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Old i7 for gaming?

i7 6700K here, with a 3070 founders. I'm still pretty happy with it, performance is good enough for me ATM. Flight sim is getting 30-60fps @ 1440p with everything on max. That's with render scaling as my monitor is a pretty lame 1080p AOC. Was tempted by a 12700K setup but think I'm going to wait till the tail end of this year......
 
With a 5600XT as a base, and keeping the cost right down one you've sold the i5/Mobo/RAM then I'd get the below

CPU: Intel Core i5-10400F 2.9 GHz 6-Core Processor
Motherboard: MSI B560M PRO-VDH WIFI Micro ATX LGA1200 Motherboard
Memory: Crucial Ballistix 16 GB (2 x 8 GB) DDR4-3200 CL16 Memory
Total: ~£279

No point in spending more on a 12400(F) and a more expensive LGA1700 board to get almost no extra performance from it, unless you somehow manage to get a much faster GPU for good price. If prices do normalise again, you can easily sell this kit and get whatever you need with a small loss, but probably end up on a platform that will last longer anyhow. You'll have probably spent £150 after selling the old kit, which is about what an i7 7700K costs at auction.
 
Journey said:
With a 5600XT as a base, and keeping the cost right down one you've sold the i5/Mobo/RAM then I'd get the below

CPU: Intel Core i5-10400F 2.9 GHz 6-Core Processor
Motherboard: MSI B560M PRO-VDH WIFI Micro ATX LGA1200 Motherboard
Memory: Crucial Ballistix 16 GB (2 x 8 GB) DDR4-3200 CL16 Memory
Total: ~£279

No point in spending more on a 12400(F) and a more expensive LGA1700 board to get almost no extra performance from it, unless you somehow manage to get a much faster GPU for good price. If prices do normalise again, you can easily sell this kit and get whatever you need with a small loss, but probably end up on a platform that will last longer anyhow. You'll have probably spent £150 after selling the old kit, which is about what an i7 7700K costs at auction.
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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.
 
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.
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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 said:
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.
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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.
 
Journey said:
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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
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Yes, is it would getting the i7 or dose he need to just wait a few months could be a year.
 
Its an RX 5600XT guys, In Nvidia terms that's a GTX 1080, is it really worth swapping the whole platform for that? Motherboard, CPU and Cooler when the 7700K will do the job as a straight CPU swap?
 
Wing-Man said:
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
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If your both happy to do a swap then go for it, you get an SSD and your friend gets a better CPU that's will bottleneck his GPU less than his current processor.
 
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.
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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.
 
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Wing-Man said:
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.
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If they sell their old CPU to CEX,that's closer to £50 and the CPU cooler should be enough at stock I suspect. The extra threads should help a bit in modern games,as will the higher base clockspeed and extra cache.
 
I had a 6700k with an RTX 3070 and it ran everything with no problems at 3440 x 1440. I did get a nice jump when I switched the processor to a 5600x as the 3070 was being held back by the 6700k. It depends on expectations and budget. The jump should only cost you ~£50 after selling your current CPU and it won't lose much value if you want a 'proper' upgrade in a year or two. This comparison (https://cpu.userbenchmark.com/Compare/Intel-Core-i7-6700K-vs-Intel-Core-i5-6500/3502vs3513) thinks it's about a ~30% gain but more applications are multithreaded and utilize more cores since that comparison was done so I'd expect to see a >30% improvement. Having said that it doesn't list the applications that were used for benchmarking.

Gaming wise the improvement looks less than 30%, there are a bunch of game comparisons done with a GTX 1660 with those two CPUs at various resolutions and settings - see https://www.gpucheck.com/compare-ga...core-i7-6700k-4-00ghz/nvidia-geforce-gtx-1660 and you can scroll down to click on the different games for more benchmarks.
 
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