Yo same do you mind telling me how that upgrade went for you? I have the 7700k rn and literally about to go for the 7800x3d in a few days.

@@angtang01 I went with the 7900X instead, because there was a great deal on a bundle, AND the x3d chips have been over heating and blowing up. Scary stuff that I just wanted to avoid. I put 64gb ram into it and everything runs perfect. Do you live near a microcenter by chance?

@@tylersays- nah I live in Australia so stuff is expensive here hahaha but I appreciate the reply, I'm going for max gaming performance and especially for broken ass tarkov so imma need that v-cache lol

I just upgraded to a 7800x3d from a 7700k today and ultra 4k setting on cyberpunk went from 27fps to 28fps. Both were paired with a rtx3080.

@@BatCorkill I'm pretty sure you should get a gpu upgrade as well, seems like the 3080 is struggling at 4k

1080ti would be more than enough for 2k. A dogshit rx 580 runs helldivers 2 on 1080p at 60 fps.

Yes, keep😢your 7700k

Same

Nice. Started on a Pentium 100mhz, then Celeron 500mhz, then Pentium 4 2.4ghz with that RD RAM. Then I started building my own PCs and went Athlon 64 3400+, Intel Core 2 Duo e6420 and e6320 OC'd to 3.0-3.2ghz daily driving, then a Q6600 that ran at 3.4ghz easy, 3.6ghz with voltages that I couldn't cool with my old Zalman comfortably. Then I went FX-8350 for a few years in a row... LOVED it. Miss it. I'm most nostalgic about that one, honestly. Then Ryzen 3600, Ryzen 5900x... and that's where I'm at now. Asus STRIX B550-F Gaming WiFi II (BT 5.3/WiFi 6e) / Ryzen 9 5900x PBO'd and CO'd / 2x16GB DDR4 3600 C16 dual rank RAM, fully tuned timings / 6700XT 12GB / 8x storage devices (SSDs, 2x HDDs in RAID 0, 1x HDD for storage, and a Samsung 970 Evo Plus as the boot drive/favorite game of the month drive lol) It's always top 1% in the 5900x scores on benchmarks thanks to the CO and PBO and dual rank, tweaked RAM... but it's still NOTHING gaming-wise to a 5800x3D or anything Zen 4.

@@JustAGuy85 I have 3 computers right now. C2D E8400 @3,9 GHz for Win XP, FX 6300 @4,2 GHz for Win 7 and the main rig. I have pretty decent motherboard for FX platform (Gigabyte FXA-990-UD3 rev 5) so I am pondering if I should go for FX 8350. Although FX 6300 in all overclocked system seems to do splendid work already. Enough for a Win 7 computer, IMHO. Even Phenom II 955 handled Win 7 pretty well. I can even play Baldur's Gate 3 on it with acceptable framerate (GTX 970) and this one is really CPU hungry.

@@RudolfSikorsky I saw so much hate on AMD CPUs through that time that I stopped paying attention. I did a job for a friend who doesn't even have PC's. The job wasn't PC related lol, would have been a mechanic job on a vehicle or something, I honestly can't remember. He asked me if I'd take a motherboard that hadn't been used. It was an AM3+ mobo. I was just gonna sell it. But I built that FX-8350 rig with it lol. It was an Asus M5A97 R2.0. So, I got that probably around the time 4th or 5th gen Intel was out. I was on a C2Q Q6600. Point being, I honestly don't know. I found this much out... I had an HD7850 that ran good on it, and I went to an HD7870 that did improve performance a bit. Then I went to an RX480 8GB. I gained little to no performance. Built a mining rig with RX480 8GB's. This was like 2017? I built the rig with a cheap CPU, a Pentium G4560. Turns out, it was practically an i3 7100, just no boost clock (3.5ghz) and probably smaller cache amounts. That CPU did better in 90% of games than my FX-8350. But, as you can imagine, there were quite a few games that did use more than 2c/4t... Battlefield did, Prey did, some games I can't remember did lol... And in those games, even playing around with CrossFire RX480 8GB's, the FX-8350 could come back and do better. For the most part, the G4560 was a better CPU. Whole point is a long way of saying "I don't know." I don't know if that motherboard is just enough or more than enough and I dunno if you'd see gains, and if so, how much you'd see, using the GTX 970. But if you are familiar with these parts, you probably know.

Do you use it to play at 60fps on a 4k monitor? or just 1440p? I am thinking of getting a 3070ti for my 7700k, and i also have a 4k 60fps monitor, but my card is only a 1050ti...

@@j-music7273 higher resolution equals less bottleneck

@@Fouad.Chaoukiyou can achieve the same result by capping your framerate something I highly recommend.

200 for in hogwarts legacy with a 7900 xt and raytracing? Also the rest are easy to run games. Most modern cpus will get 500+. Don’t know why you feel the need to show you’re bottlenecking your gpu in a random comment section but okay!

That cpu can handle a way better gpu.

Yeah its a rip off

@@tech_evolved i have an i3 12100f works really well

If you don't mind stuttering, sure a quad core is fine.

​@@tech_evolved it's not a ripoff, if you also want to use the same computer for running virtual machines. Need VT support in the processor to do that. Pretty sure i3 doesn't support VT instructions.

@@CM-xr9oq Why wouldn't you just buy a xeon processor for that? Can't really justify the i7 7700k for $150 ish.

4k isn't cpu heavy

@tech_evolved Exactly. That's exactly why an i7 7700k with a 308Ti is perfectly adequate.

Same story here , 2k and 4k gaming with a CPU from 2017 year, like np. Good luck to marketologs liars

Apparently the average game gets about a 8-10fps boost going from the 6600 to the 7700. Given a $70 cpu kills our 6600 it is best to just change the motherboard.

If you live in a larger city, I'd suggest checking out the local 2nd hand market. I've seen a number of good z490 and z590 motherboard going for $100usd and processors like the i7-10700k going for $120. You might be able to talk the seller down too. There is also Ryzen. One of my buyers found a working Ryzen 5800x for $80, and I upgraded a system to a ASRock B450 Steel Legend motherboard and a Ryzen 5700x for $220.

@@m8x425 At this point I would just bite the bullet and pay for the 7800x3D.

Those loading times might be dominated by disk access (I don't have BG3), especially if HDD rather than SSD.

@@laserspike i bought an early board with an nvme ssd drive when I built my 6600 system in 2015. Not sure how much fps would change, with enough RAM.

OC gives more heat than fps. For 10fps its not worth it to have very very hot cpu, im done with oc's, now mine is just stock and i love the temps and silent fans

7700K overclocked very well for its time.

@@dankhalifa6937 They are running quite hot. But ive done lapping with mine, used liquid metal paste and i also have watercooling and running stable at 5ghz

Yes.

Same

You know if you tune ram subtimings and ring clocks on that thing to get 35-39ns latency it can get another 10-20% faster

Exactly. I only play ARMA 3 and 60 fps is all i need

I run a 2010 macbook pro with i7 for music production. It has 16gb of RAM and an older SSS. It handles as many audio tracks and vsts that I throw at it.

If you can find a good deal on a used PC with an i7 then I say go out of your way to buy it. I bought a PC in May 2023 with an i7 8700k, GTX 1060 6GB, and 16GB of DDR4 RAM for $300. The motherboard is an MSI Z370-A PRO. The PC came with a Corsair H100i 240mm AIO cooler installed in a Kediers C570 open air case with 7 RGB fans installed.

How did you debloat?

@@bigdoun2011 just look up windows debloater for windows 10 or 11

If you don't want to build a whole new system I would suggest the 7700k upgrade. Getting the hyperthreading and higher clocks will pair good with the 5700 xt. If you want to save and just upgrade to a new platform, I'd suggest amd 7600. It's more than enough for future upgrades and the platform should get future cpu support so you can ugrade to a later generation when you look to upgrade again.

​@@tech_evolveddefinitely, what I was thinking too

Personally I would save and switch platforms. I think if you can find find a cheap am4 motherboard and pick up a first gen ryzen that would be a better quick fix than the 7700. Really just depends on the prebuilt's compatibility with mobo size. I think you should be able to pick up a b450m and an r5 1600 for around $120 ish in US while the 7700k is $150 and the 7700 is $90 (just on eBay rn). That would allow you to upgrade to 5950x or something since you do work as well.

depends on what graphics card you're using. with an 1060 there is not much difference besides mp games. with an better gpu like 3060 you definitely will see a difference.

​@@steffenlze0178 I don't have a powerful card so I can imagine the bottleneck I would get with one but as I said the main use is not just gaming and now I can assure you that with 4 threads, even tho I cleaned Windows of bloatware and other stuff as much as I can, doing multiple heavy tasks is getting pretty choppy. As much as I want to do more with this computer, changing mobo is not doable since windows was installed as OEM and I would have to reinstall everything just to make it work with another mobo

​@@volo34GFX i know what you talk about. before i bought my 7700k in 2020 from ebay i had an 7600k overclocked to 4.8ghz. mostly the i5 was running very well but here and there some game and many apps nowadays depending on more that 4 threads. the 7700k does everything much faster. in games i have much more stable and higher framerates. if you can get an 7700k then buy one. you definitely will be happy with it. btw, my 7700k runs together with a 4060 and i can play Cyberpunk at ultra preset without any problems.

@@steffenlze0178 Thanks, reading that it really helps reassure me a lot. I was still doubting the decision, even tho I don't have any other option really 😂. As for the GPU, I was thinking too something along the lines of a 4060ti, possibly with 16gb since I do work with it. We'll see in the future months...

I’d honestly recommend something with a little more vram for 4k. What budget do you have?

@@tech_evolved really? well, about my budget... here in my country, those 3070ti or 3080 cards are around 550us (used), so i am considering something in that price rank

3080 is good enough. Especially with dlss support. Alternatively you could look at the 6800 xt too

Buy 3080 and you will bi fine even playing 2k

Any suggestions on overclocking the 7700k? I'm a total newb with over clocking

Ur ram is overkill tho. The I7 7700k goes up to DDR4 2400Mhz. Anything above that is overkill.

@@TheGympertnot at all, you can benefit from more hz like 3200 and so on, just make sure your motherboard allows you

​@@TheGympertnot true, there are big performance gains to be had, way beyond 2400 (diminishing returns after 3200)

say average 70fps, do you experience smooth gameplay on your 75hz monitor?

As I know it's possible to mod them to support 8/9th gens. Requires quite a bit of enthusiasm though. You could then put 8700K/9700K in there

What else is in it?

@@tech_evolvedgtx 970 but I already have a 1080. However I found a pc with i3 12100f for 200 which is cheaper and better. It also comes with a gtx 1650

I’d go with the 12100f. Leaves plenty of room for upgrade

@@tech_evolved yeah I was thinking of that seeing as it is more powerful

@@tech_evolved hey tech evolved the i3 one is not for sale but I found i5 10400f for the same price will I lose any more performance. Thanks

yo man can u tell me what games u play and do u play on low or high and what is about the average fps im about to upgrade to a 6700xt from a 1660 and for a cpu i was thinking of doing a i7-7700k but for 100$ less i can get a i7-6700k so im just wondering the fps u get kuz new setup will be similar to urs pls and TY

@@tokervince I haven't benchmarked things for a while, but I can play Horizon Zero Dawn, Shadow of the Tomb Raider, etc no problem with the settings just about cranked. I haven't had much opportunity to play for a while due to chronic physical health issues. If I have time I'll try to run some benchmarks soon

ok awesome ty@@johanbuis1369

Yes it does, i have an i7 7700 paired with a rx6700 (not the same but similar) and with very recent games my framerate in medium and ultra settings are the same

what resolution are you playing at?

1080p@@tech_evolved

@@tokervinceit’s gonna be pretty bad. I would suggest at least an i7 9700K or higher. You’re gonna need more cores to get the most of out your 6700 xt

@@FadeHook23 yea i ended up getting a i7 12700k and so far its amazing got a good deal on it for like 170$

@@FadeHook23 but yea ty very much :)

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I'm working on making them a little longer! Just take some time when scripting it all out

Any recommendations on be bloating win 10?

@@trancebass2741 When you install WIn 10m use Home or Pro N. This won't have all of the bloat. Hopefully the post above isn't another pro-Linux post from someone that doesn't have a Distro they prefer.

In the last few days here in Australia, there were a bunch of HP Z240 workstations sold off lease with 7700K, 32GB RAM and GTX1070 GPU for AUS$500. That's a pretty nice little system for the money.

thanks, but without settings or 1% lows this information is useless

You're mad because I used a GPU that wouldn't bottleneck the 7700k? Showing the full ability of a processor is apparently a bad thing...

you mean the 8100/9100f not K. K is for unlocked cpus. I'd still say a ht enable quadcore is still a quadcore by definition as threads are just a pipeline and not another physical core

maybe I'll have to test those

​@@DemonSaine By definition yes but performance in games is pretty much identical with a 8C 8T. AND 4C 4T cpus are not able to play modern games very well.

7700K is a lot slower than 9700K in games (20-30% at least). They're basically equivalents to 3600 vs 5600, slightly less productivity power than these but system latency is superior

pretty sure I didn't say that but ok. I literally said that it was a good pickup if you bought it before but looking at the market now it didn't age well. No where did I say you couldn't game. Weird comment man

@@tech_evolved literally called it vintage and said that it has no use only to remind you of the glory days someday

@@tech_evolved i bought an i7 7700k less than a month ago for 60$ and it plays any game i want to. you saying to "avoid these all together" is whats weird.

I said avoid it because am4 offers better value and upgradability. You're taking my words out of context. Listen, if you find a good deal on a product than go for it, but in general am4 will be the better investment. I'm not sure why you feel the need to justifiy your purchase in youtube comments but nice. Good for you!

So then make a fucking video about how the am4 is good not a video about how the i7 7700k is bad. the fact that ur a amd user says it all@@tech_evolved

not trying to defend a youtuber here..... but he's not wrong.... while it's possible to find a 7700k for $80usd, finding one for $80 is rather rare. $80 for a 7700k....You got lucky. But hey, about 5 years ago I scored an i5-4690k, 24GB of RAM, and a nice Maximus 7 Hero board for $60. And.... just a couple months ago my buddy bought a 5800x for $80. I've also won ebay bids on functioning hardware at unusually low prices, because no one else bid on them. It's being at the right place at the right time.

Why?

This isn't a tutorial... Also I'm not sure what you mean by 50 cores are given for free with subscription.

You make no sense.