- Jan 3, 2017
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Hi guys. So I guess I have a pretty strange request/appeal for help.
My current gaming system is a 1080ti with a Gsync 4k monitor (Acer CB280HK) a 4790k @4.8ghz and 16gb 2133mhz RAM. The ONLY games I ever play are the STALKER series and the various mods that exist for them and because the game engines are very old they are notoriously dependent on one CPU core (and maybe 10% of another core) and I am horribly CPU limited with everything turned up. One core is absolutely maxed out and STALKER: clear sky especially has big frame drops in places. Meanwhile the 1080ti is hardly breaking sweat! So I'm looking to get rid of my 4790k but what should I replace it with?
I am prepared to pay whatever it costs - within the bounds of reason - to get the absolute best performance I can for my application. I thought that the 7700k might be a good bet - especially one of the binned 5.x ghz ones from Siliconlottery - but with Skylake-X coming out, I wonder if the 6 core 7800X might do better because of a superior cache architecture and quad-channel RAM? Switching off hyperthreading and, say, three cores and clocking the rest of them to the max might give the best overclock and let the active cores share all the L3? Or would I be better still going to the 8 core 7820X and letting the cores share even more L3? Or even the 10 core i9? While I know that a larger L3 cache only makes a small difference, as long as there actually is a difference I'm happy to pay for it
I would appreciate your input.
Many thanks.
My current gaming system is a 1080ti with a Gsync 4k monitor (Acer CB280HK) a 4790k @4.8ghz and 16gb 2133mhz RAM. The ONLY games I ever play are the STALKER series and the various mods that exist for them and because the game engines are very old they are notoriously dependent on one CPU core (and maybe 10% of another core) and I am horribly CPU limited with everything turned up. One core is absolutely maxed out and STALKER: clear sky especially has big frame drops in places. Meanwhile the 1080ti is hardly breaking sweat! So I'm looking to get rid of my 4790k but what should I replace it with?
I am prepared to pay whatever it costs - within the bounds of reason - to get the absolute best performance I can for my application. I thought that the 7700k might be a good bet - especially one of the binned 5.x ghz ones from Siliconlottery - but with Skylake-X coming out, I wonder if the 6 core 7800X might do better because of a superior cache architecture and quad-channel RAM? Switching off hyperthreading and, say, three cores and clocking the rest of them to the max might give the best overclock and let the active cores share all the L3? Or would I be better still going to the 8 core 7820X and letting the cores share even more L3? Or even the 10 core i9? While I know that a larger L3 cache only makes a small difference, as long as there actually is a difference I'm happy to pay for it
I would appreciate your input.
Many thanks.