Upgrade from the 4770k ?

gb155 · 5 Apr 2016 at 11:50

I have a 4770k and a Z97X-UD3H with a 980TI

My Ram is Ripjaw 32gb

I have seen the combo of

6770k Z170 VIII Hero and water cooling

https://www.overclockers.co.uk/elit...ero-16gb-3200mhz-ddr4-hybrid-c-bu-044-as.html

Would this be an upgrade worth making ?

Ayahuasca · 5 Apr 2016 at 11:54

I'm guessing your 4770k is overclocked?

There are a few games that show nice minimum increases on the 6700k but even after the sale of your current hardware it's a £300 upgrade which is going to be very hard to notice.

abui1806 · 5 Apr 2016 at 11:56

not worth at all

pc-guy · 5 Apr 2016 at 12:35

Ayahuasca said:
I'm guessing your 4770k is overclocked?

There are a few games that show nice minimum increases on the 6700k but even after the sale of your current hardware it's a £300 upgrade which is going to be very hard to notice.

£300 upgrade. that might be a bit of an under estimate for the haswell CPU and Z97 board plus the 4 lots of 8 rather fast ram.

you should get around £150-180 for CPU alone if not £200 then another £60-80 for the mobo. the ram should be close to £200 on MM.

although I don't think its a justifiable upgrade. probably go for a broadwell if you really want to upgrade.

gb155 · 5 Apr 2016 at 12:46

pc-guy said:
£300 upgrade. that might be a bit of an under estimate for the haswell CPU and Z97 board plus the 4 lots of 8 rather fast ram.

you should get around £150-180 for CPU alone if not £200 then another £60-80 for the mobo. the ram should be close to £200 on MM.

although I don't think its a justifiable upgrade. probably go for a broadwell if you really want to upgrade.

Can you make suggestion please?

I mainly polay deep simulation games (Planet Coaster, No Limits, RCT) and run at 4k

Thanks

setter · 5 Apr 2016 at 12:52

6700k isn't worth the hassle of switching, the gains aren't very significant tbh.

andicole0 · 5 Apr 2016 at 12:53

i7 6800 and above will be available 'soon' which being 6/8/10 cores may be worth waiting to get a enough improvement.
Andi.

setter · 5 Apr 2016 at 13:06

I moved from a 4790k to the setup in sig. Sideways switch with most games at present, though this may change in future as games start to use more cores.

pc-guy · 5 Apr 2016 at 13:11

gb155 said:
Can you make suggestion please?

I mainly polay deep simulation games (Planet Coaster, No Limits, RCT) and run at 4k

Thanks

are you experiencing performance issues? I am not a gamer, but I would think its more to do with GFX performance than CPU.

I wouldn't think going to DDR4 will give significant improvement to the DDR3 you have.

Your card is top of the range as it is so maybe SLI it to get the boost.

gb155 · 5 Apr 2016 at 16:12

Thanks for all the help so far, Ive never done the whole SLI, was also under the impression that 2 cards didn't double performance tho, is that still true?

Also been advised that the memory I have by today standards is "Slow" is this true??

as this is one area I'm lacking

IvanDobskey · 5 Apr 2016 at 16:17

I don't think memory speed will affect gaming too much. Only noticeable in benchmark tests and memory intensive apps.

Stick with what you have, not worth the expense for a minimal upgrade. I'm still happy with my old 2500k.

Ayahuasca · 5 Apr 2016 at 16:17

pc-guy said:
£300 upgrade. that might be a bit of an under estimate for the haswell CPU and Z97 board plus the 4 lots of 8 rather fast ram.

you should get around £150-180 for CPU alone if not £200 then another £60-80 for the mobo. the ram should be close to £200 on MM.

Not sure 32gb of slow ddr3 is going to go for £200.

jigger · 5 Apr 2016 at 16:26

Your system is right at the top of the tree, just overclock the memory.

SLI GTX980ti's wouldn't be worth considering unless you plan on running at massive resolutions and yes you never see the full benfit and some times SLI means a performance hit.

If you have money burning whole in your pocket buy a big SSD maybe. You can get a Intel 750 Series 800GB drive for well under £500 now.

gb155 · 5 Apr 2016 at 16:52

Thanks everyone, can someone talk me though the memeory overclocking please?

gb155 · 5 Apr 2016 at 17:39

Ayahuasca said:
I'm guessing your 4770k is overclocked?

There are a few games that show nice minimum increases on the 6700k but even after the sale of your current hardware it's a £300 upgrade which is going to be very hard to notice.

Nop, only got a cheap £20 zalmann cooler so didnt think it was a good idea?

new boy · 5 Apr 2016 at 17:57

I wouldn't bother overclocking the RAM. Your probably not going to get much out of it, and even if you did, you wouldn't notice the difference anyway.

A CPU cooler upgrade and overclocking the CPU could be worthwhile though if that interests you.

pc-guy · 5 Apr 2016 at 18:25

Ayahuasca said:
Not sure 32gb of slow ddr3 is going to go for £200.

maybe not £200 but not £40-60 in your estimate...i would say £150 so you are still easily £100 off the mark

Ayahuasca · 5 Apr 2016 at 19:13

pc-guy said:
maybe not £200 but not £40-60 in your estimate...i would say £150 so you are still easily £100 off the mark

I doubt it will even go for that, you can buy new kits for £140 at a much better speed lol.

I think you were the one way off the mark

Telecaster · 5 Apr 2016 at 19:54

gb155 said:
Nop, only got a cheap £20 zalmann cooler so didnt think it was a good idea?

Then that is your best bet for performance/££ upgrade IMO, buy a really nice cooler and get the best clock from your current CPU and use it for a long time to come yet.

gb155 · 5 Apr 2016 at 20:11

Telecaster said:
Then that is your best bet for performance/££ upgrade IMO, buy a really nice cooler and get the best clock from your current CPU and use it for a long time to come yet.

What sort of cooler would I be looking at and how far can I push the cpu? Im a novice to overclocking