Hi, these are likely straightforward questions that probably won’t be too hard to answer. Here’s the deal:
I currently have a year old ASUS MB that holds an Intel i5 9600K CPU that I have overclocked by tweaking a couple BIOS settings. I’m wondering how much faster I could make my system by upgrading my CPU?
I am thinking of buying the Intel i7 9700K CPU that I would overclock too, so it will be running close to or maybe over 5.0Ghz after adjusting to maximize speed, or that’s what I expect. I’m presently running the i5 CPU at about 4.3Ghz
The big issue I have w my current setup w the i5 CPU is that it’s too slow in copying files from my internal drives to external ones, which I do fairly often. My whole system slows down a lot when copying multiple files from one drive to another, which I find annoying. However, aside from this one issue, I’m pretty satisfied w the i5’s performance.
I would like to know if I can expect a significant increase in processing power w the new i7 CPU? The difference between the two CPUs is the i5 has 6 cores while the i7 has 8 cores. That doesn’t seem like a lot but it might be more than I realize. Also, the difference in cache seems nominal at 8MBs
vs 12MBs.
My other question is whether I should expect any difficulties w swapping out the CPUs on my computer. I am expecting that I will at the least have to adjust the overclocking options in the BIOS w the new CPU. But will I have to do any further adjustments to my system w the new CPU? Also, aside from hardware, what about my Windows 10 x64 OS? Will it simply update to the new CPU w nothing for me to do?
Again, does it make good sense for me to upgrade? This new CPU would be my main birthday gift, so I want to make sure it’s worth the upgrade bc of course there are other items I would like for my birthday.
Thanks in advance for any feedback.
I currently have a year old ASUS MB that holds an Intel i5 9600K CPU that I have overclocked by tweaking a couple BIOS settings. I’m wondering how much faster I could make my system by upgrading my CPU?
I am thinking of buying the Intel i7 9700K CPU that I would overclock too, so it will be running close to or maybe over 5.0Ghz after adjusting to maximize speed, or that’s what I expect. I’m presently running the i5 CPU at about 4.3Ghz
The big issue I have w my current setup w the i5 CPU is that it’s too slow in copying files from my internal drives to external ones, which I do fairly often. My whole system slows down a lot when copying multiple files from one drive to another, which I find annoying. However, aside from this one issue, I’m pretty satisfied w the i5’s performance.
I would like to know if I can expect a significant increase in processing power w the new i7 CPU? The difference between the two CPUs is the i5 has 6 cores while the i7 has 8 cores. That doesn’t seem like a lot but it might be more than I realize. Also, the difference in cache seems nominal at 8MBs
vs 12MBs.
My other question is whether I should expect any difficulties w swapping out the CPUs on my computer. I am expecting that I will at the least have to adjust the overclocking options in the BIOS w the new CPU. But will I have to do any further adjustments to my system w the new CPU? Also, aside from hardware, what about my Windows 10 x64 OS? Will it simply update to the new CPU w nothing for me to do?
Again, does it make good sense for me to upgrade? This new CPU would be my main birthday gift, so I want to make sure it’s worth the upgrade bc of course there are other items I would like for my birthday.
Thanks in advance for any feedback.