[SOLVED] Help with upgrading from a noob

[Joey sav]

Hey guys im looking for some advice to slowly upgrade my aging pc, currently I have a gtx 970 i5 6600k with 16gb ddr4 2666mhz ram 750w power supply this pc I bought pre-built the case is big enough to upgrade fortuntately. My question is im getting my income tax today actually and I was going to upgrade the graphics card to rtx 2060 and get a cpu later on because I heard new ones will come out soonish, but then I played anthem and it tore my pc apart and to be fair it's an intensive game with poor optimization but what would you guys recommend doing graphics card for now or the cpu and motherboard? Like I said im pretty illiterate with this stuff I know my cpu was 100% constantly with anthem and I was told it's because it's 4 cores 4 threads and it's aging now with better options available and the 970 has served me super well but I don't want to be left behind in that regard either. Any help would be super appreciated I just want to make the best decision as possible with the little money I have to spare at the moment.

 

[13thmonkey]

Check if your mobo can support a 7700k. It'll help, a bit.

 

[Joey sav]

It can it's the last cpu that is compatible would you get the gpu now and cpu later or cpu now and gpu later? From the research I did it seems like a big money sink to get a minor upgrade from any of the chips that are still supported by my motherboard thats why I would have to do one or the other unfortunately right now.

 

[13thmonkey]

You seem to be cpu constrained, so it's a choice of new mobo and cpu, or new cpu. You'll then move closer to be being GPU constrained, which is good, as you can modify settings to reduce load where CPU constraints have little you can do about it.

The question is how much does a 7700k give you over a 6600k. It's a 4.5Ghz boost vs 3.9Ghz, so that's 12%, before HT is taken into account.

Reading this beyond 4C4T there is no difference (slightly surprised).

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But that clock speed will help.

One thing, I noticed on the division that after a certain update my 4C4T cpu started to be a problem from a stability standpoint, to fix this I changed the core affinities so that the game only used 3 cores, leaving the 4th core for other purposes. This dramatically improved things, from unplayable to playable. I'd expect that the systems that they test on are quite clean, and it's often the other processes intruding that are the problem, they would have few of these, so 4C8T might not help the game, but might leave a thread or 2 available for other processes to grab when needed.

 

[Joey sav]

Kind of makes sense i've been seeing what kind of issues other people are having and nobody seems to be getting like 100fps or anything regardless of system with anthem. I was looking into the ryzen stuff , but people keep saying that there is supposedly new chips coming out soon that might be a lot better not sure if ill have money then . Anthem just seems to be a hard game to run period hopefully they can do some optimization to it to get some more performance so you'd recommend a new cpu/mobo over the new gpu right now even if I wasn't planning on anthem? Thanks for the reply by the way I appreciate it. I have overclocked the 6600k to 4.2 ghz didn't do too much for stable fps though.

 

[13thmonkey]

Try the affinity trick in task manager for the anthem process