Just got a DK2 - CPU advise please

mGtRd · Apr 24, 2017

Hi all

after playing the game on my 3D tv with active glasses (SBS) well...I got ...hooked ( thats an understatement) as the game appeared and felt so much different . So I started looking at the rift since so many use it and found a new DK2 on ebay for £100. I dont want to overspent for a CV1 or better in case the experiense is different to what i expect. Anyway it should be with me tomorrow.

Now, from what I read in the forum my CPU doesnt appear to be strong enough so i need your advise.

Current set up - runing the game at 80-120 fps constantly all settings maxed out (2.3 update) except from the occasional fps drops in a station

- CPU G3258 3.2GHZ anniversary edition / socket LGA-1150 not overclocked
- Samsung SSD
- Zotac 1060 6gb GDDR5 / Not overclocked
- 8gb ram Corsair Vengeance 1600MHz DDR3 CL9 XMP

As i said above the game currently maxed out run like a charm no complaints.

So what short of intel LGS-1150 CPUs exactly should I be looking at i5s or i7s which i can get away with to play it nicelly ? budget i would say £200-250 somewhere around there. Please bare in mind i only use it for ED and rarely for any other game so i just need a CPU to run ED/dk2 mainly.

Any advise will be appreciated and thanks in advance

ZeroAi · Apr 24, 2017

Good morning mGtRd,

In December I built an i7 (gen 6) with a GTX1070 and when my i7 died I replaced it with an i5 as I waited for the warranty replacement on the i7, and I honestly did not notice any difference with my Rift/CV1 playing on VR ultra or Ultra not in VR.

That said, I didn't do any bench-marking so this feedback isn't very scientific, but for anyone who can't afford the extra $200 for the i7 my experience was the i5 works very well with Elite and VR when teamed up with an GTX 1070.

Ashnak · Apr 24, 2017

With the GTX 1060, the GPU will be the bottleneck. I'm running a 1080 )not modified) and an i5 4690k (Asus MB, oc'ed to 4.2 GHz) and in this combination, the CPU rarely (at least when I remember to glance at the task manager) throttles. In most cases, it's running around 70%.

dayrth · Apr 24, 2017

I recently set up a DK2 on mine. I'm running an i7 6th gen and a gtx 970. I can run ED on VR high settings with HMD quality ramped up a little with no problems. I suspect you could use a lower spec CPU with a better graphics card. I have heard good things about the i5's

mGtRd · Apr 24, 2017

So an i5 4690K will do the job with the rest of my set up ?

Edit: I tried the "test your PC for VR" tool from Oculus and the only issue i got was for the CPU , the GPU got the green light so would it be the bottleneck with an i54690K ?

dape · Apr 24, 2017

mGtRd said:
So an i5 4690K will do the job with the rest of my set up ?

Edit: I tried the "test your PC for VR" tool from Oculus and the only issue i got was for the CPU , the GPU got the green light so would it be the bottleneck with an i54690K ?

I would go for the 4690K. Make sure your Mobo has overclocking features. If it does, get a good aircooler like the be quiet dark rock 3. If not go for the non K CPU.

THE BLOB · Apr 24, 2017

I will vouch for the i5 4690k mine is overclocked to 4.6 and sits 70/80% with my 1080 slightly higher but no issues with the cpu at all

Rob

mGtRd · Apr 24, 2017

Thanks all it looks like its the 4690k then

Happy days!

dayrth · Apr 25, 2017

Let us know how it goes and best of luck

mGtRd · Apr 25, 2017

dayrth said:
Let us know how it goes and best of luck

Will do many thanks and by the way I went for the i7 4790k as I found a nice deal on Amazon

(£290)

buyback · Apr 25, 2017

If you like to experiment and the build is only for gaming I would recommend an i5-5675C (or better the I7 5775C if you can afford) as long as you can find one as it was discontinued and a bit exotic.
Runs very cool and beats all other 1150 / and most other socket CPUs in gaming easily due to the unique 128MB L4 Cache it has.

You would need to check if your motherboard has bios support for it and definitely check some online threads for that MB and the Cpu before as you could end up having issues with speedstep crashing and overclocking on some MB/old BIOSes without updated microcodes.

I did also change from an G3258 (OCed to 4.4) to a 5675C (OCed to 4.1) on a R290
The G3258 two cores were not enough for Elite Dangerous - it seems to require 4 cores as the cpu load was jumping to 100% for me regularly. That was 2015 though.

mGtRd · Apr 25, 2017

buyback said:
If you like to experiment and the build is only for gaming I would recommend an i5-5675C (or better the I7 5775C if you can afford) as long as you can find one as it was discontinued and a bit exotic.
Runs very cool and beats all other 1150 / and most other socket CPUs in gaming easily due to the unique 128MB L4 Cache it has.

You would need to check if your motherboard has bios support for it and definitely check some online threads for that MB and the Cpu before as you could end up having issues with speedstep crashing and overclocking on some MB/old BIOSes without updated microcodes.

I did also change from an G3258 (OCed to 4.4) to a 5675C (OCed to 4.1) on a R290
The G3258 two cores were not enough for Elite Dangerous - it seems to require 4 cores as the cpu load was jumping to 100% for me regularly. That was 2015 though.

Thanks for the input , I ordered the i7 4790k @4ghz last night so i am hoping this will be a good enough upgrade