My New Upgrade

JoeDin2056 · 14 Jun 2017 at 19:17

Hi all, So i have just purchased my self an upgrade, and was wondering what you all think.

First up is my CPU. My old one was an i7-5820k(3.30ghz, 6 cores, 12 threads, 15mb cach). I have now upgraded to an i7-7700K (4.50ghz, 4 cores, 8 threads, 8mb cach). I know this is not a major upgrade but it will give some performance boots.

Second up is my motherboard. My old on was a Gigabyte X99 Gaming 5. I have now changed to Asus Strix B250F Gaming. The only reason i have changed this because my old x99 has been somewhat faulty for about half a year now causing me odd problems here and their.

Next up is my RAM. My old one was Team Group Elite 6gb DDR4 2133mhz (1x 4gb and 1x 2gb). Now my upgrade is 32gb DDR4 2400mhz Corsair Vengeance (4x 8gb)

Finally i have upgraded my GPU. My old setup was 2 Nvidia GTX 980ti's in SLI. They had 6gb or vram each. I have now replaced them with 1 single Nvidia GTX 1080ti with 11gb vram.

I have dropped from 2 gpus to 1 as i had lots of in game issue in many games with my sli enabled. In some games i was forced to turn off the sli to make them work. I have purchased these updates to help improve my performance in games, as thats what i mainly use it for.

I do my gaming with 4K resolution and on my old setup most of the games were getting between 24-35 fps and older games around 40fps. So im hopeful that i new gen i7, extra ram and a more powerful gpu will help get me a stable 50/60fps.

JoeDin2056 · 14 Jun 2017 at 19:49

i know the 5820k can be overclocked but i dont want to do that, my room is hot enough as is without the extra heat from an overclocked cpu.

As for the ram speed i was going to buy 32gb that ran at 3000mhz but looking at the motherboard i was buying it said that with the 7th gen cpus any ram faster than 2400mhz would only run at 2400mhz. so i deiced not to buy faster and have some as a wast.

JoeDin2056 · 14 Jun 2017 at 19:52

pastymuncher said:
That's not a move that I would have made and additionally you have now got a unlocked cpu that can't be overclocked because of the motherboard choice. Another issue is that you have slow ram. Reviews have shown the 7700k to have up to 20% improved performance with memory that is 3000mhz or more. You should have asked on here for opinions before buying.

Even your old setup was poorly optimised as you had a quad channel memory platform running a pair of odd memory sticks so may have been running in single channel. No wonder performance was poor. The 5820k also overclocks pretty well so running at stock would have lost you performance too.

Sorry to be blunt but that's the way I see things from what you have written.

If you where to make changes to make it better and had a budget of about £800 for a new i7, 32gb ram and a motherboard what would you buy?
my order is still only in the processing stage so i may be able to make changes. the parts i order came to £717 i could stretch to £800

JoeDin2056 · 14 Jun 2017 at 22:28

Thanks for the info, the board is just out of warranty i got about 4 years ago on February. For now i will see how i go once everything arrives. If im not happy with something i can send them back within 7 days.

JoeDin2056 · 15 Jun 2017 at 16:40

i have a custom case, its raised about 5cms off the floor. Has 1 120mm fan on the bottom pulling cool air in, 2 120mm fans on the front pulling air in, 2 120mm fans blow air out from the top. then on the back is the 2 fans on an all in 1 water cooler for the cpu.