Possible upgrade for CPU. Using 4770k will no longer overclock

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Ok. So... I currently have an i7 4770k. It's just over 3 and a half years old and I'm no longer able to achieve a stable overclock with out spiking the voltage to and extremely high level. I'm thinking about upgrading. I primarily game. What should I go with? My cooler is an h110 gt. And I have an EVGA GTX 1080 super clocked. I was thinking about a 1700x. But i'm not really sure. I have a ASUS MG278Q WQHD, 1ms 27-Inch FreeSync Gaming Monitor. Hope that's enough info!!
 
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Since you needed a new MB for a cpu change anyway, waiting for Coffeelake 8700K performance summaries seems logical..

If limited to stock clocks, play at high res/max/ultra quality..

The bargain-priced R5-1600/1600X at 4.0 GHz do quite well in gaming benchmarks, normally close to equalling 1800X at 4.0 Ghz, and often offering 95% of 7700K performance for $50-$70 less cpu cost; perhaps not the peak highs and not as high average FPS, but higher mins/1% lows...
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If you are doing pure gaming and nothing else, and you want to drive 144hz get an i7-7700k and overclock it to ~5Ghz. If you are doing anything else than just gaming I'd say go for a 1700 or 1700x depending on if you already have a cooler or not.

This review: http://www.legitreviews.com/intel-core-i7-7700k-versus-amd-ryzen-1700x-14-game-cpu-showdown_192508/2 has the 1700x at 4Ghz beating the 7700k at 4.2Ghz basically every time by just a bit, but if you have the cooling head room to go for 5 GHz on the i7 then you could expect around a max of ~20% CPU power increase (less than that for actual game performance).
 
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Do you think I'll see much of a difference in the 7700k vs what I have now? That's the chip I was leaning toward. Or should I maybe wait? I mean, I'm stable at stock clocks ATM.
 
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You won't see a night and day difference with either the 1700x or the 7700k, (unless you were doing some sort of rendering work or streaming, then the 1700x would be a big difference), but depending on the games you play and your cooling setup either could be better.
 
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7700k is not a huge upgrade from a 4770k, I don't think upgrading the whole platform just for bit more single core power is justified. That being said, if all you do is game then Ryzen won't be a big upgrade either. At this point i'd say your best option is just to keep your 4770k and wait for coffee lake and 2nd gen Ryzen.
 
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So I should just wait even though I'm not able to overclock anymore?
 
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Since you needed a new MB for a cpu change anyway, waiting for Coffeelake 8700K performance summaries seems logical..

If limited to stock clocks, play at high res/max/ultra quality..

The bargain-priced R5-1600/1600X at 4.0 GHz do quite well in gaming benchmarks, normally close to equalling 1800X at 4.0 Ghz, and often offering 95% of 7700K performance for $50-$70 less cpu cost; perhaps not the peak highs and not as high average FPS, but higher mins/1% lows...
 
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Yep, the cost of upgrading is just way too high for what you'd get in performance.
 
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