This is my current situation I pretty much just game on my system and I've already upgraded my gpu with a gigabyte 1070 and now my lil amd cpu is a serious bottleneck. however my game are running fine for now just not best, I'm just not sure if I should just wait for zen next year and see how the market is then or get a I7 6700 and call it a day.
I'm currently running
amd fx 8320 oc 4.2
16gb ddr3 1600
amd radeon ssd
gtx 1070
cooler-master 750wbronze psu
Any help or suggestions would be appreciated, thank you.
I'm still rocking a 2700k stock speed and it does great. I see no reason to upgrade still. And It's able to hit 4.9 on air cooling but causes the occasional hang on boot. Stable at 4.5 Dark Rock Pro 3 cooler keeps it cold at almost 5ghz
if you upgrade to the latest i5 or i7 non extreme, you'll be set for years to come.
yes my display is a 1080, most games run fine but some OpenGL or games that don't optimize for multi thread games aren't going as well examples would be.
borderlands 2(the pre-sequel is running fine tho), ARK:survival evo, Fallout 4, Skyrim a good example of a game working well is doom 4k dsr maxed 130fov lowest frame 40fps cpu never flinched
It's not a matter of games not being playable it's just painfully obvious that my 8320 is holding back the 1070
I'd say the biggest problem is that ever since I have upgraded to the 1070 my loading screens are taking forever(not literally), and overclocking seems to help but Idk why(I was assuming bottleneck).
Skyrim only uses 2 CPU threads, I don't think ARK runs well on any system currently, not sure on fallout 4
But overall if you were going to upgrade I'd upgrade big to X99 from an FX 8 core, an i7 6700 is another option I guess, but multi-threaded performance isn't going to be too much higher
Or just get a 4k display so your 1070 can actually get a work out and you'll have the 4k desktop as you wait for zen/funding
i was thinking of x99 as well but wasn't sure if it'll be worth it if I could just wait a few months to see what is poping up around the corner(and considering the price yikes). as for the monitors that definitely looks like something up my ally(I'm more interested in high frames and wide aspect ratio much more than high res that's why I bought an nvidia card)
as far as x99 do you think 5820 6800 or 6850 is the better option?
when it comes to monitors honestly all I know is refresh rate aspect ratio and res and that's about it.
that's actually what I meant by "wait for Zen" because when Zen comes out there will be other cpu's on the market or about to come out, so then I would be able to compare the hardware available.
well on the monitors they have TN displays, which has some color shift when viewed from an angle, but modern TN is really pretty good actually, especially considering cost given you get display port, I don't think there's any IPS displays in that price range with display port and 75hz.
Also they have VESA if I remember right so you can mount them with an arm set up
Far as X99 goes, kind of a go big or go home thing, an i7 6700 is an alright upgrade, but mostly gives you per core performance, where as the 6 core gives you everything performance, costs a bit more of course.