- May 22, 2018
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Hey Guys:
I built my first gaming PC about a year ago, and have been loving it. My initial build consisted of a GTX 1060, i5 6500, Asus Maximus VIII Hero mobo, 16 GB of DDR4 ram, 850 Samsung Evo SSD, and a Supernova G3 650 W PSU. This setup worked beautifully for 1080p and 60hz, which all I had intended on doing at the time. However, as I started to notice my friends gaming at 1440p and 144hz, of course I was interested, and before I knew it I had a 2k 144hz monitor and purchased a GTX 1080 Founders Edition I found for a unbelievable price at a local PC store. The new GPU is pushing good frame rates at 1440p for a lot of games, even holding 144 steadily for well-optimized games like Overwarch and Doom. In more CPU intensive games however, I am of course experiencing some bottlenecking. For example, I play Divinty 2 co-op with a buddy who has a GTX 1080 paired with a i7 8700k, and we recently compared performance. He gets a steady 144 frames constantly- reguardless of what is happening on screen. I usually get 100-120 in most areas, but combat kills my frame rate, dropping all the way to 50ish range occasionally in more intense battles. I also notice big swings in frame rate when explosions or sudden animations begin in battle, and I know this is generally indicative of a CPU bottleneck. Sorry for the long post, but I guess I’m asking if an upgrade to an i7 7700k would help me out in CPU intensive games significantly enough to justify the upgrade. Would I get anywhere near what my buddy is getting from his 8700k? I’d like to avoid that CPU, because I don’t want to have to get a new mobo. My current mobo bios has been updated and I believe can take the 7700k. Thanks in advance for the answers.
I built my first gaming PC about a year ago, and have been loving it. My initial build consisted of a GTX 1060, i5 6500, Asus Maximus VIII Hero mobo, 16 GB of DDR4 ram, 850 Samsung Evo SSD, and a Supernova G3 650 W PSU. This setup worked beautifully for 1080p and 60hz, which all I had intended on doing at the time. However, as I started to notice my friends gaming at 1440p and 144hz, of course I was interested, and before I knew it I had a 2k 144hz monitor and purchased a GTX 1080 Founders Edition I found for a unbelievable price at a local PC store. The new GPU is pushing good frame rates at 1440p for a lot of games, even holding 144 steadily for well-optimized games like Overwarch and Doom. In more CPU intensive games however, I am of course experiencing some bottlenecking. For example, I play Divinty 2 co-op with a buddy who has a GTX 1080 paired with a i7 8700k, and we recently compared performance. He gets a steady 144 frames constantly- reguardless of what is happening on screen. I usually get 100-120 in most areas, but combat kills my frame rate, dropping all the way to 50ish range occasionally in more intense battles. I also notice big swings in frame rate when explosions or sudden animations begin in battle, and I know this is generally indicative of a CPU bottleneck. Sorry for the long post, but I guess I’m asking if an upgrade to an i7 7700k would help me out in CPU intensive games significantly enough to justify the upgrade. Would I get anywhere near what my buddy is getting from his 8700k? I’d like to avoid that CPU, because I don’t want to have to get a new mobo. My current mobo bios has been updated and I believe can take the 7700k. Thanks in advance for the answers.
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