I'm currently using an i7-4770k and need to get a CPU with more oomph, is upgrading to an i7-6700k worth it or should I wait for the next generation of Intel processors?
>>51954854
Install gentoo
we don't know what your needs are so we can't answer
Stick with haswell. Skylake was a flop.
>>51954854
Don't bother upgrading to Skylake. It's like, a 10% improvement at most over Haswell in even the best scenarios.
Processors have been starting to get diminishing returns. An i7-4770k should work perfectly fine for a few more generations.
>>51954897
>>51954977
Thanks
>>51954878
Gaming
>>51954865
Whats wrong with Genwan?
>>51955055
>need to get a CPU with more oomph
>for Gaming
What games are struggling with a 4770k?
>>51955359
WoW + my PC isnt solely for gaming (I have some Office programs + Chrome tabs open) + I plan on Streaming and I have 2 (plan on getting a 3rd) monitor.
>>51955406
Is this a joke?
I don't find this funny at all.
>>51955413
Well he kinda needs a solid CPU if he wants to stream in hq.
>>51955406
You don't need a new cpu. What are your pc specs
>>51955406
get a 5820 if you want to stream, your 4770 is overkill for wow.
Or get a capture card/use shadow play.
>>51955413
Are you telling me my processor can handle all of that shit?
>>51955568
Going to speccy gimme a sec
>>51955597
Doesnt streaming eat a lot of CPU power?
>>51954854
6700k is a waste of time. if you're gonna bother upgrading then may as well do it right and get an octacore or at least hexacore processor. otherwise you're just doing a glorified sidegrade
>>51955568
here
>>51957377
yep seems like it.
>>51957403
>gtx 970
>asking if an i7 4770k is enough for gaming
Looks about right, kinda surprised you don't have 2 3.5gb in SLI.
>>51957429
I only play WoW mostly, fucking 970 only has like 76% load when my FPS starts to dip below 60 FPS (hence I concluded my CPU is the bottleneck at high-ultra settings)
Also I have conflicting info about SLI on WoW, majority said SLI doesnt work but some people say it does. Going to be safe and assume SLI dont work with WoW.
>need a CPU with more oomph
Lol faggot you just play video games. You don't need shit. A 2500k is still more than enough for the foreseeable future. Skyshit is a 5% improvement over Haslel for double the price.
If you actually needed more CPU power you would know what to get.
>>51957520
>le poorfag face
>>51954854
>"upgrading" to skylake
>>51955055
>gaming
You're a fucking idiot.
God I hate this board.
>>51957590
Whatever you say poorfag idiot.
>>51957467
No matter what cpu you slap there, WoW WILL dip below 60 fps and there is nothing what you can do about it. You're playing some ancient fucking with ancient optimization that slams the first thread and calls it a day. SLI won't do jackshit neither will upgrading your cpu.
You already have a completely fucking pointless CPU for gaming and you fucked up big time by investing more on the CPU instead of just buying a 4690k and investing the rest on a beefier GPU.
Now go away.
>>51957362
>Doesnt streaming eat a lot of CPU power?
Depends on your settings. Do you want to stream 4k 60fps ? 1080p60 ? Or is 720p30 good enough for you ?
Just overclock your CPU a bit, it can handle that shit no problem. Streaming 1080p60 5mbps eats roughly 50% of a 4690k at 4Ghz.
>>51957713
let's play 'Guess wheres the bottleneck'
>>51957855
>bottleneck
I have yet to see someone who uses this term knowing anything about tech.
>>51957809
i thought shadowplay used gpu and was able to stream with barely any performance hit?
>>51957875
>I have yet to see someone who uses this term knowing anything about tech.
You don't understand what you're talking about.
>>51958064
Says the idiot who thinks a 2500k isn't more than anything for modern gaming.
You're an idiot and you don't know absolutely fucking nothing you're bullshitting about. Blow it out your ass.
>>51958265
The 2500k may not hit 100% but it's still a bottleneck. Why else would a 4770k outperform it?
Not that guy btw.
I upgraded from an i5 750 at 4.2ghz to a stock i5 4460 and I have noticed some very nice improvements in performance. Gained about 10-15fps average in most games.
>>51955055
>>51954854
>Upgrading to 6700k from 4770k just for GAMING
What a fucking retard, Intel is blessed to be serving such retards
>>51957403
You bought a 970 and a 840 EVO. That says it all.
You do not need Skylake. And clean your fucking PC if that 44C is your idle temps.
>>51957467
WoW, like Runescape, are shit optimized games bloated by legacy code. Quit playing shit games.
Another example of how retarded intel buttslaves are
This retard is considering to get a 360$ upgrade because a 200 year old game isn't working ideally
Laugh at this retard
What a fucking idiot, doesn't even look at benchmarks and just assumes intel's new shitty line of CPUs is actually significantly improving on anything, let alone in gaming.
>>51954854
If it wasn't JUST gaming and basic stuff, I would say go for it. If you're going to be rendering shit (video or 3D) or doing development of real-time stuff (games, etc), I would say upgrade.
Otherwise the i7 and DDR3 you have now is going to be fine for 5+ years.
>>51958445
>>51958460
You forgot how he has to spend another 100 dollars for the motherboard and another 100 for the memory since Skylake is LGA 1151 and not 1150. But of course since he's retarded he's got to have the 200 dollar mobo and all 64GB of RAM in there.
>>51958348
Not anything that performs a bit worse than something else is a bottleneck you stupid fucking idiot
>>51954897
The Skylake i7 are sold out pretty much anywhere online, and the places it isn't are gouging. That's far from being a flop.
>>51958483
These is actualy money someone (his mom) worked on being spent on literally nothing, and it happens so much
Imagine how productive humanity would be without retards like this
>>51957809
just fucking overclock it OP. you bought a K series CPU and you're running it at 3.5 ghz.
you really do have more money than brains.
>>51957730
all of valve's OG source engine games in a nutshell (2010 and before).
TF2 has incredibly shitty processor optimization that makes it almost UNPLAYABLE on AMD processors because of how dependent the game is on single-thread performance. you will drop FPS like crazy when heavy particles/lots of shit is going on unless you use a total potato configuration to squeeze the ever living shit out of the games performance, to essentially create a large buffer of FPS so that the drops aren't as huge.
>>51957362
>Are you telling me my processor can handle all of that shit?
My 2500k can handle all of that shit. And then some.
>>51958265
>>51958348
>some fag thinks a 2500k is bottlenecking the card
>he is telling others that they don't know anything
LMAO @ UR LIFE.
You shouldn't even upgrade from Sandy bridge i5s as far as gaming is concerned. That is if you care about money/value.
>>51958490
Then where's the bottleneck if improving the processor helps
>>51959888
You stupid fucking idiot, not everytthing is a bottleneck
Literally wut?
The difference between those CPUs is so small that there is no difference. Just overclock your 4770k.
>>51959888
A Nehalem trying to run an AAA 2015 game, now that's a bottleneck. What anon posted shows there's no bottleneck, that's a fucking journo buzzword. All that shows are minor improvements to the FPS going from Sandy Bridge, Ivy Bridge, Haswell, Haswell refresh to Skylake.
>2500k
>bottlenecking any single card
>>51957809
you can even set up obs to use the integrated grafics of the cpu to encode, resulting in 0% stress on the cpu, downside is it works only up to a certain quality
also
>streaming WoW, ded gaem
>>51959937
>A Nehalem trying to run an AAA 2015 game, now that's a bottleneck
Nahalem still plays modern games perfectly fine.
>>51959960
Got FO4 running at 60 FPS?
>>51959982
>FO4
I don't play Bethesda games but from what I've heard, tons of people have performance issues with that games including people with newer hardware.
>>51959954
It also results in mad bitchrunching because GPU encoders are shit.
>>51960011
You stated modern games run just fine. I'm talking about AAA modern games here. If you haven't tried it on a Nehalem, then there's no point in claiming AAA will run on it at 60 FPS.
How about Witcher 3? Tried that on a Nehalem CPU? There's GTA V and Just Cause 3 as well. How well would those run?
>>51959897
Elaborate.
>>51959937
I get what you're saying, but my point is that the cpu will always hold the gpu back no matter how much %load it it's on, even if the gpu is the main bottleneck at 100% load, or will still perform better with a better cpu.
Now if upgrading a part improves performance, how is that not a bottleneck that's been reduced?
>>51960028
>GTA V
Considering that this runs fine on a Q9400, I'd say it probably runs fine on a Nehalem as well.
>>51960040
SLIGHTLY WORSE HARDWARE PERFORMING SLIGHTLY WORSE ISN'T A BOTTLENECK
NOT EVERY DIFFERENCE IN PERFORMANCE SHOWS A BOTTLENECK
>>51960040
>my point is that the cpu will always hold the gpu back
Not when it comes to Intel with its strong single performance per core. OP should just overclock.
Also Crysis 3 is shit to use as a benchmark.
>>51960040
>Now if upgrading a part improves performance, how is that not a bottleneck that's been reduced?
Upgrading a part means just that, it's an upgrade, not that a bottleneck has been eliminated. Get your terms straightened out.
>>51957362
Cheezus Christ man...
Look, even my 8350 did fine streaming. It's all about your encoding settings. Using OBS, I was able to stream most anything at max settings on the "veryfast" or "faster" encoding setting (slower the setting, the better the quality, at the cost of CPU resources. No CPU can reliably run "slow" or better, and game reliably). "Veryfast" (default) is usually just fine, with little to no artefacting, depending on movement, and "faster" is usually the point of rapidly diminishing returns. Avoid superfast and ultrafast, unless you want terrible encoding artifacts.
You don't want to stream anything above 720p, btw, because even if your upstream is fast enough, it doesn't mean your viewers' connection is. The only thing I had even minor issues with was modded Skyrim, and it was still very playable (around 45fps with an 8350 @ 4.7ghz, and 290 oc'd and underwater).
2500k mustard race.
>>51954854
Are you retarded?
>>51960335
>SLi 970's
Jesus christ, anon.
>>51960335
>SLI 970s
You got memed on
>2500k bottlenecks a single graphics card
anon just OC that shit you fucking mong.
Who still rocking 920 in here?
>>51960387
>>51960430
>>51960443
>>51960443
Are you saying a 5 year old processor wouldnt bottleneck one of the fastest GPU available right now (GTX 980 Ti)?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_Tick-Tock
Your upgrade is either Cannonlake(Tick) 10nm
Or the next-gen Tock from Intel
>>51960575
If you overclock it?, hell yes thats what im saying.
>but you can overclock new cpus too!
True, but why bother if you have enough power for it to be a non issue?
Absolutley not. Overclock instead
Is overclocking worth it? I dont want my cpu dying early
