• Competitor rules

    Please remember that any mention of competitors, hinting at competitors or offering to provide details of competitors will result in an account suspension. The full rules can be found under the 'Terms and Rules' link in the bottom right corner of your screen. Just don't mention competitors in any way, shape or form and you'll be OK.

upgrade itch. i7 3770k @4.8GHz

Chaos666

Chaos666

Chaos666

Associate
Joined
26 Nov 2015
Posts
1,642
Location
Derby
Hi everybody :>

as title says i have a very nice i7 3770k that runs 4.5GHz @1.2 or 4.8GHz @ 1.34
it sits in a Maximus V Extreme. I play on 1440p 60hz monitor. I can usually hit 60fps in all modern games.

I'm thinking about getting i7 7700k but i cant really justify the cost. I feel the upgrade itch but I'm afraid I'm going to be disappointed cause there wont be any real gain.
I watch Digital Foundry's comparison videos and it shows better fps in some games with newer CPU's but they do all their testing in 1080p with titan x.
Obviously in 1440p the gap will be smaller. Right? :>

please help me decide :D

my 3dmark scores
http://www.3dmark.com/spy/2148677

http://www.3dmark.com/fs/13247947
 
Keep 3770k and get a better GPU, sell 1070 while prices are up and get 1080 or 1080ti. You will see better improvement then upgrading to 7700k with 1070.
 
Waste of time upgrading to 7700k really, new stuff is cool to play with but I doubt you would notice a difference. As others have already said a GPU and maybe monitor would be much better.
 
I wouldn't be buying into a potentially dead end socket (1151) at this time. Coffee Lake might work in a Z270 but it's probably more likely you'll need a new motherboard.
 
I read somewhere that it's confirmed that coffee lake will work in z270. My worry is that once intel starts selling 6core i7 cpus my 3770k will loose a lot of value
 
Chaos666 said:
I read somewhere that it's confirmed that coffee lake will work in z270. My worry is that once intel starts selling 6core i7 cpus my 3770k will loose a lot of value
Click to expand...
They dont fetch that much now tbh. As for coffeelake working in z270 nothing is known about that yet.
 
Chaos666 said:
I read somewhere that it's confirmed that coffee lake will work in z270. My worry is that once intel starts selling 6core i7 cpus my 3770k will loose a lot of value
Click to expand...


About £150 on an internet based auction site for a used 3770k.

There is always someone willing to buy that chip, you'd be surprised.
 
TallPaul1878 said:
There is always someone willing to buy that chip, you'd be surprised.
Click to expand...

I would be, if they were nearer £75 than 150... Not sure where people have gotten the idea that old/2nd hand electronics shouldn't depreciate, and don't even get me started on the sealed-box ones for more than the selling price at launch!
 
eddiew said:
I would be, if they were nearer £75 than 150... Not sure where people have gotten the idea that old/2nd hand electronics shouldn't depreciate, and don't even get me started on the sealed-box ones for more than the selling price at launch!
Click to expand...

It's the limited supply. Intel decide to change socket every 2 years so if you bought a Sandy Bridge i5 and decide to upgrade to a used i7 then you can't even go and pick up a 4790k which you would more likely find as they are a bit newer. It's a completely different socket so you're screwed there.

For the OP though, he is after higher resolutions. 1440p and 4K will make you GPU bound a lot more. That's where you want to have the best graphics card you can get hold of.
 
Last edited by a moderator:
On a 60hz monitor the 3770K, especially overclocked, is not a bottleneck, even in the most CPU demanding games like BF1 online or Fallout 4 etc. Neither should the GTX1070 be in any games really to be perfectly honest.

What games are you playing? I can't see the need for any upgrades at all, but if I had to pick something I would definitely take a 3770K + GTX1080/ti over a 7700K + GTX1070 on a 60hz monitor.
 
TallPaul1878 said:
For the OP though, he is after higher resolutions. 1440p and 4K will make you GPU bound a lot more. That's where you want to have the best graphics card you can get hold of.
Click to expand...

Yes I do have higher resolutions in mind. My. Monitor is 1440p and I also play on my 4k TV sometimes. I'm just wondering if I'm loosing a lot of frames with my cpu.

It seems that the best thing I can do is buy a 1080 or 1080ti now and change the whole platform after coffee lake launches
 
You're not loosing a single frame at 60hz. You would be if you had a >60hz display, but not at standard 60hz. At 1440P and obviously especially 4K the GPU will take the strain.
 
Games like Witcher 3 don't run on max settings at 1440p. FPS goes down to 48-55 in some scenarios. But it's probably still gpu that can't keep up
 
It should with hairworks off. Its not really worth enabling hairworks, imo the hair looks worse on geralt but looks better on the horses tail for a 20~fps drop.

1080ti is needed for hairworks on and stable 60fps at 1440p+

my 2500k can get a locked 60fps at 1080p in W3, its not really cpu demanding for anything modern
 
I dunno,I get 60FPS on a GTX1080 at qHD with everything at max in the W3,whilst roaming through the countryside(and have Hairworks activated). I am using a Xeon E3 1230 V2/Core i7 3770 BTW.
 
I'm not saying its always bellow 60.. just certain areas/situations.
I''ll try without hairworks... although lowering detail from uber to high is giving me stable 60
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top Bottom