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Upgrade from i3 6100

Drake5

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I bought an i3 6100 only a couple weeks a go and I want to upgrade it just for a bit more performance in games really

With a budget of about £180 what options do I have
 
The motherboard is a H110M-K Intel H110 I think you can overclock on it

6600k looks to be about £220 new so I think I'll try and get one from the MM
 
Well that changes things because it's not really worth me buying a 6600k unless I buy a z170 which I wouldn't be able to afford both as the cheapest motherboard is about £90 it seems, kinda ridiculous you need certain motherboard to overclock now

Or what I could do is get the 6600k now and a different motherboard next time, the 6600k would work at stock wouldn't it ?
 
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Never heard of that CPU before tbh, not really sure how to go about this

As I said before I know the 6600k is only 200Mhz faster but the other 2 cores will help won't they
 
Martini1991 said:
The Xeons are rarely on compatability lists, should work anyway.

And the i3/i5 situation is a fallacy, there will be absolute minimum games where an i5 will perform worse, especially when you consider boost.
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Ok so kinda confusing really, 2 people saying different things....

I need to decide wether to go for a 6600k K or a xeon.... Or I need to decide to go for faster 16GB ram first
 
Guess I need to figure out which upgrade path to take then, as I only have a certain budget.... Could go for the CPU first then mobo and then ram after

I'm not really sure how much faster ram effects performance, seems to be as much as 10fps on some websites though
 
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mickyflinn said:
Incorrect.

The 6600k base clock is 3.5ghz it boost to 3.9ghz making it 200mhz faster than the 6100.

http://ark.intel.com/products/88191/Intel-Core-i5-6600K-Processor-6M-Cache-up-to-3_90-GHz
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A lot of different information in this thread

I guess I just want to know if getting a 6600k without overclocking it for now will be a good idea.... The main thing I'm struggling with is when I'm playing games and have other applications open I'm notcing my CPU usage maxing out which sometimes causes lag spikes, a better CPU would stop this from happening? I do also only have 8GB RAM at the moment but I never really seem RAM usage maxing out
 
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