Should I even bother upgrading?

[Iron Panda]

I am currently running an Intel i7-5820K Haswell-E 6-Core 3.3 GHz LGA 2011-v3 processor. My end goal is to get more FPS out of my processor intensive games, such as Arma 3. Would it be worth it to upgrade to the Intel i7-7700K Kaby Lake Quad-Core 4.2 GHz LGA 1151 chip? Here is my current setup:

ASUS X99-A LGA 2011-v3 Intel X99 SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX Intel Motherboard
Intel Core i7-5820K Haswell-E 6-Core 3.3 GHz LGA 2011-v3
G.SKILL Ripjaws 4 Series 16GB (4 x 4GB) 288-Pin DDR4 SDRAM DDR4 3000 (PC4 24000)
EVGA GeForce GTX 980 04G-P4-2983-KR 4GB SC GAMING w/ACX 2.0
SAMSUNG 840 EVO MZ-7TE250BW 2.5" 250GB SATA 6Gb/s (OS)
SAMSUNG 850 EVO 2.5" 500GB SATA III (Games)
Western Digital Black WD1001FALS 1TB 7200 RPM (Storage)

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Thanks for the time guys and gals.

Iron Panda

 

[bboiprfsr]

you want to upgrade your cpu/motherboard just to gain more FPS on a particular video game? good april's fools joke.

but on a serious note, you have a 5th gen CPU. we're on the 7th gen - no need to upgrade. some games just have high demands on hardware and are poorly optimized compared to console ports. Just tweak your settings and do whatever you can to get high FPS. peace

 

[Iron Panda]

you want to upgrade your entire setup just to gain more FPS on a particular video game? good april's fools joke.

I'm glad you find it amusing.

 

[dudeman509]

ARMA likes fast, single cores. So you'd be fine with say, an i3-7100. But it still runs like crap on almost anything.

Save your money. Not worth jumping from a 6-core CPU to a 4-core for one game.

 

[Iron Panda]

ARMA likes fast, single cores. So you'd be fine with say, an i3-7100. But it still runs like crap on almost anything.

Save your money. Not worth jumping from a 6-core CPU to a 4-core for one game.

Appreciate the advice. I am a bit ignorant to the CPU side of the house.

 

[Gon Freecss]

Haswell is only 6% slower than Skylake clock-for-clock in CPU benchmarks. And as we all know, Kaby Lake offers 0% IPC improvements over Skylake.

I don't think you should 'upgrade' to Kaby Lake.

 

[Iron Panda]

Haswell is only 6% slower than Skylake clock-for-clock in CPU benchmarks. And as we all know, Kaby Lake offers 0% IPC improvements over Skylake.

I don't think you should 'upgrade' to Kaby Lake.

Gotcha, good information. Thanks for the help. I will stick with what I have and tweak it a bit.

 

[dudeman509]

Haswell is only 6% slower than Skylake clock-for-clock in CPU benchmarks. And as we all know, Kaby Lake offers 0% IPC improvements over Skylake.

I don't think you should 'upgrade' to Kaby Lake.

Gotcha, good information. Thanks for the help. I will stick with what I have and tweak it a bit.

If you are running at stock speed still, an overclock past your 3.6 turbo boost speed may help with games that bottleneck with the relatively low clockspeed.