Hey there! My 3080 ti just arrived. I'm playing games on 1440p 144 hz and my i5 9400f is being smashed in a lot of games, reaching higher temps than the gpu most of the time. Some games I can't even play over medium settings (Kingdom come for example). I'm looking to buy a new board + cpu and was wondering what would a good enough CPU for it be. If a 5950x is the only viable thing I'll go for it, but if I can buy something cheaper for only a few fps difference I will do so. My options are to buy something up to 600/700$ total (that includes MOBO, ram + a new CPU) now, or save up for a few months and go for a 5950x + equivalent ram/mobo. What do you guys think I should do? Is a 5950x overkill? Thanks!
Other things I do other than gaming:
Software development including occasional game development
Messing with console emulators
Occasional video/3d modeling
Virtual machines for testing out my software on different operating systems (hence the 32 gb ram)
I don't know how much I would benefit from going for a top of the CPU, but I can say that going from i5 2500k to i5 9400f was a massive jump. Only issue I have with my current pc as far as work goes is that sometimes it stutters. I don't know why is that honestly...
Current PC specs:
i5 9400f
rtx 3080 ti
hyperx 2666 mhz 2x16gb ram
gigabyte h310m ds 2.0
1440p monitor
Other things I do other than gaming:
Software development including occasional game development
Messing with console emulators
Occasional video/3d modeling
Virtual machines for testing out my software on different operating systems (hence the 32 gb ram)
I don't know how much I would benefit from going for a top of the CPU, but I can say that going from i5 2500k to i5 9400f was a massive jump. Only issue I have with my current pc as far as work goes is that sometimes it stutters. I don't know why is that honestly...
Current PC specs:
i5 9400f
rtx 3080 ti
hyperx 2666 mhz 2x16gb ram
gigabyte h310m ds 2.0
1440p monitor