Looking to upgrade my i5 6600 non k for game streaming in the most economical way. Need advice!!!

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I have a non k 6600 and a gtx 1080, I see it struggling with games when I'm broadcasting at 720p 30fps. I was thinking of just popping in a 7700k in the b150 board but I'm afraid it might not be enough when I have my plex server. I feel the ryzen 6 or 8 core are the best bet but that means new ram,motherboard, cooler, and I might as well upgrade to an m.2. nvme drive if I get a capable board as well. I've thought about a used 6800k but then I need a 2011 board and etc, etc. I'd love to get some input here!
 
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I7-7700K is a very good idea, I think.
They seem to be discounted now that 8th gen processors are out.

The single thread core performance is usually what matters most for games.
That is particularly true at lower resolutions where the limitation of the graphics card is lessened.

Your I5-6600 runs stock at 3.5 with a turbo on a single core up tp 3.9 when conditions are right.

Replacing with a I7-7700K will run at 4.2 with a turbo up to 4.5.
The extra threads will not likely be all that useful. Few games can usefully use more than 2-3 threads.

Ryzen will top out an overclock around 4.0 with per clock performance a tad slower than Intel.
Moreover, it is unlikely that you can use all of the 12 or 16 threads that it provides for games...
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I'm sure you know this already, but you need Z motherboard to oc K processor...which is why you want to upgrade from non-k right?
Simply putting hyperthreaded cores won't be good enough for your use case. Maybe sell your CPU+Mobo and buy Ryzen 5
 
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Ok, I'll grant you that at 720p resolutions games are CPU-limited...but the only reason you should be that limited is if you're only using the integrated graphics on that i5-6600,

Do you have a separate GPU installed in your system? If not, then get yourself at least a GTX 1050, if not a 1050TI/1060 or one of AMD's RX 570/580 cards. You'll not only see vastly improved performance at 720p, you'll find yourself easily hitting 50-60+ FPS at 1080p.

 
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I7-7700K is a very good idea, I think.
They seem to be discounted now that 8th gen processors are out.

The single thread core performance is usually what matters most for games.
That is particularly true at lower resolutions where the limitation of the graphics card is lessened.

Your I5-6600 runs stock at 3.5 with a turbo on a single core up tp 3.9 when conditions are right.

Replacing with a I7-7700K will run at 4.2 with a turbo up to 4.5.
The extra threads will not likely be all that useful. Few games can usefully use more than 2-3 threads.

Ryzen will top out an overclock around 4.0 with per clock performance a tad slower than Intel.
Moreover, it is unlikely that you can use all of the 12 or 16 threads that it provides for games.

First, though, look at the cpu support list for your particular B150 motherboard.
Likely, you will need a current bios update to run 7th gen processors.

If you were to replace the B150 motherboard with a Z270 based motherboard. then you could overclock the I7-7700K.
80% of 7700k processors will OC to 4.9.
That would cost you perhaps an additional $150.

If you were amenable to a motherboard change, I suggest going to 8th gen and a I3-8350K.
A Z370 motherboard will cost the same $150, but the 4 core I3-8350K will cost less, perhaps $190.
A 6 core I5-8600K will be about $300.
Each is likely to OC to 4.8 or better.

You might want to try an experiment and see what happens if you reduce your 4 threads to 3.
You can do this in the windows msconfig boot advanced options option.
You will need to reboot for the change to take effect. Set the number of processors to less than you have.
This will tell you how sensitive your games are to the benefits of many threads.
If you see little difference, it tells you that you will not benefit from more cores.
Likely, a better clock rate will be more important.
 
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