Thinking of Upgrading ? Read this !

[jaydee]

HI all .I have done my upgrade in two steps . First, I got a 2080ti. I had a gtx 1080. My Res is 3440.1440(this is important) ...I run BOS on ultra . 

Stuck in 2080ti ...not much difference.

My 9700K arrived. I had a 6700k.I waited for 9700k because (I believe) it has greater headroom for overclocking.9900k owners are going to get Throttled even if they have 10 Fans.I may be wrong but I made my choice.  On all the same settings in BOS, I am getting 10-30 FPS more. IE, 100-130 fps. My mem is the same  at 3000....

So Really, you don't need to spend money on "The Latest and Greatest". Just depends on what Resolution you want to play and that is your video card.. All the VR guys will chime in with "yea but no But".

Bos loves High CPU Freq..If you have an old MB, try Overclocking your CPU to 4.5 to 4.9. What have you got to lose ? You are thinking of upgrading ? If you can get 4.7, you don't need a CPU/MB upgrade. 

Video Card. Honestly, in my resolution, 1080 to 2080ti ! not much difference.

[Seb71]

2 hours ago, jaydee said:

So Really, you don't need to spend money on "The Latest and Greatest".

 

Your "old" components (6700K and GTX 1080) are not exactly slow (nor cheap). And 9700K is not far off from "latest and greatest".

[=EXPEND=Tripwire]

2 hours ago, jaydee said:

All the VR guys will chime in with "yea but no But".

 

Most VR guys have been demonstrating that single core CPU performance has the biggest impact on IL2 performance for a long time now. Lots of benchmarks illustrating this.

 

Your results would not surprise most of us that have been investigating how to get performance gains in VR

[1PL-Husar-1Esk]

True , better in terms of new gen matched with higher clock CPU gives BoX biggest kick. Same with overclocking. 

[AristocratPanda]

I've just ordered a 8600k.

I chose this over the 8700k because of the big price difference. Do you know if there's any difference in performance when both are oc'ed to 5ghz ?

 

[CanadaOne]

I would love to get a 6700K and replace my 6500 with it - and keep Win 7 - but the prices for the 6700k new or used are insanely high. Often much higher than a 7700K or 8700K.

 

Shmucks!

[1PL-Husar-1Esk]

I about to sell my i7 6700k and buy i7 9700k , unfortunately new mb with this change  socket is right but chipset z170 not Asus Maximus bought only for one cpu because I skipped  i7 7700k.

Edited November 20, 2018 by 307_Tomcat

[Warpig]

Intel chips are so close between gens now, that I would probably wait at least 5 gens before spending the money on an upgrade. Hell... I just replaced my i7-2600k last year with the i7-8700k. That's 6 gens it lasted me. And I still sold the 2600k for $100 on Ebay.

 

If my Z68 MB wasn't giving me weird issues, that I never could solve in the years I had it, I would still be rocking my 2600k.

Edited November 21, 2018 by Warpig