feetfats Posted November 18, 2019 Posted November 18, 2019 (edited) Hello everyone. My 1070Ti is being bottle necked in games pretty hard by my i5 3570k. What would be a good upgrade path? Will I need a whole new board and ram? I'm running DDR3 memory on an Asrock Z77 Extreme3 Thanks Edited November 18, 2019 by feetfats Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Braegnok Posted November 18, 2019 Posted November 18, 2019 You need to consider your Z77 platform is 7-years old, you could replace i5 chip with i7 chip, and see an improvement. My advise would be upgrading platform to Z390 and i5-9600K, you would see a huge improvement. i5-3570K vs i5-9600K : https://www.cpu-monkey.com/en/compare_cpu-intel_core_i5_3570k-324-vs-intel_core_i5_9600k-889 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
feetfats Posted November 18, 2019 Posted November 18, 2019 34 minutes ago, Braegnok said: You need to consider your Z77 platform is 7-years old, Oh I have lol. Its amazing how time flys. I will check out the 9600k. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ir_cow Posted November 18, 2019 Posted November 18, 2019 I did a crappy article a few years ago when I compared a i7 3930K to a i7 7700K. The idea was solid, execution was flawed as I used a GTX 1070 and didn't compare enough games. Anyways while the CPUs had similar benchmark results. Old 6-core vs new 4-core. The big difference was switching to DDR4. I saw 30% increase in FPS and the limit was actually the video card I was using didn't reflex how much further it "could have been". We all know taking a RTX 2080 Ti and pairing it with a i5 3570K would be counter-productive. But a middle ground does exist. No need to buy a whole new system. Just replace the CPU+MB with a Ryzen 3600 or a i5-9600K. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
feetfats Posted November 18, 2019 Posted November 18, 2019 2 hours ago, ir_cow said: I did a crappy article a few years ago when I compared a i7 3930K to a i7 7700K. The idea was solid, execution was flawed as I used a GTX 1070 and didn't compare enough games. Anyways while the CPUs had similar benchmark results. Old 6-core vs new 4-core. The big difference was switching to DDR4. I saw 30% increase in FPS and the limit was actually the video card I was using didn't reflex how much future it "could have been". We all know taking a RTX 2080 Ti and pairing it with a i5 3570K would be counter-productive. But a middle ground does exist. No need to buy a whole new system. Just replace the CPU+MB with a Ryzen 3600 or a i5-9600K. No intention to build from scratch. I will need to get some ddr4 though. I've done some quick comparisons and it seems like the 9600k might be best bang for buck right now. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
feetfats Posted November 29, 2019 Posted November 29, 2019 (edited) Here is a screenshot of what I plan to purchase. Please let me know if there are any better options. Maybe my CPU cooler is overkill? I currently have a 212 evo cooler. Keep in mind I am in Canada. Thanks. Edited November 29, 2019 by feetfats Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Braegnok Posted November 29, 2019 Posted November 29, 2019 (edited) Nice looking hardware! The MSI Z390-A Pro is the only MSI board to include a D-Sub video output which seemingly replaces the HDMI, and also they included a DisplayPort and DVI-D output. I like the simple aesthetics, the coffee colored PCB with silver patterning across it looks sweet, Intel I219V and Realtek ALC892 are solid controllers. Edited November 30, 2019 by Braegnok 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
feetfats Posted December 5, 2019 Posted December 5, 2019 Parts have been ordered. I'm pretty excited. Thanks for the help fellas. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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