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Upgrade or overclock 6600k

Nitrams64

Nitrams64

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Hi my I5 6600k @stock is my bottleneck and i feel i need to overclock or upgrade.i've pre ordered Half life alyx with a minium spec of i5-7500.
Will i be able to play it or should i just upgrade overclock. The board will take a I7 7700k but not sure if it would be much of an upgrade for the price, may be better with new board cpu. Help
 
Nitrams64 said:
Hi my I5 6600k @stock is my bottleneck and i feel i need to overclock or upgrade.i've pre ordered Half life alyx with a minium spec of i5-7500.
Will i be able to play it or should i just upgrade overclock. The board will take a I7 7700k but not sure if it would be much of an upgrade for the price, may be better with new board cpu. Help
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overclock it , see how you get on .

are you playing at 1080p or 1440p with that Vega 56 ? If 1080p then in-game upscale to 1440p to ease the CPU .

Zen3 Q3 and Intel 10th Q2 not to long to wait . Zen3 is meant to have a great leap then Zen2 (Ryzen 3***) was over Zen1 so fingers crossed . 4.7ghz overclock should do you
 
Sell your motherboard CPU and ram and grab a b450 ryzen 5 3600 and 16gb of 3200+ ram. The 6600k goes for almost as much used as a new r5 3600 so the full upgrade would probably set you back less than 100 quid net and you would have an upgrade path for years to come.
 
Joxeon said:
Sell your motherboard CPU and ram and grab a b450 ryzen 5 3600 and 16gb of 3200+ ram. The 6600k goes for almost as much used as a new r5 3600 so the full upgrade would probably set you back less than 100 quid net and you would have an upgrade path for years to come.
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I would probably do this. I was thinking about it with my 5960x but it not really worth it for me.
 
koooowweeee said:
You'll get both with a GPU upgrade.
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even a 2080ti at 4K will not save it.
Take a look at this poor 9100f which is faster than a 6600k and even at 4K it gets **** on.

So Yes it is a question of do you want higher average frames or smoother frames, you can't have both even at 4K the 6600k will not deliver a smooth experience

 
Grim5 said:
even a 2080ti at 4K will not save it.
Take a look at this poor 9100f which is faster than a 6600k and even at 4K it gets **** on.

So Yes it is a question of do you want higher average frames or smoother frames, you can't have both even at 4K the 6600k will not deliver a smooth experience

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OP has none of them parts. There will hardly be any bottle neck if any with what he has.

Nout like a bit of exaggeration, eh?
 
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Overclock your 6600k and see if your happy to hold on until new AMD/Intel CPU's show up.

Unfortunately your stuck in stange place in terms of upgrades as I was about a year ago because people are stupidly still paying around £150 for a 6700k/7700k and why its still happening today given a 3600 has gone way down in price I don't know.

Edit: When I did upgrade I manged to pick up a 8600k for cheep and went to a 8700k which was cheeper then a 3600 at the time but if I was upgrading today I would either wait or pick up a 3600.
 
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Recently done similar as my 4690k (which was OC'ed to 4.6GHz) was bottlenecking in some titles with Vega 56. Difference in Forza Motorsport 4 is night and day with a 3700X now.
 
Thanks for all the replies i think in the short term i will have a go at overclocking but in the long term i think i will have to upgrade. Selling the Board ram and cpu would be a good way to reduce costs.
I'll head on over to the OC forum and see if i can find an easy overclock on this z170.
 
The Asus auto OC feature is pretty good to get a baseline to work from, try that. I used it on my 4690k (Z97 board), and it got a stable 4.3GHz at not silly voltage with ease - I managed to increase that to 4.6GHz and lower the auto OC voltage a little bit as well. But tbh it would have been fine to use on that auto set 4.4GHz overclock.

Just make sure you have a decent cooling solution and its working properly, stock cooler won't cut it.
 
Hi i was looking for the multiplier ratio in the bios but can't find it anywhere or i'm just missing it. Have upgraded to latest bios so it's maybe not a feature on this board.
Have used the Al suite and got it to 4.4 with no voltage increase. I am running on watercooling.
 
Joxeon said:
Sell your motherboard CPU and ram and grab a b450 ryzen 5 3600 and 16gb of 3200+ ram. The 6600k goes for almost as much used as a new r5 3600 so the full upgrade would probably set you back less than 100 quid net and you would have an upgrade path for years to come.
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This.
 
Nitrams64 said:
Hi i was looking for the multiplier ratio in the bios but can't find it anywhere or i'm just missing it. Have upgraded to latest bios so it's maybe not a feature on this board.
Have used the Al suite and got it to 4.4 with no voltage increase. I am running on watercooling.
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Search this for "EZ Tuning"
https://dlcdnets.asus.com/pub/ASUS/mb/LGA1151/Z170-A/E10611_Z170-A_UM_V2_WEB.pdf

4.4GHz all core with no voltage increase is pretty reasonable, if thats stable I'd just put that multiplier in the BIOS and leave it, see how you go.
 
Yup you are in the same situation I found myself in with the 6700k.
Stuck on 4 cores with no worthwhile upgrade path.

Time to make that jump to a Ryzen / AM4.
I got rid of both my Intel rigs in 2019 and I have zero regrets.
 
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