My girlfriend is having a bit of issues with her PC while streaming lately (her full time job as a streaming artist) so thought I'd get an upgraded CPU as everyone in the streaming world has pointed it out as the bottleneck due to the need for more cores/threads when streaming. Just wondering if you guys can suggest a good replacement CPU. No overclocking will be going on with this PC. Can you guys suggest a CPU to match her board?
Her specs at present...
Intel Core i5-6600K 3.9GHz (Skylake) Socket LGA1151 Processor
Gigabyte GA-H170M-D3H Intel H170 (Socket 1151) DDR4 Micro ATX Motherboard
Team Group Elite 16GB (2x8GB) DDR4 PC4-19200C16 2400MHz Dual Channel Kit - Black
Zotac GeForce GTX 1060 Mini 6144MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card
EVGA Supernova GS 550W '80 Plus Gold' Modular Power Supply
Raijintek Aidos Direct Contact CPU Cooler
256GB SSD, 1TB+2TB HDD
Any help is much appreciated.
Would prefer to not switch to AMD as I'd like to keep the board which has done us fine. Happy to pay a bit more for better quality, would an i7 8700k fit this board okay if I can actually find one? I notice on some site I was checking that it said it would only work with a Z370 chipset or something like that, not sure if that's accurate?
Her specs at present...
Intel Core i5-6600K 3.9GHz (Skylake) Socket LGA1151 Processor
Gigabyte GA-H170M-D3H Intel H170 (Socket 1151) DDR4 Micro ATX Motherboard
Team Group Elite 16GB (2x8GB) DDR4 PC4-19200C16 2400MHz Dual Channel Kit - Black
Zotac GeForce GTX 1060 Mini 6144MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card
EVGA Supernova GS 550W '80 Plus Gold' Modular Power Supply
Raijintek Aidos Direct Contact CPU Cooler
256GB SSD, 1TB+2TB HDD
Any help is much appreciated.
Would prefer to not switch to AMD as I'd like to keep the board which has done us fine. Happy to pay a bit more for better quality, would an i7 8700k fit this board okay if I can actually find one? I notice on some site I was checking that it said it would only work with a Z370 chipset or something like that, not sure if that's accurate?
So... in that case, what's a good board for the spec in the first post that can fit into a Zalman T3 Micro-ATX Case?