not needed am upgrade but maybe it's time

[wahee]

hi all


I currently have a Asus P8P67 pro mobo with a 2600K i7 socket 1155 processor OC'd stable to 4.8 on watercooling. 16GB ddr3

I'm mainly into gaming and electronic music, plus a bit of video editing.

It still handles everything I throw at at. I used to be a serial 'upgrade'r but since having this excellent chip, there seems to be not much point as I may only get say a 10-20% performance increase, especially as multipliers and clock speed increased have stalled on new chips

I did spot this though..

Intel Core i7-6700K 4.0GHz (Skylake) Socket LGA1151 Processor
https://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CP-581-IN

Asus Maximus VIII Hero Intel Z170 (Socket 1151) DDR4 ATX Motherboard
https://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MB-651-AS

what do you recon on performance increase, worth the money?

all feedback welcome

cheers

 

[SamyBoy13]

If you want to upgrade go for x99 platform as you can get 5820k 6 core for 299.99 + mobo price.

If you find that cpu does what is should you can upgrade. But you said you render videos so ho much video a day a week etc?

Personally I would keep this cpu and motherboard if you are mainly gaming. This is the best cpu ever made for all of this years it stood the test of time.

 

[freddie64]

Agree with SamyBoy. X99 if you really have to upgrade.

That's the problem when you get very good components, it's hard to find anything worth the extra outlay.

What is the rest of your spec?

Maybe something else needs tweaking (SSD or GPU).

 

[wahee]

Thanks for very much for the replies.

The system has been the best I have ever had.

I probably would only render video about once a week and it's fine on this system.

Power supply is a EVGA 1000

graphics card is a Sapphire Toxic r290 4MB
Samsung pro SSD 120GB for boot
and 1.5 TB HD for other stuff

I run a triple monitor setup from it with some success. I still find even the 290 can only handle 2 monitors properly at the same time.