Best CPU for an ASRock Z87 Extreme6 motherboard?

[Greatstarocean]

I currently have an I5-4670k CPU and was wondering what the best CPU I could put in the 1150 socket. I was looking at the I7-4790k but wasn't sure how much of an upgrade that would be. Should I just get a new motherboard and CPU or is the Z87 still fine? Thanks for any help you can give

 

[RazerZ]

What is the rest of your system looking like and why are you planning to upgrade?

 

[Greatstarocean]

What is the rest of your system looking like and why are you planning to upgrade?

16 gigs of G.SKill ram with a GTX 980ti. I forget exactly what the psu is but it's around 850w. I'm just looking for a better cpu really. I was told that my cpu is the bottleneck for the low framerate I'm getting in some cpu intensive mmo's.

 

[RazerZ]

Which ones and how low of a frame rate? Is your 4670k overclocked?

 

[Greatstarocean]

Which ones and how low of a frame rate? Is your 4670k overclocked?

Elder Scrolls Online specifically and I'm getting less than 40 with most settings on medium. I used the ASRock tuning program to overclock it to 4.2 GHz. Sounds dumb to complain about fps in one game but it's one of the few games where sub 60 fps really bothers me. Plus it never hurts to upgrade for future games too.

 

[pranav paithane]

ur hardware is solid for any game out there........but if ur problem is low FPS then main culprit here is ur NVIDIA drivers.

1) download Display Driver uninstaller from here
www.wagnardmobile.com/DDU/?q=node/48

2)then install the latest driver......and choose custom install method and click on 'Perform clean install' checkbox.
after this ur good to go
this will 100% work take my word on that

as for ur upgrade question.....intel i7 4770k is best choice......normally i would suggest 4790k but it require z97 chipset.
u should check asrock site for compatibility for 4790k

 

[g-unit1111]

as for ur upgrade question.....intel i7 4770k is best choice......normally i would suggest 4790k but it require z97 chipset.
u should check asrock site for compatibility for 4790k

Incorrect, you can run a 4790K on Z87 with a BIOS update. But going from a 4670K to a 4790K won't be much of an upgrade. With 980TIs going for less than $400 now you're better off taking that $400 you would be spending on that CPU and adding a second GPU.

 

[pranav paithane]

as for ur upgrade question.....intel i7 4770k is best choice......normally i would suggest 4790k but it require z97 chipset.
u should check asrock site for compatibility for 4790k

Incorrect, you can run a 4790K on Z87 with a BIOS update. But going from a 4670K to a 4790K won't be much of an upgrade. With 980TIs going for less than $400 now you're better off taking that $400 you would be spending on that CPU and adding a second GPU.

thats why said to check the compatibility......i know BIOS update can solve that problem.
gtx 980ti is beast and if he does not getting even 40fps then the driver is bad.
personally i would stay away from SLI bcoz of Nvidia's bad drivers and stupid scaling issue.
single card solution is always nice.