Performance remained the same. Though the system was better over the quad core, and more things could run on the background while gaming, like internet radio streaming, TS, and couple of browser windows.

Thanks for the input Panos

 

[springy1989]

If I was going to do a full system overhaul I wouldn't be looking at buyung socket 1151 TBH.

Jigger could you emphasize on why?

 

[springy1989]

So you already have the card - personally I would stay put and see how performance in the games fares. Remember the Core i7 8700k launch was pulled forward anyway so stock is quite low,so waiting a bit longer should help in that regard anyway if you want a new CPU.

If I was to upgrade to this platform I would be waiting till the end of November for the formula anyway as I'm on water