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Upgrading from Haswell 4770k?

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I'm having cpu limit issues in battlefield and have looked into upgrading. I've seen a Kaby Lake i5 7600k, would this be beneficial at all?

Currently I'm having to overclock the 4770k and my cpu temps are hitting 93 degrees!

Playing at 3440x1440 trying to hit constant 100fps.


Gtx 1080ti
 
That i5 will be worse than what you already have you need more core and threads not less. Either wait for coffee lake or go with a ryzen 1600 or 1700.
 
Why not just turn down some of the more intensive yet very little benefit ingame settings?

I'm not familiar with BF's settings but settings such as high/ultra shadows tanks frame rate and do very little to improve the experience while playing. I don't know what settings you're using but I would bet many high/ultra settings hit the CPU needlessly.
 
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dropping the settings in bf1 doesnt help the cpu bottleneck at all, if anything it takes away strain from the gpu and puts more onto the cpu

8700k/Ryzen 1600 or 1700 are the only upgrade options from that cpu, anything less is a side/downgrade
 
greatash said:
dropping the settings in bf1 doesnt help the cpu bottleneck at all, if anything it takes away strain from the gpu and puts more onto the cpu

8700k/Ryzen 1600 or 1700 are the only upgrade options from that cpu, anything less is a side/downgrade
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Agreed.

Personally being just a gamer myself and everything else I do is casual, if I was in the market for a new PC, it would be a coffee lake i7 8700K.
 
Delid that 4770k. I previously couldn't overclock my 4790k at all due to runaway temps, but a delid later and it's much more manageable.
 
First overclock that sucker if you have not on RAM and Cache also for a little bit more extra. If performance still lack's I would wait for the coffee lake CPU's. Should be strong IPC, being able to hit solid frequency and on a game engine that can actually utilise more core's, should be a nice CPU in CPU bound situations for such tasks.
 
Thanks for the advice. I have cancelled my i5 order and now im wondering about the Ryzen 1700x. Most reviews and benchmarks im seeing are from initial release where the results vary from being right up to 7700k to below a 4790k performance. have things stabilised to a measurable margin now they have been on market for some time?
 
What RAM do you have? Size and speed. My 4770k doesn't bottleneck at all on BF1 as it happily uses all 8 threads. I hold a pretty much solid 80fps at stock and that only dips when the graphics is 100%.

The low dips between loading map is just BF1 as far as I can tell but during actual gameplay it's smooth.
 
Doogles said:
It'll be out within the next 3 months, totally viable it's not like we don't have a PC for the time being. It's either wait for 8700k or buy the 1600 which isn't something I want really.
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And three months after that zen2 will prob be here. When do you stop waiting and buy something?
 
That CPU at 4.5 should only be struggling slightly in very limited scenarios and even then, it should be perfectly playable with good frame rate. Better cooler and wait for 8700k and bios updates on new boards/next zen. It's the i5 that is maxed out in 64 player MP.
 
amigafan2003 said:
And three months after that zen2 will prob be here. When do you stop waiting and buy something?
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Because I want the 8700k, zen2 is just going to be a slight clock boost and if we are lucky a + 5% in IPC, Coffee Lake 8700k will have the same speed as a 7700k which is better than Ryzen for gaming along with extra 2 cores and 4 threads, making it so much better than AMD' poor offerings, also if it's like Vega you'll be waiting another year or two for it to land :D
 
Doogles said:
Because I want the 8700k, zen2 is just going to be a slight clock boost and if we are lucky a + 5% in IPC, Coffee Lake 8700k will have the same speed as a 7700k which is better than Ryzen for gaming along with extra 2 cores and 4 threads, making it so much better than AMD' poor offerings, also if it's like Vega you'll be waiting another year or two for it to land :D
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I think "poor offerings" is a bit harsh? From what I've seen, there's not really any significant advantage to Intel right now? Unless you're fanboying I guess?
 
GTiPUG said:
I think "poor offerings" is a bit harsh? From what I've seen, there's not really any significant advantage to Intel right now? Unless you're fanboying I guess?
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It depends what resolution you are running at, what refresh rate you are looking at and what games you play. Generally though, the best gaming performance is with the 7700k right now (excluding enthusiast), but the gap depends on the aforementioned.
 
HaroldSaxon said:
It depends what resolution you are running at, what refresh rate you are looking at and what games you play. Generally though, the best gaming performance is with the 7700k right now (excluding enthusiast), but the gap depends on the aforementioned.
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Yeah, I appreciate that, but "poor offerings"?
 
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