What's a better CPU to upgrade to?

Kriilus

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I have an i5-6600k and I would like to be running almost every game at full settings and getting a decent fps without dipping. Any suggestions to any cpus that are decently priced with a considerable amount more performance than the one i have now?

CPU: i5-6600k
GPU: MSI GTX 1060 6G X
MOBO: AsRock z170 gaming 4
 
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Do the lag spikes/FPS drops only happen in online gaming? If so, it could be the Internet connection (either on your end or on the server's end) that causes those lags/drops.

Also, as pointed out by the others, you have a very powerful system. And you're not going to see any real performance upgrades by switching to a core i7 chip, or even moving from your Skylake chip to a Kaby Lake chip:
-- Battlefield 4 (http://www.techspot.com/review/734-battlefield-4-benchmarks/page6.html): the game is over 3 years old now, but back then there was not only little to no performance differences between the core i5 & core i7 chips, there were little to no performance differences between the Ivy Bridge & Haswell chips, & that was with the chips...
Well, ofcourse an i7 6700k/7700k, will stop you from having dips, but are you sure those are dips are cpu related and not gpu? The system you have now is very well balanced. What games do you play? How much RAM do you have?

Also did you overclock you cpu? That could also help. :)
 

Kriilus

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I have Corsair Vengance 16GB of RAM. The games I play are: Elder Scrolls Online, Battlefield 1 and 4, For Honor and CS:GO occasionally. I get lag spikes and fps drops in all of those games.

No, i haven't overclocked my CPU, At least i don't think i have.
 


Not enough info. What FPS are you aiming for or what HZ is your monitor? The GTX 1060 is considered a 1080p 60Hz/FPS card although it can do higher FPS if you dial down settings to medium-high in modern AAA games.

For 60 FPS your current CPU at stock speeds should maintain a minimum of 60 fps in nearly all games all the time.

The only upgrades are an i7 but if gaming at 60Hz/FPS there is no point. If gaming at 1080p 144Hz you would be better off with a GPU upgrade although an i7 would also help in some CPU heavy games.

 

Kriilus

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My monitor is an Asus ROG Swift PG248Q which has 144hz and has G-sync. "What FPS are you aiming for" That depends on the game but at least a solid 90fps at least in most games if not more.
 

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Do the lag spikes/FPS drops only happen in online gaming? If so, it could be the Internet connection (either on your end or on the server's end) that causes those lags/drops.

Also, as pointed out by the others, you have a very powerful system. And you're not going to see any real performance upgrades by switching to a core i7 chip, or even moving from your Skylake chip to a Kaby Lake chip:
-- Battlefield 4 (http://www.techspot.com/review/734-battlefield-4-benchmarks/page6.html): the game is over 3 years old now, but back then there was not only little to no performance differences between the core i5 & core i7 chips, there were little to no performance differences between the Ivy Bridge & Haswell chips, & that was with the chips running from 3.3 to 3.6GHz. Not to mention that an Ivy Bridge core i3 (i3-3220) was able to hang with those chips. Basically, just about any 2C/4T or better CPU with over 3GHz per core will max out that game.
-- Battlefield 1 (http://www.techspot.com/review/1267-battlefield-1-benchmarks/page4.html): obviously a much newer game, & their CPU testing was limited due to EA Origin's "hardware change" issues. However, when the "better" core i7 (with a faster clock speed to boot) puts in the same performance as your core i5 (with the only difference being better minimum FPS on DX12), you're not going to see improvement either.
-- For Honor (http://www.techspot.com/review/1333-for-honor-benchmarks/page3.html): only 1 of the 3 that there were "measurable" improvement in your FPS by going from the i5-6600K to an i7-6700K. However...the problem is that the performance increase was very, very small (~5% for minimum FPS, ~3% for average FPS), & at 1080p your performance is dramatically held back by your GTX 1060 anyway (http://www.techspot.com/review/1333-for-honor-benchmarks/).

Can't speak to CS:GO's performance, but even though it's supposedly a CPU-bound game I'm betting that your GTX 1060 would hold you back from super high FPS anyway. So what it comes back to is either a) these spikes/FPS drops are due to the connection to the server (which you can maybe work on if it's on your end, but not much you can do if it's on your ISP's end or on the server's end), or b) the spikes/drops are happening because your CPU and/or GPU is getting thermally throttled (in which case you should monitor their temperatures while gaming & idling to see if any temperature spikes match up with the lag spikes/FPS drops).
 
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