Gaming comp upgrade...I7-2700k > ?

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If all you're gonna do is game, I'd get a ryzen 5...
I know it's not as good as the 8700k but the socket will be good for a while and you can spend the money you saved on a better GPU, NVMe ssd, and that outlandishly overpriced DDR4.

If you're already thinking about x99, and all you're doing is gaming, 6850k and a used motherboard. You can do more if you want, it'll game great, and it's a high end platform.
not that the quad channel ram would do a lot for ya...
To me, the number one reason to go this route is the extra pci lanes. Takes a LOT Of money to get 40 lanes on the new platforms. Which is Why I'm considering x99 as my next system. Ryzen, Vega, and x299 have been giant let downs IMO.
The x99 platform is no more or less dead than z370. z370 is just new.

But, as others have said, the best choice for just gaming is the 8700k, It's the new kid on the block, and has the IPC.
 
Either way, even in CPU bound games you are still pushing 80% of newer CPUs.
 
Mayseffect said:
This is not really a good review either. It lacks specs on the computers tested and the procedures taken to get those stats.
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?? Go to the first page of the article for test PC specs. I don't know if you're being willfully ignorant but it's pretty common knowledge you are losing out by running stock. It may take a little work to get it stable but it's well worth it.
 
Furious_Styles said:
?? Go to the first page of the article for test PC specs. I don't know if you're being willfully ignorant but it's pretty common knowledge you are losing out by running stock. It may take a little work to get it stable but it's well worth it.
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Your hostility is unnecessary.
 
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Thats the general consensus here. That if you have an i7 thats less than 7 years old and has Hyperthreading, it generally will run GPU bound games at nearly the same speed as the fastest processors. Older i7s fall behind in some RTS games and CPU bound games (imo, destiny 2 and Witcher 3 at the moment for me), but not by much. At best, an upgrade (for pure gaming) from 2700K to 7700K is ~10-20% in some games, and almost nothing in others.
 
greyboxer said:
Thats the general consensus here. That if you have an i7 thats less than 7 years old and has Hyperthreading, it generally will run GPU bound games at nearly the same speed as the fastest processors. Older i7s fall behind in some RTS games and CPU bound games (imo, destiny 2 and Witcher 3 at the moment for me), but not by much. At best, an upgrade (for pure gaming) from 2700K to 7700K is ~10-20% in some games, and almost nothing in others.
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Exactly why i haven't considered upgrading my gaming computer over these years. And to be fair, i'm not replacing this computer outright. Just building something new. I'm most likely just going to move this 2700k into a htpc.
 
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greyboxer said:
Thats the general consensus here. That if you have an i7 thats less than 7 years old and has Hyperthreading, it generally will run GPU bound games at nearly the same speed as the fastest processors. Older i7s fall behind in some RTS games and CPU bound games (imo, destiny 2 and Witcher 3 at the moment for me), but not by much. At best, an upgrade (for pure gaming) from 2700K to 7700K is ~10-20% in some games, and almost nothing in others.
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You'll gain a bit over that with an 8700K in thread-limited games, or with a Ryzen 8-core (1700+) in extremely thread-limited games, but the general problem is that once you have 6+ threads addressable on the CPU and ~4.0GHz+ clockspeeds, you're good for ~60Hz with limited tweaking.

You want to go higher than that reliably, you gotta push IPC and clockspeeds, without going below 6 addressable CPU threads.
 
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