Hey there,
I'm in a situation where my system, from what I can tell, is consistently bottlenecked at the CPU, especially after buying a new RTX card. As a lazy man who also wouldn't mind saving a few dollars, I considered upgrading the CPU to the highest that my currently installed motherboard would support. I want to understand the tradeoffs and make sure that CPU is truly where I need to make an investment in order to get value out of my RTX card.
Option A) Upgrade CPU to something compatible with my (older) existing motherboard. I had been looking at the 7700k (link), but apparently they just sold out of everywhere so now I'm looking at the 6700k (link). Obviously bummed the 7700ks have gone scarce, if I am looking to go with this option I feel like I need to go ahead and scoop up a 6700k before Amazon sells out.
Option B) Upgrade my motherboard and rebuild around my video card. If I did this, I would still want to utilize my existing components where I could. Would there be anything besides the CPU I would need to upgrade here? Would the gains be noticeably better than if I went "Option A"?
Current specs:
Thanks for reading, and any advice!
-Jared
I'm in a situation where my system, from what I can tell, is consistently bottlenecked at the CPU, especially after buying a new RTX card. As a lazy man who also wouldn't mind saving a few dollars, I considered upgrading the CPU to the highest that my currently installed motherboard would support. I want to understand the tradeoffs and make sure that CPU is truly where I need to make an investment in order to get value out of my RTX card.
Option A) Upgrade CPU to something compatible with my (older) existing motherboard. I had been looking at the 7700k (link), but apparently they just sold out of everywhere so now I'm looking at the 6700k (link). Obviously bummed the 7700ks have gone scarce, if I am looking to go with this option I feel like I need to go ahead and scoop up a 6700k before Amazon sells out.
Option B) Upgrade my motherboard and rebuild around my video card. If I did this, I would still want to utilize my existing components where I could. Would there be anything besides the CPU I would need to upgrade here? Would the gains be noticeably better than if I went "Option A"?
Current specs:
- Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-Z170-HD3P ATX LGA1151 MotherboardCPU (link)
- Current CPU: Intel Core i5-6600K 3.5 GHz Quad-Core Processor (link)
- Memory: 16 GB of DD4 @2666HMz
- Video card: Nvidia Gefore RTX 2080
- Power Supply: 750w
- Storage: 2 SSDs and 1 HDD
- Standard cooling on case/cpu (fans)
- Happy to provide any additional specs/benchmarks here as needed.
Thanks for reading, and any advice!
-Jared