Buy a Z170, keep what I have or get an even better CPU?

GounterMcSnounter

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Hello everyone!
I am running a GTX1060 with 6 gigabyte of vram which is overclocked around 20%
Also I have an i5-6600k , a hyper 212 evo from coolermaste as well as 16gb of ddr4 2400mhz ram and a 630W power supply.
My mobo unfortunately only is a b150m night elf from MSI and now im wondering wether its worth the work of reinstalling windows, reformating the drives and just in general put in a z170 board instead (which will also cost like 100-160$ to get one).

or should i just wait a bit and then get a ryzen 5 1600x and a decent mobo aswell as another 8 gig ram stick to increase my performance.

im doing a lot of editing and my cpu never bottlenecks me there but in some games it really does because of the low clock and only 4 cores.
Except for games like the witcher 3 and gta V or project cars , mafia 3 (games that either have insane graphics - witcher 3 - or are poorly optimized for pc - gta, mafia) i can run all my games with 60+ fps at maxed settings but now in battlefield 1 my cpu kinda bottlenecks me and even when turning some of the graphic settings lower (like shadows, which are one of the most cpu intensive effects) i still drop to the 56s or so like very very damn rarely from time to time because my cpu is a bit of a bottleneck at base clock.

also i have vsync enabled so perhaps battlefield 1 has bad vsync support - i dont know that.

Now my question: what should i do now ? i also wanna be able to play upcoming games in maxed or nearly maxed settings in the future though but dont want to spend a lot of money right now cuz im kinda broke.


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Your CPU turbo speed is 3.7Ghz on 4 cores. You can probably get it to turbo to 3.9GHz on all 4 cores by changing your BIOS settings.
You could spend a lot of money getting a better motherboard and cooler, and plenty of time installing and configuring it, and still only get another 10% faster CPU performance.
This might get you another 6FPS. If you think it is worth it, then go ahead.
Alternatively, get a i7 6700 (NON K). Your motherboard and cooler should run it OK, and you get a 30% performance increase from the hyperthreading.
Well, you most likely wouldn't have to do all that work to change MB, specially if you have Windows 10. Might have to change some drivers and that's about it.
If you want to go Ryzen way I wouldn't consider anything under R5 1600x for those jobs with 1700x being probably ideal.
 

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Your CPU turbo speed is 3.7Ghz on 4 cores. You can probably get it to turbo to 3.9GHz on all 4 cores by changing your BIOS settings.
You could spend a lot of money getting a better motherboard and cooler, and plenty of time installing and configuring it, and still only get another 10% faster CPU performance.
This might get you another 6FPS. If you think it is worth it, then go ahead.
Alternatively, get a i7 6700 (NON K). Your motherboard and cooler should run it OK, and you get a 30% performance increase from the hyperthreading.
 
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