Mayseffect
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Hello all.
I'm finally looking to upgrade my gaming system to a updated CPU and mobo setup. I'm realizing the next era of rendering software and game engines are coming upon us, and after almost half a decade with the sandy bridge cpu i'm noticing this system is starting to show signs of it's age with some of the latest games. In comparison to some of my AMD ryzen computers at work, it's clear my gaming computer is not running as fast in a lot of areas.
I made a small attempt of updating the latest mobo chipset for the LGA1155 a year ago and it helped minimally. Along with a 2 year old standard 295x2 gpu, games are on the border of acceptable fps at 2560 at high settings on top name games. I just recently got AMD crimson running well with my freesync monitor so i'm actually pretty happy with the smooth 60-75fps at 75hz on most games. But some signs of frame dropping is still noticeable in heavily populated areas in games.
SSD's are up to date and the ram is pegged at 16gb which hasn't been a issue for this system (i've tried more ram with no real improvements.)
As of now i think i've boiled it down to 2 potential choices, but the open options and questions are this. Should i also make a change in gpu's? And what does the future hold for the next generation of CPU's? I don't feel i have gotten the most out of the 295x2 and i think it should work with the latest amd drivers and a new freesync 4k monitor. I've also considered adding a second 295x2 but considering how power hungry these things are i'm not sure it's wise to continue with this card. The 1080Ti seems to be the industry leader, but i'm not sold on the price to performance on Nvidia so the other option would be a Vega 64.
As of now here is what i have in mind.
i7-5820k or i7 7820x > 32gb ram > 32" 4k freesync. (currently using a 2560 freesync)
As of late, there has been a lot of talk of the i7 skylake cpu's severely overheating from a plethora of reasons. On top of this, some design issues with compatible mobo's.
I've heard nothing but good things about the 5820k, the 22nm form factor seems to be more ideal than the even tighter skylake 14nm design. many of the features i care about are available on both cpu's (28 lane pciE, 6+ cores, 64+gb mem)
But the other SMALL dilemma is i want to be able to use this for another 6+ years. The 5820k is already a few years old and at the end of its "life cycle". I got the 2700k newly released and i can easily say i've gotten every single penny out of it and it's still running relatively strong.
So is the skylake worth the extra money?
I'm finally looking to upgrade my gaming system to a updated CPU and mobo setup. I'm realizing the next era of rendering software and game engines are coming upon us, and after almost half a decade with the sandy bridge cpu i'm noticing this system is starting to show signs of it's age with some of the latest games. In comparison to some of my AMD ryzen computers at work, it's clear my gaming computer is not running as fast in a lot of areas.
I made a small attempt of updating the latest mobo chipset for the LGA1155 a year ago and it helped minimally. Along with a 2 year old standard 295x2 gpu, games are on the border of acceptable fps at 2560 at high settings on top name games. I just recently got AMD crimson running well with my freesync monitor so i'm actually pretty happy with the smooth 60-75fps at 75hz on most games. But some signs of frame dropping is still noticeable in heavily populated areas in games.
SSD's are up to date and the ram is pegged at 16gb which hasn't been a issue for this system (i've tried more ram with no real improvements.)
As of now i think i've boiled it down to 2 potential choices, but the open options and questions are this. Should i also make a change in gpu's? And what does the future hold for the next generation of CPU's? I don't feel i have gotten the most out of the 295x2 and i think it should work with the latest amd drivers and a new freesync 4k monitor. I've also considered adding a second 295x2 but considering how power hungry these things are i'm not sure it's wise to continue with this card. The 1080Ti seems to be the industry leader, but i'm not sold on the price to performance on Nvidia so the other option would be a Vega 64.
As of now here is what i have in mind.
i7-5820k or i7 7820x > 32gb ram > 32" 4k freesync. (currently using a 2560 freesync)
As of late, there has been a lot of talk of the i7 skylake cpu's severely overheating from a plethora of reasons. On top of this, some design issues with compatible mobo's.
I've heard nothing but good things about the 5820k, the 22nm form factor seems to be more ideal than the even tighter skylake 14nm design. many of the features i care about are available on both cpu's (28 lane pciE, 6+ cores, 64+gb mem)
But the other SMALL dilemma is i want to be able to use this for another 6+ years. The 5820k is already a few years old and at the end of its "life cycle". I got the 2700k newly released and i can easily say i've gotten every single penny out of it and it's still running relatively strong.
So is the skylake worth the extra money?
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