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I need to know if going from my i5 4690k to i7 4790k will do a better job in battlefield 1 and games there after. Right now I'm getting FPS average of 90 on medium settings with 1080p and all cores are running at or just about 100% With dx 12 on. I'm wondering if the hyperthreading and faster clock speed will take the CPU usage down and hopefully the FPS up and be able to run on ultra.
I'm hoping someone here has tested this or runs an 4790k with better results than I'm getting currently.
 
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I don't know where people think bf1 isn't cpu intensive, it pretty much maxes out i5's and i7's alike. The typical boost going to an i7 comes from the higher stock speeds, the 4690k stock is 3.5ghz (3.9 turbo), the 4790k is 4ghz (4.4 turbo). If you have a z97 motherboard and a decent aftermarket cooler you might try overclocking the 4690k and see what that does for fps if you haven't overclocked it already.

Fps drops on the larger player maps is pretty common and as I understand the fps drops were less with the beta version than the final release. Many who seem to play with no problem are those who ran the beta, more often than not those with fps drops are using the final product. Dx11 also seems to reach higher fps than dx12...
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Haven't tested it, but since BF1 is not intensive on the CPU, the hyperthreading will give only a slight improvement, if any at all. Now if you are going to render videos, then it would help. But for gaming, you may or may not see an increase
 
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I'm not as knowledgeable as most on this site but wouldn't say I'm a beginner this is first day posting on this forum. So I've seen on evga's monitor overlay that all four cores are running at 97 to 100% so wouldn't that be intensive on the CPU if that's what I'm seeing or is it the card doi. That or both.
 
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Just wondering if anybody might have a solution maybe tested it because on the larger high detailed maps with 64p I'm getting FPS drops into the 70's. I'm hoping new processor is the answer but now I'm hearing maybe it's possibly the monitor it's a Samsung 27" but it's only connection is hdmi that's it so of course that makes it a 60hz 1080p. I might have heard having a 1440p may put more of the load on the GPU in turn raising the FPS but I'm really leaning on the CPU but have to be almost sure because they still want $335 for the 4790k I've also got 16gb RAM at 1600mhz which I'm positive is not an issue. Issue is I can't be happy unless the game looks the best it can I reckon haha.
 
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I don't know where people think bf1 isn't cpu intensive, it pretty much maxes out i5's and i7's alike. The typical boost going to an i7 comes from the higher stock speeds, the 4690k stock is 3.5ghz (3.9 turbo), the 4790k is 4ghz (4.4 turbo). If you have a z97 motherboard and a decent aftermarket cooler you might try overclocking the 4690k and see what that does for fps if you haven't overclocked it already.

Fps drops on the larger player maps is pretty common and as I understand the fps drops were less with the beta version than the final release. Many who seem to play with no problem are those who ran the beta, more often than not those with fps drops are using the final product. Dx11 also seems to reach higher fps than dx12.

http://www.gamersnexus.net/game-bench/2673-battlefield-1-cpu-benchmark-dx11-vs-dx12-i5-i7-fx/page-2

Have you tried checking the cpu and gpu usage and comparing them from high or very high to ultra along with fps? You may find that ultra impacts the gpu more than the cpu and fps doesn't drop as much.
 
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I have tested that and the CPU usage stays around the same I have the CPU at 4.00 with the oc genie on the msi z97 g45 but need to start another thread about how to manually oc on that motherboard bc the voltage stays on auto mode and I'm curious if I turn the ratio up will the voltage do what it's supposed to do on it's own bc it's on auto and it fluctuates a lot in front of my eyes with no oc at all but when I tried to go to 4.2 it crashes 5 to 10 mins into the game
 
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I think the general consensus is that BF1 is buggy, with wildly inconsistent CPU usage. Some older systems seem to run fine while some newer systems are pegged at 100% CPU no matter what. Check out their forums, it's been full of complaint threads about exactly that.
 
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Unless you have a cpu that's just poor at overclocking (low end of the silicon lottery) you should be able to get better overclocks from manual settings in the bios. Those ez tune 1 click oc options use preset values from the motherboard vendor and they can be pretty aggressive. Meaning they may apply more voltage than necessary for your cpu to reach a specific multiplier.

Each cpu is different, better chips will reach higher overclocks on less voltage than others but to be more inclusive and prevent crashing due to voltage being too low the motherboard companies play it safe. The add extra voltage in hopes of making a wider range of cpu's successfully overclock rather than efficiently overclock.

If you need help with that there's an overclocking section here.

http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/forum-29.html
 
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Well I went ahead and took the leap and I'm happy to say I'm much better off with the 4790k. It does not max out and it also gets better FPS I also am able to play on ultra. Thanks for all your input I think games are catching up with the processors now at last the none extreme editions.
 
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