Thinking of upgrading to i58600k

Bewsher88 · 16 Nov 2017 at 13:03

As title says thinking of upgrading to i58600k was wondering what motherboard people would suggest for this chip?

orbitalwalsh · 16 Nov 2017 at 13:48

What current CPU do you have , as if you've got say a 1st/2nd gen i5 you might want to think of jumping to the 6 core i5 8400 or i5 8600k which should show you an increase in performance.
If your rocking 3rd gen might want to fink about getting a 2nd hand i7 K chip .
Also the thought of Ryzen too for price to performance value

Bewsher88 · 16 Nov 2017 at 14:10

My current cpu is only a i56400 2.7ghz. What would u suggest as a good upgrade I’m looking to play a lot of aaa games in high/ultra settings in 1080.

mattyfez · 16 Nov 2017 at 15:19

What's the rest of you system?

orbitalwalsh · 16 Nov 2017 at 15:41

If you were going.to then adding 6700/7700k would be the logical choice as they'd last you longer then the i5 K versions .

Worth seeing if your currently bottlenecking your system and if so by how much . If you've to a got powerful card, try upscaling .

Bewsher88 · 16 Nov 2017 at 18:43

My card is the gtx 1060 6gb 16gb of ram. But I am hoping to upgrade card in future to as I would like to try and aim for 144hz.

mattyfez · 16 Nov 2017 at 18:49

It should cope with pretty much all games fine at 1080p, what sort of issues are you having? Low fps in some game?

Also bear in mind some graphics settings are barely noticeable, if noticeable at all when going from high to ultra, other than hitting your frame rates.

orbitalwalsh · 16 Nov 2017 at 19:05

mattyfez said:
It should cope with pretty much all games fine at 1080p, what sort of issues are you having? Low fps in some game?

Also bear in mind some graphics settings are barely noticeable, if noticeable at all when going from high to ultra, other than hitting your frame rates.

Would be the i5 running at 2.7ghz .

A quick solution is normally whacking everything up to ultra to get the GPU working harder or upscaling a bit.

OP you'll need to view your CPU/GPU usage in games . That way you'll be able to see if the i5 locked at 2.7ghz is the problem

mattyfez · 16 Nov 2017 at 19:09

Should boost up to 3.3 though?

https://ark.intel.com/products/88185/Intel-Core-i5-6400-Processor-6M-Cache-up-to-3_30-GHz

Bewsher88 · 16 Nov 2017 at 19:28

Yeah it does boost upto 3.3. I’ve been playing abit of fortnite and if I go into task manager I can see I’m using like 80-90% cpu and with other background processes it’s some times at 100% cpu

mattyfez · 16 Nov 2017 at 19:31

What are your frame rates like though?
If temps are good and frame rates smooth, it doesn't really matter if the CPU is running at near capacity.

Bewsher88 · 16 Nov 2017 at 20:02

I get between 80-100 fps in fortnite. But it’s destiny 2 I get low fps when I do public events on planet Titan I get dips below 50 but normally in story missions or pvp I get over 100fps.

mattyfez · 16 Nov 2017 at 20:08

Sounds about correct.. And sounds generally playable.

You'd really need to upgrade both cpu and gpu to eliminate the odd frame rate dip, especially if you want to play at 144hz and or 1440p.. but obviously that's expensive.

Bewsher88 · 16 Nov 2017 at 20:28

Exactly and with it being Black Friday was thinking I could maybe get a deal on a cpu and then in the near future try getting a 1070ti or 1080 maybe? But just not sure what cpu I should try going for really?