Upgrade Time Need Some Advice Please

Zanna

Zanna

Zanna

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Hi all.
Currently running a 3770k at 4.5ghz and while it's served me well it just doesn't seem to be doing so good anymore.
Been looking at the 4790 bundles as they seem like great bang for your buck, I game and stream and so was hoping for something which can cope with both.
Is Skylake worth it atm?
I'll basically be grabbing Cpu, Mobo, PSU, Ram and just sticking with my 780 for now until I can spare the cash for a worthwhile upgrade.
Any advice would be welcome please :)
 
You are not gaining much performance advantage from going what you have to a Haswell/Devils canyon CPU.

Its around >10% clock per clock speed better, so if both are at 4Ghz or 4.5Ghz then one is 10% or maybe less better.

A stronger upgrade would possibly be X99+5820K but that also means wanting a quad DDR4 kit.

But you say game+stream and you dont need X99 for that either.

Do you have an SSD?
 
Yes have an SSD.
I'm not sure if my mobo is holding this CPU back but If I'm gonna upgrade that I'd rather just go for a newer chip aswell.
Tend to find I'm hitting 100% cpu usage quite often when I stream which obviously causes a few problems. (this is only at 720p@30fps)
 
Hmmm.

How much would you like to spend (you will be able to get money for your existing parts).

What case do you have? any aftermarket cooling? etc etc etc.
 
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This Ram has XMP (there is a cheaper Teamgroup kit in black that doesn't).

May want new thermal paste to attach your AIO.

PSU will run 2way SLI of most GFX cards.
 
It's difficult to be certain the CPU is the problem without being a bit more thorough about things.

Whatever the reason, actually finding out might be quite the hassle. Then again, so is replacing the mobo, CPU and everything else.

It's true that the unlice of the Skylake IGP has much more modern codec support including full H264 support (up to 4k) fully in hardware. But often those bit never get supported well in many softwares until month / years later. So upgrading now isn't necessarily a guarantee that the new features will be taken advantage of just tomorrow. And depending on the streaming software, it may be using your discreete or IGP (one instead of the other) for doing the stream transcoding.

I've heard stories that the Haswell IGP does this (100% CPU, turns system into a dog). From other users. But if that's not the true cause then it may end up that changing your stuff for skylake-everything (or X99) isn't necessarily going to solve it properly for you.

Did you research / ask around yet amongst other streamers who use the same software / hardware combo?
 
With the main game I play and stream (wot) which is a rather cpu intensive game due to it's terrible engine. I know not only myself but a few others suffer with a 3770k.
I know a 4790k will do the job well as a fair number of people I know are using it with great results. Just looking at what is the "best choice" when it comes to upgrading atm
 
World of Tanks methinks.

Actually my gigabyte z170 gaming 3 mobo came with a WOT promo / voucher code thingy. And I'm pretty happy with it as a mobo too. So perhaps look at that one eh? A 4 year manufacturer's warranty promo is on it too.
 
5960xNvidiaGamer said:
Never heard of world of tanks, can't find it on steam.
Click to expand...

Im gonna assume your joking here. As it's one of the most popular games today.

@OP.
Before doing anything i would set up something like Afterburner to monitor/record for later CPU/GPU/RAM usage while playing and streaming.

Now World of Tanks is very heavy on the CPU it's been around awhile is (the last time i checked) still depending on core 0&1 heavily, it wasn't particularly very well multithreded.

I'd be willing to bet you may see an improvement by jigging around what runs on what cores as i have a feeling your core 0&1 are being heavily utilized by OS/WoT/Streaming.

You can set core affinity in Task Manager under the details tab, or something like Process Lasso can do it to.
 
Back on topic. I went from a 3770k to X99 5930k and haven't really noticed much improvement at all.
All the extra USB3 ports and the PCIE m2 slot is nice too but the CPU doesn't OC quite so easily as the 3770k.
 
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