worth upgrading from 6700?

[faceman123]

Hey folks, was thinking about upgrading the little brothers setup

he's specs are

i7 6700 ( NON K )
GTX 1080 PALIT PREMIUM GAMEROCK
16GB 3200MHZ RAM CORSAIR VENG
Z170 GAMING PRO ASUS

he's thinking about upgrading his CPU to 6700k/7700k for gaming is there any point? is there any benefit for gaming/ light editing/streaming to go to ryzen?

 

[harvey.l12]

I wouldn't think you would need to upgrade, I would save your money.

My PC is i7-4790K, GTX970 and 16GB 2333MHz RAM and I use Premiere and Vegas for editing fine with a bit of after affects.

No issues when gaming or streaming... so I would say wait for the generation after the 7700K.

 

[harvey.l12]

Are you wanting to move to Ryzen? or stay with Intel? You make reference to both...

 

[groovesection]

I would say no, the Intel ME exploit has meant Intel has trimmed performance under the guise of 'security' and the performance increase from 6700 to 6700k will be absolutley negligable. (especially in gaming)
Save yourself (and him) some money, it's a pointless upgrade (IMHO)

 

[harvey.l12]

Another good point above ^^ Intel might properly get the performance right in the next version of CPU's after they know about the exploit.

 

[faceman123]

I wouldn't think you would need to upgrade, I would save your money.

My PC is i7-4790K, GTX970 and 16GB 2333MHz RAM and I use Premiere and Vegas for editing fine with a bit of after affects.

No issues when gaming or streaming... so I would say wait for the generation after the 7700K.

I would say no, the Intel ME exploit has meant Intel has trimmed performance under the guise of 'security' and the performance increase from 6700 to 6700k will be absolutley negligable. (especially in gaming)
Save yourself (and him) some money, it's a pointless upgrade (IMHO)

Another good point above ^^ Intel might properly get the performance right in the next version of CPU's after they know about the exploit.

Cheers peeps. will just keep It for him, I've changed all cores to 4ghz boost, I assume this should help a little.

 

[harvey.l12]

Cheers peeps. will just keep It for him, I've changed all cores to 4ghz boost, I assume this should help a little.

I thought it easnt a K series?

 

[yoyo59]

my bro has the i7 6700 & hes going to upgrade to the 6700k imo its worth it if you need the extra frequency he plays a lot of ESO so needs high single performance & will not cost him much at all to upgrade

 

[faceman123]

I thought it easnt a K series?

Yeah you can change all cores to max boost, it's not worth it we've decided to allocate funds to new platform in 2020, performs near enough a ryzen 5 1500x so should be okay for two years~

 

[AyeAyeAhoy!]

No, no need!!

 

[pandem0nium]

You may be able to flash a non-k overclock bios and get pretty much the same thing without spending money.

 

[Doogles]

I wouldn't bother but if you see a 7700k on the MM it might be worth getting to overclock, only if it's under £200 mind.

 

[groovesection]

my bro has the i7 6700 & hes going to upgrade to the 6700k imo its worth it if you need the extra frequency he plays a lot of ESO so needs high single performance & will not cost him much at all to upgrade

Late reply, but the 6700 does 4ghz on a single core under turbo mode anyway
1 core = 4ghz
2 cores = 3.8ghz
3 cores = 3.6ghz
4 cores = 3.4ghz (stock speed)

 

[~>Dg<~]

waste of money. just enjoy the games.

 

[FlyingScotsman]

Total waste mate, stay with what you got.

 

[mattyfez]

It's a No from me, not worth it at all.

Work out the extra clock speed as a percentage, remembering that's raw cpu speed percentage, not percentage more fps in games (that will be lower).

Then look at the cost of the upgrade.. The maths doesn't make sense.