Worth the upgrade?

[Ausy]

Hey guys, just wanted a bit of input from people more knowledgeable than myself.
Currently running:-
i5 2500K, 4.2
DDR3 1600
1080
Gaming at 2k Res. (144hz)

Considering upgrading to a Ryzen 1600, high DDR 4 (3000, 3200).

Whilst I might on occasion throw a video together or stream it's by far the lesser consideration and I don't feel restricted from them on my current rig.

My sense is that I'm being CPU bottlenecked however I'm concerned after the upgrade which would cost around £400 I'll find I wasnt as nearly bottle necked as I thought.

Thanks in advanced.

 

[Ausy]

The Core i7 7700k needs to be delidded with a decent cooler to hit 5GHZ though. The Ryzen 5 1600 with its stock cooler should get around 3.7GHZ/3.8GHZ,and the cost of a Ryzen 5 1600 and a reasonable motherboard,is still less than a Core i7 7700k without even a cheapo cooler.

Also,Coffee Lake will no doubt make more sense than SKL/KL as long as they have similar pricing structures.

Having said that OP,what games are you looking for better performance in??

What is your graphics card - its also quite possible you might be still GPU limited.

Specifically the gigabyte GTX 1080 Turbo OC edition

Overwatch (although performance is already great for this one), player unknown battlegrounds, then I've got a back catalogue of games to play thorough like Witcher, doom, GTA 5. Plus upcoming titles like destiny 2.