Looking to upgrade i7 2700k mobo/cpu for gaming

[buck]

My current machine has:
MB GIGABYTE GA-Z68XP-UD3
INTEL|CORE I7 2700K
8GB whateverthehellram

I was looking for the best bang for my buck, looking to spend$600-700 for mobo/CPU/Ram

Intel Core i7-4790K LGA1150 4GHz Processor
ASUS LGA1150 Maximus VII Hero ROG
Patriot DDR3 16GB 2133MHz Dual (2x8GB)Modules

Is what I was thinking, is there a better bang for my buck? I play Dayz and i have a 980GTX. I HAVE to reinstall windows because of a virus so I thought what better time to upgrade.

 

[Burpo]

Your current rig is fine for that game & most others (with a GTX 980). Maybe add some ram & an SSD. Overclocking yet?

 

[buck]

Your current rig is fine for that game. Have you overclocked yet?

I haven't, no real need for it to be faster until this game. I played diablo3 with everything maxed out and had no issues with other games until this one. Its playable, but I have seen better performance on twitch.

 

[Burpo]

Then your selection is pretty much as good as it gets for single thread perf. Go for it

 

[buck]

Another reason for upgrade was I was looking at a pci-e SSD soon and wanted more ram.... Perhaps just upgrade ram and mobo if the cpu isnt worth upgrading?

 

[buck]

Then your selection is pretty much as good as it gets for single thread perf. Go for it

Thank you

 

[Midwayman]

I haven't, no real need for it to be faster until this game. I played diablo3 with everything maxed out and had no issues with other games until this one. Its playable, but I have seen better performance on twitch.

That 2700k can take a lot of OC. Might as well do that before replacing it. I was getting CPU bound on 64p bf4 multiplayer at times when trying to keep a steady 100fps. OC'ing did the trick.

 

[buck]

That 2700k can take a lot of OC. Might as well do that before replacing it. I was getting CPU bound on 64p bf4 multiplayer at times when trying to keep a steady 100fps. OC'ing did the trick.

What motherboard are you using?

 

[Midwayman]

What motherboard are you using?

Don't remember off hand, but its not a special OC'ing board or anything. Its a low end z77 board. Only real concession I made to OCing was a hyper 212+ cooler. 4.2 should be easy, even on a stock cooler. I think I'm around 4.3 (Its been awhile) but I didn't try and push it.

 

[escrow4]

DayZ is a dog of a game. No real reason to upgrade due to its engine. May as well get a 5820K and slap it up to 4.0GHz if you are upgrading - make it a real upgrade.

 

[WT]

I have a similar setup, 2500k@4.2 with a Gigabyte GA-Z68XP-UD3-iSSD board, and there just seems to be no recommended upgrade path for these setups. The 2500k-2700k chips are just such good performers that it rarely is worth it to upgrade, at least at the moment. I did buy a 290x a month ago (upgrade from a 7970) to smooth out modded Skyrim slowdowns, but otherwise I am holding onto what I have.

Skylake is the best choice for a full upgrade path if you have time to wait out its arrival late this year.

 

[PhIlLy ChEeSe]

What motherboard are you using?

Your mother board will "AUTO VOLT"(up to4500) just change the CPU multi in the bios, then under stress check the voltage that is given by the board. Of course watch your temps, not sure what cooler your using.

 

[mfenn]

Another reason for upgrade was I was looking at a pci-e SSD soon and wanted more ram.... Perhaps just upgrade ram and mobo if the cpu isnt worth upgrading?

I wouldn't buy another 1156 motherboard at this point unless you're having hardware issues with your current one. RAM is probably the only thing that I'd upgrade in the "core system", and even then only if you're running out.

If you don't have an SSD or have an older, smaller one (128GB or less), definitely redirect the money towards that.

 

[Yuriman]

IMO, that's a lot to spend for not very much more performance. You're looking at maybe 5-20% per clock, but Haswell doesn't overclock as high.

If you can crank your 2700K up to 4.8ghz, a 4790K would be more like 5% slower to 10% faster. Not all 2700K's will hit that clock, but certainly more will than Haswell.

 

[BonzaiDuck]

Last time it drew my attention, I could see that a 2600K/2700K @ 4.6 or 4.7 was neck-and-neck with an i7-4770K in certain benchmarks, the latter clocked to 4.4.

Last fall, I acquired an i5-3570K almost by accident: the seller offered the year-old processor and 16GB of XMS3 RAM with the motherboard as a package; I only wanted the motherboard. I figured I got the processor and RAM for half the Egg price on each at that time.

So I finally finished replacing my brother's system -- an old LGA-775 rig. I have two Sandy systems: the sig and an 2700K system which are essentially identical -- same case, same fans, similar cooling strategy and similar storage. Bro's case is a 10-year-old CM Centurion cheapo I had handy, and I managed to put an additional 140mm intake fan in the 5.25" drive cage; storage is all 2.5" SSDs and HDDs. For "no sheet-metal work," I'm still congratulating myself for the "modless mod" with that case.

The Ivy Bridge is not overclocked. The gfx card is an "old" GTX 570 EVGA. Since it has no hyper-threading, I'm rather stunned -- and pleased -- at how snappy the system seems. The Sandy rigs are clocked to the levels indicated in first paragraph.

So I'm stuck in the limbo of upgrade indecision on these boxes. I don't see any reason for it now. And there are several things the OP can do to get faster CPU performance with the same motherboard and RAM.

But if he wants to do it, that's good . . . too . . But also, you'd wonder how adding another 980 gfx card might affect the situation, or even for OC'ing the 980 he already has. That -- in addition to OC'ing the 2700K.

 

[crashtech]

The OP hasn't talked about overclocking much. At stock, the performance increase offered by the 4790K over the 2700K could be about 25%, which is fairly substantial.

But if the 2700K is a decent overclocker, most or all of that performance delta could be erased.

 

[Muadib]

Another Gigabyte GA-Z68XP-UD3 owner with a 2600k looking to upgrade. This thread has pretty much confirmed my thought of waiting for Skylake, and upgrading my monitor & gfx card asap. Now if amd would help that along...