i7 920/gtx 580 upgrade to i7 4790k/ gtx 970 opinions?

[onson]

I was wondering if anyone has made this upgrade or something similar and could give some feedback on how much Skyrim performance improved. My current specs are i7 920 @ 3.2, GTX 580 3gb, 12 g ram, SSD. I run Real Vision Enb with pretty standard texture upgrades, grids to load @ 7. My system is pretty stable, gameplay is 40 fps for the most part, although I get occasional stutter. So I'm curious if an upgrade to i7 4790k/GTX 970 would be significant for Skyrim. Anyone have experience on such an upgrade?

[notmyhome]

An i7 is a waste of money if you're only going to use it for gaming. An i5 offers the same performance for significantly less.

[onson]

You are right about that part. In single threaded programs the i7 4790k is only 3% faster than an i5 4670k, yet costs 30% more. As far as I know Skyrim isn't optimized for more than one thread. The I7 4790k is 67% faster than a i7 920. This is why I am wondering what real world performance would be like.

[Reynard131]

You are right about that part. In single threaded programs the i7 4790k is only 3% faster than an i5 4670k, yet costs 30% more. As far as I know Skyrim isn't optimized for more than one thread. The I7 4790k is 67% faster than a i7 920. This is why I am wondering what real world performance would be like.

 

 

 

I would stay with the 920 and just get the card... Save the cash..

[Kanirod]

I DID this upgrade 3 month ago, i now have i7-4790k + 8GB Ram running at 1600mhz+ gtx970 G1 gaming+SSD crucial 250g mx100+Msi gaming G5. Nothing overclocked yet.

Im running around 190 esp/esm + all texture mod possible (in 4k when available)+parallax (for a total of more than 250 mods). All major lighting mod (alterning between Relighting skyrim and ELFX depending of my mood)

I run some heavy scripted mod but not a lot because i prefer mod that add content than mod overhauling everything.

I run all JK city overhaul.

I run a lot of quest/dungeon mod with all big ones (wyrmtooth, falksaar etc..)

All of that on a 24" IPS asus screen at 1080p

Im running "Somber 3" best quality preset with enb with latest 0.265, enboost, texture sizescale down to 0.6 (defaut 1) and fps limiter enable at 40 fps coz it's enough for me

Most of my mod are cleaned but im not a big specialist of this

Everything sorted with Loot

Nothing merged.

Texture are optimized with text optimizer 8.3 at medium preset.

i 'm with uGridload 5. never tried uGridLoad 7

I recently resolved my CTD problem by removing safetyload and optimizing my SKSE setting and memory blocks

skyrim in ULTRA

TL;DR my Skyrim look like exactly the same as screenshot from Somber 3 author, very beautifull and detailled

 

So, for the performance:

Occasional stutter as you mentionned and im most of the time at the 40 fps limit with in few occasion a drop at 28 fps.

No FPS drops in combat, even with followers and bandits group with mage, already did skirmish of 10 characters without issues

I tried without limiter but fps still around 45 outside and 50-55 inside or 35 inside when heavy lightning.

Loading time is very acceptable with only rare freeze (1 in 3h of gaming?)

with somber 3 texture sizscale at 1 i was 28-35 fps, diminishing at 0.6 rised my fps to the 40 limit without any noticiable quality loss.

 

Hope it will help you, can't be more precise except by posting my load order

Edited January 29, 2015 by Kanirod

[onson]

What were your previous system specs? Did you feel like the upgrade was worth it? The funny thing about Skyrim is no matter how powerful a machine you have, enough modding can bring it to its knees. I'm thinking about just upgrading to a gtx970, and seeing what the difference is . I can always upgrade the rest later.

[VileTouch]

you ARE aware that the 970 have only 3.5gb of usable vram REGARDLESS of what says on the tin right?

 

on the cpu, well... see for yourself

 

and NO it's NOT a waste of money, because you don't buy a new computer to play one single game! that's a ridiculous premise.

Edited February 1, 2015 by VileTouch

[tejano2828]

I have the I7 920 with a GTX 570 replaced it with a GTX 670 FTW and then finally upgraded to another system and put a GTX 780 with the 920 big difference but occassional stutter....

 

Upgraded yesterday to I7 4770K with a GTX 980 been testing the system and stressing it and it's doing Great!! stutter is all gone not even micro stuttering...was noticing that my Vram was being taxed out at 3.1 which is the limit of the 780 with the GTX 980 it's using 3.2 and 3.4 which tells me that the game was throttling back on the GTX 780 which was causing stutters hitching but it's all gone...the 970 is a great Card they are releasing drivers to fully unlock it ME I am fortunate to have a good job so I always go for the higher Card but yah make the switch OH and get an SSD makes a big difference

[onson]

I have been reading about the 970 vram issues. I'll wait and see how that plays out before I buy one. I thought of going with a 980 hydrocopper series, since that's what my 580 is, but I'm not sure if the price to performance is worth it.

[Boombro]

What about the new x960? Any news or benchmarks about it? The 4 gba version should come out soon.