Recently up here in Canada, Newegg slashed the prices on their 7-series CPU’s to move some stock around.
Im currently sitting on an i5-6500 but I want a little more juice out of my Z170 mobo before the full upgrade swaps, preferring to wait until IceLake drops for a system overhaul.
The i5-7600K gives some nice bumps in FPS as well as over clocking support. It it worth the upgrade for ~$200? Overclocked it’s numbers happily chase the i5-8400’s in games (healthy 20+ FPS boost) and I don’t stream or do pretty much any encoding. It’ll be opening up a heavily CPU bound 1070 Ti.
Rest of current system:
Gigabyte Z170-HD3
8GB G.Skill Ripjaws V DDR4 3200Mhz
Corsair HX1000W PSU
Bonus question: Will a stock Intel cooler handle this CPU without overclocking until I can grab a EVO 212 or Noctua U12S?
Im currently sitting on an i5-6500 but I want a little more juice out of my Z170 mobo before the full upgrade swaps, preferring to wait until IceLake drops for a system overhaul.
The i5-7600K gives some nice bumps in FPS as well as over clocking support. It it worth the upgrade for ~$200? Overclocked it’s numbers happily chase the i5-8400’s in games (healthy 20+ FPS boost) and I don’t stream or do pretty much any encoding. It’ll be opening up a heavily CPU bound 1070 Ti.
Rest of current system:
Gigabyte Z170-HD3
8GB G.Skill Ripjaws V DDR4 3200Mhz
Corsair HX1000W PSU
Bonus question: Will a stock Intel cooler handle this CPU without overclocking until I can grab a EVO 212 or Noctua U12S?