My current system has a stock 9700k cooled with a Corsair h115i water cooler, on an Aorus Elite Z390 board, 64gb corsair ddr4 3200 cl16 ram in 4 slots, 1000w corsair PSU, and 2 x 1tb M2 SSDs, and 2 high capacity hard drives, in a Define R6 case, and a newly purchased Aorus 3070ti.
I use the system for a mix of what seem to be CPU bound sim / strategy games (cities skylines, transport fever 2), likely to play red dead 2 at some point (just haven't got around to it yet!) and doing photography editing (photoshop plus plug ins, lightroom, few other photo slanted graphics packages) , and starting to move into video editing (Davinci Resolve r17 full version). Also for day to day work.
Frame rates on my games aren't great in late game set ups with high populations - think both these games are known for performance problems. Obviously my 3070ti has made no difference - wasn't really expecting it to, but hey, you can live in hope! 😂
Given a 9900k (or a 9900kf???) can be bought for around £300, would this be a worthwhile way to get a bit of boosted performance for CPU bound tasks and moving into video production??
Or would I be better off doing something else?? If so, what?
I use the system for a mix of what seem to be CPU bound sim / strategy games (cities skylines, transport fever 2), likely to play red dead 2 at some point (just haven't got around to it yet!) and doing photography editing (photoshop plus plug ins, lightroom, few other photo slanted graphics packages) , and starting to move into video editing (Davinci Resolve r17 full version). Also for day to day work.
Frame rates on my games aren't great in late game set ups with high populations - think both these games are known for performance problems. Obviously my 3070ti has made no difference - wasn't really expecting it to, but hey, you can live in hope! 😂
Given a 9900k (or a 9900kf???) can be bought for around £300, would this be a worthwhile way to get a bit of boosted performance for CPU bound tasks and moving into video production??
Or would I be better off doing something else?? If so, what?
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