Personal computing discussed
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Jeff Kampman wrote:Whether you'll really notice a difference from a CPU upgrade depends on what resolution and settings you like to play games at. If you run your GTX 970 at 1920x1080 with medium to high settings (prioritizing high refresh rates) you will notice the largest difference from a CPU upgrade. If you play on high to ultra settings (prioritizing visual quality), you may not notice as big of a difference from CPU to CPU unless you have a really powerful graphics card like a GTX 1080 to feed. Similarly, if you play at 2560x1440 or 4K using higher detail settings, you shift more and more load to the graphics card and the CPU will have less of an influence on frame times, so upgrade money would be better spent on a more powerful graphics card.
The Core i7-3770K is still quite a competent CPU for gaming with a powerful graphics card at higher resolutions, but it's really starting to show its age when paired with powerful graphics cards and modern titles at 1920x1080. An overclock will likely buy some extra life from the chip, but it can't close the gap with Intel's latest CPUs entirely. Whether you'll notice a difference from going to a 7700K depends on whether you're upgrading your graphics card at the same time. A GTX 970 at 1920x1080 likely isn't stressing the CPU enough to matter at reasonable settings, while a GTX 1070 or GTX 1080 certainly will.
toastie wrote:I have a 3770K in a hackintosh that I'm giving to my daughter. I'm replacing it with a Ryzen 1600. For single threads, I figure it will be about the same, maybe a bit slower, but the extra cores should help with transcoding, which I do a lot of.
Concupiscence wrote:toastie wrote:I have a 3770K in a hackintosh that I'm giving to my daughter. I'm replacing it with a Ryzen 1600. For single threads, I figure it will be about the same, maybe a bit slower, but the extra cores should help with transcoding, which I do a lot of.
I'd estimate your per-clock will see a nudge upward - between the newer design and abundance of cache it won't be dramatic, but enough for the 1600 (3.2 / 3.6 Turbo) to maintain rough parity with the 3770K (3.5 / 3.9 Turbo). As you say, transcoding will be a different story; I'd be shocked if you don't realize gains of 50+% with a good encoder.
toastie wrote:Concupiscence wrote:toastie wrote:I have a 3770K in a hackintosh that I'm giving to my daughter. I'm replacing it with a Ryzen 1600. For single threads, I figure it will be about the same, maybe a bit slower, but the extra cores should help with transcoding, which I do a lot of.
I'd estimate your per-clock will see a nudge upward - between the newer design and abundance of cache it won't be dramatic, but enough for the 1600 (3.2 / 3.6 Turbo) to maintain rough parity with the 3770K (3.5 / 3.9 Turbo). As you say, transcoding will be a different story; I'd be shocked if you don't realize gains of 50+% with a good encoder.
Ah, thanks for the info. While I never tried it with the 3770K - I know, why get an unlocked processor if you never overclock - I'm willing to try a bit of overclocking with the 1600.
toastie wrote:why get an unlocked processor if you never overclock
toastie wrote:I'm willing to try a bit of overclocking with the 1600.
homerdog wrote:That seems like the more important upgrade priority than the 3770K.My current monitor is 1600x900
Concupiscence wrote:That's exactly what I was thinking. It's never too late!Ironically the 3770K will almost certainly be the better overclocker of the two, but you never know.
flip-mode wrote:homerdog wrote:That seems like the more important upgrade priority than the 3770K.My current monitor is 1600x900
thecoldanddarkone wrote:For cpu, I wouldn't upgrade until cannonlake comes out. I'm in this situation with my 4930k and have decided I'm going to buy a new monitor. I almost binged and purchased http://www.microcenter.com/product/4727 ... ng_Monitor. While my Ivy-e @ 4.4 might cause some frame issues, I can't justify upgrading to a new platform when all I need is 6-8 cores.
homerdog wrote:I have a tiny little Noctua cooler that is great for the size, but not something I can really OC on. I bought it for another project that never materialized.