New CPU, MB and RAM Upgrade, please advise

marcd89

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Hello All,

Returning again to seek more helpful knowledge from the community.

I'm currently seeing huge bottlenecks with my I5-4570. Massive stutters when all 4 cores hit 100%. It has done well for me the last 4 years and if I continued playing my usual games I'd have no need for an upgrade but it appears 4c/4t simply won't cut it for much longer. BF1 is smooth as butter until all cores max out, Fallout 4 is the same. Older games like The Witcher 3 run brilliantly on current system, unless it's in the middle of the city where CPU get's pegged again.

I'll be needing a new MB, CPU and RAM since the CPU options all require a different MB and I have DDR3 ram.

What I'd like to achieve here is a GPU bottleneck, in the sense that in 1 or 2 years it will be my 1060 6GB needing upgraded and my CPU will be just as good. I don't mind changing GPUs often but I'd rather a CPU last a good few years since everyone seems to say it gets upgraded the least.

I'm not picky about teams here (AMD or Intel), I simply want the want the CPU that will do me best. I intend to remain 1080p 60fps for the foreseeable future. In FPS games I might uncap fps but I have no interest at 1440p monitors etc.

Here are the PCPartPickers I currently have looked at, I have an aftermarket cooler so please ignore the combatability issue of no cooler.

8700k + MB and RAM
£560
https://uk.pcpartpicker.com/list/ZnHWZR

8700 + MB and RAM
£515
https://uk.pcpartpicker.com/list/TZX6Cy

8600k + MB and RAM
£467
https://uk.pcpartpicker.com/list/VPHC7h

8400 + MB and RAM
£402
https://uk.pcpartpicker.com/list/s8jHXH

1800x + MB and RAM
£525
https://uk.pcpartpicker.com/list/Zq3wP3

1700x + MB and RAM
£496
https://uk.pcpartpicker.com/list/GkLDHN

1700 + MB and RAM
£487
https://uk.pcpartpicker.com/list/sRjpTH

1600x + MB and RAM
£420
https://uk.pcpartpicker.com/list/6yYtVY

1600 + MB and RAM
£401
https://uk.pcpartpicker.com/list/kPbGCy

Other PC Components
Cooler: BeQuiet Pure Rock
256GB Crucial Mx100 SSD (boot drive),
500GB HDD
GPU: MSI 1060 6GB
PSU: Coolermaster 650W 90 Plus Gold

I appreicate any and all feedback on this.

Thank you

P.S. Budget isn't really more than the 8700K (under £600 preferably). I'd like my budget to reflect my build. Also the RAM isn't finalised, I have allowed £30/£40 for the current market.
 
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You could do just fine with a 8600k paired with the 1060 GTX. It's an amazing CPU and would not even bottleneck a GTX 1080. The 1060 card would max out with no problem at all. 8700k is for if you want absolute max performance and want to spend a premium. The 8600k completely trumps all Ryzen processors in gaming as well. Anything over 8700k would be overkill.

Go for the 8600k, or the 8700k if you want bleeding edge performance.

jr9

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You could do just fine with a 8600k paired with the 1060 GTX. It's an amazing CPU and would not even bottleneck a GTX 1080. The 1060 card would max out with no problem at all. 8700k is for if you want absolute max performance and want to spend a premium. The 8600k completely trumps all Ryzen processors in gaming as well. Anything over 8700k would be overkill.

Go for the 8600k, or the 8700k if you want bleeding edge performance.

 
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