Old i7 for gaming?

Wing-Man · 12 Jan 2022 at 21:09

If your running an i5 6500 is a 6th/7th gen i7 a worthwhile option as a cheap upgrade to get gaming performance

Or is it full upgrade time

Wing-Man · 12 Jan 2022 at 21:37

jigger said:
Depends on the graphics card. I was very impressed at the performance recently running a Skylake i7 and RX 6600XT.

I suppose it depends what kind of performance you are looking for.

I do believe he as a 5600xt he was about to upgrade before the world went mad

Wing-Man · 13 Jan 2022 at 09:39

Game said:
what games are you using the 6500 for

He plays modern but older games like battlefield 1, PUBG the games have worked with his i5 but the setting are slammed. I'm starting to upgrade my pc each payday and I have an i7 so considering selling it to him for the cost of an ssd

Wing-Man · 13 Jan 2022 at 19:55

Game said:
just check his board is compatable a lot of them even though on the same socket didnt support the next gen

Mmmm that's a good point, the system is a pre build.

Wing-Man · 14 Jan 2022 at 21:20

humbug said:
If you think you're going to be running an RTX 3070 or higher with a CPU like that in modern titles, you're in for a bad ride. if your more about e-Sports its fine

As mentioned he as a 5600xt

Wing-Man · 14 Jan 2022 at 21:37

Amd gpu 5600xt not the 5600x cpu

Wing-Man · 14 Jan 2022 at 21:46

humbug said:
He's fine, he would need a 6900XT before that 5600X starts running out of steam.

I'm going to assume you have had a beer or 2, nobody mentioned a 5600x cpu

Wing-Man · 15 Jan 2022 at 13:21

CAT-THE-FIFTH said:
If you are on a budget a Core i5 10400F or Core i5 11400F for around £120~£140 with a £100 B560 motherboard will be a good value for money upgrade.

I'm in the process of upgrading to an i5 and I plan on letting my pal have my i7 for the oft of an ssd.

Wing-Man · 15 Jan 2022 at 13:57

jigger said:
Yeah, that is a massive upgrade for £150. Zero point swapping to a 7700K. You could even get away with a top heavy graphics card upgrade by increasing the resolution to level out the performance.

I like how only 3 people have taken the time to ready the post.

I am upgrade from an i7 with a rx580...
My friend as the i5 and 5600xt. The point of this post is to see if there is any point in him buying my i7 for the cost of an ssd.

I will be doing a full upgrade.
He as no intention to upgrade anything. He was going to up grade before prices went nuts, that's when he got the 5600xt. But now his not in a position financially to upgrade

Wing-Man · 15 Jan 2022 at 14:07

Journey said:
You wrote:

If your running an i5 6500 is a 6th/7th gen i7 a worthwhile option as a cheap upgrade to get gaming performance

Or is it full upgrade time

Yes, is it would getting the i7 or dose he need to just wait a few months could be a year.

Wing-Man · 15 Jan 2022 at 14:10

CAT-THE-FIFTH said:
Out of interest when you say the cost of an SSD,is something like £70ish for a 1TB one?? At that price it would be worth it as they gain higher base clockspeeds and HT which should help in the games you mentioned earlier. Plus CEX will buy their Core i5 6500 for £18 in cash,so that would reduce the cost to them even further. I would also make sure they get a decent £20~£30 CPU cooler(unless they already have one).

Also what motherboard do they have?? If the RAM can be set at a higher speed it would also help performance as would be a better CPU cooler.

Yer about 60/70 for a 1tb. I do believe he as an ok 120mm cooler fitted.
I would assume it's just budget RAM as its a prebuild system.

Wing-Man · 16 Jan 2022 at 15:29

hornetstinger said:
I'm still playing on xeon 5670 and ati 480 everything pretty muchs high setting and native and +60fps, forza 90 fps...

That's x58 right? This is an old boy, but I suspect the 12 threads are what keeping it going.

Wing-Man · 16 Jan 2022 at 18:23

hornetstinger said:
Yup overclocked to 3.8ghz

Native res of 2560x1440, freesyc monitor

Stuff like this makes me think x99 would be a good option the 8c16t cpus are silly cheap and not affected by the cpu shortage.

Wing-Man · 16 Jan 2022 at 23:08

jigger said:
You could go 5700G, decent A520 board and 1tb NVME for less.

Where. That's a £300+ cpu, McFall was talking about a system without a gpu, not just cpu, mobile and ssd

Wing-Man · 17 Jan 2022 at 10:44

jigger said:
Everywhere.

You didn't read my question did you. For less than 450 like you said you can build a full babe system minus the gpu. Show me

Wing-Man · 17 Jan 2022 at 10:57

jigger said:
I did read what was said. Anyone can build that system.

So please do. For less that 450 so let's say 440, minus the 310 cpu and 70 for the 1tb ssd you said can be had. So for 60.. case, ram, psu and motherboard please show me

Wing-Man · 17 Jan 2022 at 11:11

jigger said:
You are very confrontational for someone asking others for help.

I see you are new. You should read the forum rules and understanding I can’t link to other retailers.

I see your a long time member, you should read the thread and see what advice I was asking for then you will so your post is wrong.
I was asking about the performance difference with an skylake i5 vs i7 in today's games.

Wing-Man · 18 Jan 2022 at 09:42

Alan McFall said:
Why are you getting so irate ??

My question was for the guy saying he could build a 5700g system for less than what you said

Wing-Man · 18 Jan 2022 at 09:56

Alan McFall said:
Hahahah, that makes sense, thought you were talking to me, was very confused.

No not at all, I'm looking at 10400f system myself

Wing-Man · 18 Jan 2022 at 10:45

dave28 said:
Waste of time, at least go for i7-8700K

Ok