Should I upgrade to an i5 6600 from the 6400?

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Right now I have an i5 6400 paired with a gtx 1070 and I'm getting smooth performance for the most part (60FPS with vsync on because I get lots of screen tearing without it on), but I get frame dips to about 40 FPS a lot in demanding games like Just Cause 3 and the Battlefield 1 beta. Would upgrading to an i5 6600 give me better perfomance or will there not be a noticable difference?
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i5 6400
EVGA GTX 1070 FTW
Asus B150-PRO D3
Crucial Ballistix Sport 16GB DDR3 1600MHz
 
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The B150 Pro does NOT support overclocking, so it's pretty pointless to get the 6700K or 6600K. Without either of those though, the performance increase isn't all that great, 21% in multithreaded performance (useful for games like BF1 and JC3), which translates to less than 10% framerate improvement in most cases.

Rather than that, I would suggest getting a 144Hz monitor or G-Sync, those will remove tearing...
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The i5 6600 is clocked just under 20% faster, so you can expect ~20% better performance in completely CPU bottlenecked scenarios. E.g. 40fps would become 48fps.

Why not to an i7 6700 or 6700k? That would be a far more significant improvement.
 
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Would a 6700 give me a good enough performance boost to upgrade?
 
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I've had my i5 3570K for 4 years now, and even with some screaming deals on i7 3770K's, I've not yet been tempted.

It's entirely your call in the end. Seems like a lot of money for a few frames, but if you've money to burn, go for it.
 
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The B150 Pro does NOT support overclocking, so it's pretty pointless to get the 6700K or 6600K. Without either of those though, the performance increase isn't all that great, 21% in multithreaded performance (useful for games like BF1 and JC3), which translates to less than 10% framerate improvement in most cases.

Rather than that, I would suggest getting a 144Hz monitor or G-Sync, those will remove tearing and also eliminate most vsync related slowdowns!
 
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