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Should I upgrade my i5 6600?

spudbynight

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I've got a Core i5 6600 in my PC at the moment. I have it paired with a Radeon R9 380.

I'm going to be upgrading the GPU in the next few months to either a Geforce GTX 1660 or an RTX 2060. Will the 6600 be a bottleneck in that? Should I be looking to upgrade the CPU as well, or will I get another 12months+ out of it?
 
I would upgrade just the GPU - you'll be very impressed with the speed increase in games. It's the best performance to price ratio upgrade. Plus, whatever GPU you get could be placed into any future upgrade - but the 6600 coupled with a 1660/RTX2060/V56 will be a significant performance boost from your present R9 380.

The 6600 will slightly impede the full potential of the GPU but nothing that you will notice/be able to compare to. However, if the 6600 is the k flavour (is it 6600k?) - consider clocking it at the same time - you'll gain even more performance from the new card and achieve a 'relatively' cheap upgrade for big performance improvement in games.

What res are you gaming at?
 
spudbynight said:
It isn't the unlocked version. I'm currently gaming at 1080p.
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Not ideal but even a locked 6600 paired with a 1660/RTX2060/V56 will see a big performance bump in all games until you can upgrade to a better CPU.

When you're ready to upgrade the CPU you could consider the members market and your system could be brought back up to date with a relatively small outlay.

In the mean time you should be more than impressed with the performance jump that a new midrange GPU will bring to your system. I recommend you look at some YouYube videos of 6600's paired with 1060/1070s - loads out there - and look at the average FPS (note lots will be clocked K version but will still give you a ball park performance boost to expect)
 
spudbynight said:
It isn't the unlocked version. I'm currently gaming at 1080p.
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If you. Have a z170 motherboard you can overclock none k chips. I have just overclocked my gf's 6600t to 4.1ghz with ease, I would think I could have done a lot more.
Overclockers sold a 6400 bundle clocked at 4.5ghz

Anyway you should upgrade gpu. In a gaming system it was almost always have a big impact.
 
I don't have a z170 motherboard, unfortunately.

At the moment I have a 6600 with a H170M-PLUS and an R9 380 with 2GB of VRAM. I have 8GB of RAM.

I am beginning to think I might hold off a few months see what the new AMD chips are like and upgrade the GPU, CPU, Motherboard and add another 8GB of RAM
 
If it helps, I'm still rocking a 6600k (@4.6GHz) with a GTX 1070, and can run most things at an acceptable FPS. I'd love to upgrade to something with at least 8 cores with a clock speed above 4.5Ghz, but the cost/benefit just doesn't make sense to me right now.

My advice would be to hold fire until the new Ryzen drops if you can, a new GPU seems like the smart move to me.
 
Buy a gpu even if you wait for new CPU's you will grill need a new gpu.

Also just to add. The GF did game on the 6600t stock for a week and it was fine, all core turbo is only 3.3ghz
 
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