Gaming at 1440P

I'm rolling it with a 1080 and I'll sometimes notice sudden frame drop and stutter in cpu intensive titles like GTA 5 and starcraft 2. And it seems to be pegged at 100% in plenty of other games so i can't help but feel like it's holding back some precious frames from me.

Normally I wouldn't upgrade a single generations because the IPC gains are only going to be like 5%. But since my motherboard would support it. I feel like the hyperthreading would help immensly in a few titles.


I have the 6600k at 4.5ghz now btw

Do those games make use of hyperthreading? I was under the impression very few games do.

Very few do right now. You're right.

GTA 5 is one of them that shows a pretty hefty improvement. It also happens to be one I play quite often.

Most other games it probably won't do shit.

most titles dont use hyper-threading lol

Not sure why you just re-posted what he just said...







Games are starting to move towards being able to utilize more cpu cores, Especially with Dx12 starting to pop up in games. Which allows devs to use more cores / gpu's easier / more efficiently.

must of not read well ill put my glasses on next time.

Seems like my 8 core is master race

Yeah I'm feeling like a i7 will be a lot more future ready with dx12 titles coming out in the next few years

Literally
Wasting your time
Literally won't ever
Notice a diff
Literally the stutter
Isn't from pc unless u got
Some issues

this

6600k w/ 1080 getting frame drops in sc2/gtaV isn't because you got an i5 instead of i7.