can i play bf1 on a i7 3770 or should i get the k version?

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Hey guys, im currently in the procces of upgrading my old rig and lastly need a new cpu, i was looking at the i7 3770 as im pretty sure it's the best cpu for my chip set and i was just wondering if it was worth an upgrade to the k version or if the non k version would be fine.

mainly getting the upgrade for bf1.

btw i use a gtx 1060 gaming x with 16 gb of ram and 240gb ssd.

ty in advance :)
 
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The P67 is equivalent to the newer Z77 in terms of overclocking, basically just missing out on PCIe 3.0 I believe.

Either CPU will get you about the same performance if you just drop it in, as I said. But you can overclock the i7-3770k and get a few hundred Mhz more out of it, with proper cooling.

There will always be a bottleneck in any system. What matters is the end performance which should be fine.

Unless you replace the motherboard, and memory for 6th gen, to get a newer gen chip you aren't going to do any better.
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i have the MSI P67A-G45 motherboard, but do you think the i7 3770 would get bottlenecked without overclocking and run the game fine, or should i go for the k upgrade?
 
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The P67 is equivalent to the newer Z77 in terms of overclocking, basically just missing out on PCIe 3.0 I believe.

Either CPU will get you about the same performance if you just drop it in, as I said. But you can overclock the i7-3770k and get a few hundred Mhz more out of it, with proper cooling.

There will always be a bottleneck in any system. What matters is the end performance which should be fine.

Unless you replace the motherboard, and memory for 6th gen, to get a newer gen chip you aren't going to do any better.
 
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thanks so much for the help, have a great day :)
 
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If I had to take a hack at it

-They're partnered with AMD so they might be biased to use AMD CPU's a bit more effectively.
-The game engine I hear is a core hungry engine. While FX has half the true, phyisical cores of it's advertised number, Intel CPU's from sandy onwards I believe split their cores into two logical cores, effectively being 6 cores on AMD and 8 on Intel which I don't get. The only way this makes sense in my head is if the game was made to not pick up intel's physical core as 2 logical ones.
I'm willing to bet a haswell / skylake i5 (maybe not the 6400 and it's haswell equivalent) would probably also work fine.

Sorry to go off topic but there might be some food for thought in there.
 
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It is undoubtedly core hungry and hyperthreading certainly helps, but their minimum is a enthusiast class piece of hardware that is about 1 year old.

I would have to find it, but there was a really good chart that showed a lowly FX-4300 running 40FPS in BF1 with a GTX1080. If that little CPU can hack it, than any core series chip afterr the 1st gen i3 will do well enough.

A three generation old i7 is going to be just fine. I was managing 90FPS or so on ultra with an i7-4770k with a GTX1080, to only be barely doubling an FX4300 is silly. (And tells you the game is much more graphically bound, and their minimum there is a GTX760)

There are so so many threads about people asking if their computers can run BF1, and almost universally the answer is yes. Minimum FPS may not be the best with some CPUs, but it is still enough to play. And that is what Minimum is supposed to mean.

/rant
 
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I have a non k 3770 and an r9 290, 16gb of ram which I suggest getting if you haven't already as it can run past 8gb, running on win 10.
Now as I run a 144hz monitor, I like to tweak settings that don't lose too much of the visuals but keeps the frames high.
So with that said, on a 64 man conquest server it never dips below 80fps, and hovers around 100fps, and I'm always amongst the action. All my cores sit around 75 80%. Which i think is fantastic for a cpu this age considering how cpu hungry a 64 man server is. I've also done some win 10 tweaks I found on yt to minimise cpu usage. And with some more optimisation from dice, this cpu will perform even further :)
So to sum up, this cpu is more than capable
 
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