cpu vs ssd

[marcuseralius]

ok currently i have a i7 4770,bethesda reccomends the i75820 or better for the new hi res,my question is ...is the i7 7700k better than the i7 5820 ? and also i currently have a 1.5 TB hard drive,i was thinking of swapping that out for a 1TB SSD,besides improving loading times will that help in the momentary freezes or occasional stutters in game,or will thr swapping of the cpu be enough?oh and i have the gtx1070 gpu.thank you in advance:]

[DownBeatBeatDown]

Honestly, unless you're overclocking your cpu to the maximum, the 7700k is only an ever so slight side(up)grade to your 4770. Haswell doesn't clock to the moon as well, true, but that hardly matters to 99.999% of all users. Bear in mind, most arch revisions account for new instruction set increases in efficiency. They don't tend to let you know, those instruction set's will be years if not decades before they're leveraged in mainstream programming. As such, a good portion of the "performance increase" is marketing smoke & mirrors.

 

 

You wouldn't be hard pressed if you were flexing a 5 Ghz Sandy Bridge quad, or my now defunct 4.9 Ghz 3770k. Although with newer games beginning to utilize more cores, the 5820 wouldn't be a bad investment. Aside from it's lack of pci-e lanes, that is. However, that only matters if you're running SLI/Crossfire + an nvme or pci-e ssd. In which case, the non-pci-e gimped 5930k enthusiast chips would do fine. Frankly, Intel's been milking the last drop out of the consumers more than a bit ever since Sandy was planned to go EOL.

 

 

Also, system spec's are generally full of it. Most dev's have not the slightest clue about hardware, and I don't program. :tongue: I suspect a decent portion are shilling for hardware manufacturers. One hand washes the other, and all it entails.

 

 

Occasional stutters are almost always due to a lack of reserved, or not enough vram. Take a look & you'll notice when the stutter happens, it usually occurs when LOD's load, or weather cycles change. SSD's will help with load times sure, but it will not cure stuttering. I should know, I've been running ssd's since 2009 (OCZ Vertex's popped my cherry), and my now vintage raid 0 set of Sammy 840 Pro's are still nearly as fast as almost anything new on the market in the civilian sector this side of nvme. Not that I'm counseling you to avoid ssd's, anything but in fact. Get one, two even for RAID. Even one of my old 1st gen Vertex's will smoke my HDTZ Velociraptor in every performance metric, except storage capacity. :wink:

 

Also, stick with MLC equipped SSD's (SLC if you can afford it). Toggle NAND is some unreliable junk purely marketed to people that don't know any better. The high side of 3k w/e cycles will never be enough for it to be considered anything but a toy in my book. Pretty much exactly why I don't get rid of my 840's, nothing better out there as of yet durability/reliability wise without spending a literal fortune.

 

 

Edit: In case I wasn't clear, pop the top on your 4770 & get rid of the crap TIM job Intel did. Replace it with Coolabratory Liquid Pro or better, drop a custom water cooling loop on it, and try to hit 4.8 Ghz. That's your least expensive, and best option for the added performance.

Edited March 8, 2017 by DownBeatBeatDown

[marcuseralius]

I don't have the 4770k, I can't overclock it:(

[bmt12]

Occasional stutters are almost always due to a lack of reserved, or not enough vram. Take a look & you'll notice when the stutter happens, it usually occurs when LOD's load, or weather cycles change. SSD's will help with load times sure, but it will not cure stuttering. I should know, I've been running ssd's since 2009 (OCZ Vertex's popped my cherry), and my now vintage raid 0 set of Sammy 840 Pro's are still nearly as fast as almost anything new on the market in the civilian sector this side of nvme. Not that I'm counseling you to avoid ssd's, anything but in fact. Get one, two even for RAID. Even one of my old 1st gen Vertex's will smoke my HDTZ Velociraptor in every performance metric, except storage capacity. :wink:

 

 

Vintage? I still have a 830 purring along in my computer.

 

Still more beautiful than anything they've made since too.

Edited March 11, 2017 by bmt12

[jones177]

Hi

Yes an SSD makes for a smoother experience.

I made the mistake of going from 1tb WD Raptor to a 5 tb black. My older saves were unplayable with stutter. I put my game on a 1tb ssd & they were playable again.

 

I would not bother with the Hires pack.
My GTX 1080 is hooked up to a 3440 X 1440 monitor. With the pack installed I don't notice the difference unless I am about a foot away from the object. It did not cause frame rate lose but it did cause "brown head" on my modded settlers.

 

The pack does look much better at 4k but my GTX 980 ti SLI rig is not powerful enough to run it. I will try again later this year when I replace the 980 tis with a 1080 ti.

 

Your CPU core strength will determine the severity of the drops in the game.

The drops are less severe with my i7 6700k than my i7 2600k.

 

Later

[mkr1977]

Get 128gb of Ram and start RAM DISK gaming. You won't regret it.