I've been pondering over an upgrade to my CPU for a while now, although the I7-8700k is still a good CPU, it seems to be the one component "dragging" my system down... At least based on the benchmark tests I've performed on it.
Total War type games are the main games I tend to play at the moment and from my understanding they're a bit more heavy on the CPU side than they would be on the GPU end (That being said though, the GPU end is fine as I'm running an RTX 2070 right now which outputs more than enough performance for me.
Here's my current benchmark on the CPU: Passmark Benchmark test - As you can see, it's not really dragging my system down all that much, however, I understand that there are better CPUs out there now.
Currently I'm running a motherboard that is an LGA1151 socket; and with that in mind my consideration of upgrading to the i7-10700k would obviously mean that I need to replace my MoBo with an LGA2000 socket.
The question now is:
Is the difference between an I7-8700k and an I7-10700k worth the justification to buying a new motherboard?
The second question is:
Is switching to an AMD 3950x an actual upgrade from a perspective of gaming, compared to my current CPU?
For relevance, I'm currently not overclocking my CPU nor do I have any plans to, at least not on this current CPU. (Technically speaking I can't, as I'm running a H sku motherboard with a k sku cpu (admittedly, not the smartest decision, but I never had any plans to overclock so I didn't really think about it))
Total War type games are the main games I tend to play at the moment and from my understanding they're a bit more heavy on the CPU side than they would be on the GPU end (That being said though, the GPU end is fine as I'm running an RTX 2070 right now which outputs more than enough performance for me.
Here's my current benchmark on the CPU: Passmark Benchmark test - As you can see, it's not really dragging my system down all that much, however, I understand that there are better CPUs out there now.
Currently I'm running a motherboard that is an LGA1151 socket; and with that in mind my consideration of upgrading to the i7-10700k would obviously mean that I need to replace my MoBo with an LGA2000 socket.
The question now is:
Is the difference between an I7-8700k and an I7-10700k worth the justification to buying a new motherboard?
The second question is:
Is switching to an AMD 3950x an actual upgrade from a perspective of gaming, compared to my current CPU?
For relevance, I'm currently not overclocking my CPU nor do I have any plans to, at least not on this current CPU. (Technically speaking I can't, as I'm running a H sku motherboard with a k sku cpu (admittedly, not the smartest decision, but I never had any plans to overclock so I didn't really think about it))