I5-6600K vs I5-3470 for a gaming PC

[Kryas]

I have recently upgraded my gpu to a Gtx 970 hoping to get in on that sweet fallout 4 action. But to no avail. In some areas I get below 40 fps even on low! My processor is the 3470 and my thinking is that it's holding it back. Am I correct in thinking this? If I upgrade to the 6600k will I be getting a significant performance boost?

 

[DrGreen]

http://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu.php?cpu=Intel+Core+i5-3470+%40+3.20GHz
https://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu.php?cpu=Intel+Core+i5-6600K+%40+3.50GHz&id=2570

Comparing the two, the 6600k is only slightly stronger and wouldn't be worth upgrading to.

How much RAM is in your system?

 

[Supernova1138]

Fallout 4 is badly optimized, and there are some spots in the game where you will dip into the 40s pretty much regardless of what CPU you have. I ran into the same problems with my 6600k, so moving to another i5 isn't the answer. The game does show decent gains going from an i5 to an i7 in benchmarks, making it one of the few titles to really benefit from hyperthreading, but even then framerate drops have been reported with i7 systems as well.

In terms of improving performance, make sure God Rays are set to low or off, the higher settings kill performance. Dropping shadow quality sometimes also helps, especially since the higher presets seem to draw a ton of shadows you can't actually see.

 

[iam2thecrowe]

Forget hardware for a second, everyone thinks they can just set everything to ultra and everything will be fine and dandy with 60fps solid. Also, when reading/comparing to benchmarks your getting a look at the average fps in a fixed scenario. At least half the time your going to be below that average. Tweak your settings, turn off godrays, reduce AA.