Will it benefit me if I upgrade from i5 6402p (2.8 - 3.4 GHz) to i5 6600 (3.3 - 3.9 GHz)

[Hank_5]

I was thinking of selling off my 1 month old cpu(i5 5402p) to updgrade to a i5 6600, but will this upgrade be significant for gaming(overwatch ,witcher 3, gta v, doom)? I have a gtx 1070 and 16 gb of ddr4.

 

[Willdobbo]

Is the i5 5402p even a CPU? I cant find it anywhere... if its some mobile CPU you cannot upgrade it to a i5 6600 as they would most likely be different sockets and its near impossible to change the CPU on a laptop anyway

 

[Hank_5]

Is the i5 5402p even a CPU? I cant find it anywhere... if its some mobile CPU you cannot upgrade it to a i5 6600 as they would most likely be different sockets and its near impossible to change the CPU on a laptop anyway

its 6402p, its basically a i5 6400 but with a slightly higher clock.

http://ark.intel.com/products/93277/Intel-Core-i5-6402P-Processor-6M-Cache-up-to-3_40-GHz

 

[rcxtra]

Download MSI Afterburner and set it to monitor your CPU and GPU usage while gaming. If your GPU is running at 100% and the CPU is not then you won't see any improvement with a slightly faster CPU. You only have a problem if the CPU maxes out a 100% usage which then typically causes your GPU to fall below 100%.

 

[Hank_5]

Download MSI Afterburner and set it to monitor your CPU and GPU usage while gaming. If your GPU is running at 100% and the CPU is not then you won't see any improvement with a slightly faster CPU. You only have a problem if the CPU maxes out a 100% usage which then typically causes your GPU to fall below 100%.

Thanks I'll try that. But do you mean when all 4 cores are running at 100% and GPU falls bellow 100%, that the CPU is bottlenecking the GPU? and when I turn on V sync does this mean im turning my gpu to perform at 50%/half to what its suppose to perform?

I just dont want my CPU to bottle neck the GPU once I upgrade to a 1440p monitor.

 

[rcxtra]

Thanks I'll try that. But do you mean when all 4 cores are running at 100% and GPU falls bellow 100%, that the CPU is bottlenecking the GPU? and when I turn on V sync does this mean im turning my gpu to perform at 50%/half to what its suppose to perform?

I just dont want my CPU to bottle neck the GPU once I upgrade to a 1440p monitor.

Basically yes. But it's sometimes a little more nuanced than just saying all 4 CPU cores are maxed out, some games are not coded to take advantage of all cores equally. A better way to look at it would be to say that you have a bottleneck when your GPU drops below 100% and the cause is 1 or more of your CPU cores is at 100% usage when the GPU usage drops.

 

[Decends]

Thanks I'll try that. But do you mean when all 4 cores are running at 100% and GPU falls bellow 100%, that the CPU is bottlenecking the GPU? and when I turn on V sync does this mean im turning my gpu to perform at 50%/half to what its suppose to perform?

I just dont want my CPU to bottle neck the GPU once I upgrade to a 1440p monitor.

Basically yes. But it's sometimes a little more nuanced than just saying all 4 CPU cores are maxed out, some games are not coded to take advantage of all cores equally. A better way to look at it would be to say that you have a bottleneck when your GPU drops below 100% and the cause is 1 or more of your CPU cores is at 100% usage when the GPU usage drops.

* One or more of your CPU cores is CLOSE to 100% usage.

Like you said not all games are codes well, sometimes a CPU doesnt have to hit 100% usage on cores to bottleneck.

 

[Hareesh21]

It won't benefit u unless u get a full refund of Ur current cpu and buy the i5 6600