New CPU, MB and RAM Upgrade, please advise

[marcd89]

Hello All,

Returning again to seek more helpful knowledge from the community.

I'm currently seeing huge bottlenecks with my I5-4570. Massive stutters when all 4 cores hit 100%. It has done well for me the last 4 years and if I continued playing my usual games I'd have no need for an upgrade but it appears 4c/4t simply won't cut it for much longer. BF1 is smooth as butter until all cores max out, Fallout 4 is the same. Older games like The Witcher 3 run brilliantly on current system, unless it's in the middle of the city where CPU get's pegged again.

I'll be needing a new MB, CPU and RAM since the CPU options all require a different MB and I have DDR3 ram.

What I'd like to achieve here is a GPU bottleneck, in the sense that in 1 or 2 years it will be my 1060 6GB needing upgraded and my CPU will be just as good. I don't mind changing GPUs often but I'd rather a CPU last a good few years since everyone seems to say it gets upgraded the least.

I'm not picky about teams here (AMD or Intel), I simply want the want the CPU that will do me best. I intend to remain 1080p 60fps for the foreseeable future. In FPS games I might uncap fps but I have no interest at 1440p monitors etc.

Here are the PCPartPickers I currently have looked at, I have an aftermarket cooler so please ignore the combatability issue of no cooler.

8700k + MB and RAM
£560
https://uk.pcpartpicker.com/list/ZnHWZR

8700 + MB and RAM
£515
https://uk.pcpartpicker.com/list/TZX6Cy

8600k + MB and RAM
£467
https://uk.pcpartpicker.com/list/VPHC7h

8400 + MB and RAM
£402
https://uk.pcpartpicker.com/list/s8jHXH

1800x + MB and RAM
£525
https://uk.pcpartpicker.com/list/Zq3wP3

1700x + MB and RAM
£496
https://uk.pcpartpicker.com/list/GkLDHN

1700 + MB and RAM
£487
https://uk.pcpartpicker.com/list/sRjpTH

1600x + MB and RAM
£420
https://uk.pcpartpicker.com/list/6yYtVY

1600 + MB and RAM
£401
https://uk.pcpartpicker.com/list/kPbGCy

Other PC Components
Cooler: BeQuiet Pure Rock
256GB Crucial Mx100 SSD (boot drive),
500GB HDD
GPU: MSI 1060 6GB
PSU: Coolermaster 650W 90 Plus Gold

I appreicate any and all feedback on this.

Thank you

P.S. Budget isn't really more than the 8700K (under £600 preferably). I'd like my budget to reflect my build. Also the RAM isn't finalised, I have allowed £30/£40 for the current market.

 

[jr9]

You could do just fine with a 8600k paired with the 1060 GTX. It's an amazing CPU and would not even bottleneck a GTX 1080. The 1060 card would max out with no problem at all. 8700k is for if you want absolute max performance and want to spend a premium. The 8600k completely trumps all Ryzen processors in gaming as well. Anything over 8700k would be overkill.

Go for the 8600k, or the 8700k if you want bleeding edge performance.