Looking for CPU upgrade advice (possibly from the devs themselves)

_Tilly-Tony_

_Tilly-Tony_
At the moment i have an i5 10600k and a RTX3070.
Im CPU bottlenecked in PC2 and im looking at upgrading my CPU so i can have more guests in my park.

I can upgrade to a 10th gen i9 or an 11th gen i9 without having to change motherboards.

My question is, which would be better for this game? A 10 core 20 thread i9 10900k or an 8 core 16 thread i9 11900k?
 

Ozric

Volunteer Moderator
Ozric
Honestly, if it were me, neither. I'm not sure they're worth the upgrade price https://cpu.userbenchmark.com/Compare/Intel-Core-i5-10600K-vs-Intel-Core-i9-10900K/4072vs4071
1745830094515.png


I personally run AMD, the X3D range are far better than intel chips. Obviously the downside is you're on an intel board, so you would need to upgrade Motherboard as well. I'd save up and go for an AM5 socket one and get either the Ryzen 7 7800X3D or 9800X3D.

The 7800X3D is £30 more than the 10900k and 23% better
 

_Tilly-Tony_

_Tilly-Tony_
Anything other that an lga1200 will require a new motherboard.
Im trying to keep the price down as much as possible so i can try and get a 3080ti too.
I will be buying the parts second hand also as these chips are getting a bit old and are hard to find new.
 

GroG79

G
The i9-11900K would be the fastest your socket can support. Perhaps you can find one in your area.

Depending the resolution and framerate you are playing on there is not much different between a 3070 and a 3080Ti
 

_Tilly-Tony_

_Tilly-Tony_
I play at 1440p and have an 180hz monitor but only really care about getting 60fps.

The thing is, as soon as i get to around the 4k guests mark, my GPU utilisation starts to drop and i start dropping bellow 60fps as the GPU starts having to wait on the CPU.

The main reason i want to upgrade my GPU also, is for more Vram.
 

BigDragon

BigDragon
_Tilly-Tony_ said:
My question is, which would be better for this game? A 10 core 20 thread i9 10900k or an 8 core 16 thread i9 11900k?
Click to expand...
The 11900K has higher per-core performance leading to overall better performance. However, the 10900K is not that far behind, so the difference in price between the two of them matters. You can see benchmark comparisons between your current CPU and the two options at this cpubenchmark.net link. Both options are a significant upgrade from what you're using now.

Before deciding to buy a new CPU, make sure your computer is optimized. If there are a thousand icons in your system tray / notification area, then that probably means there's a lot of craplets running in the background stealing performance. Turn off anything that's not essential. Many of my friends who have complained about computer performance in the past were running garbage like multiple file sync solutions, multiple virus scanners, apps they saw youtubers promoting, several game launchers, and speed launchers for everything. You do not need a lot of background garbage stealing performance.
 

Ramm

Ramm
I like AMD more these days, I use a 9900x because of multi tasking benefits 12cores over the x3d which only has 8 and its also much cheaper while not even that much slower
 

_Tilly-Tony_

_Tilly-Tony_
BigDragon said:
The 11900K has higher per-core performance leading to overall better performance. However, the 10900K is not that far behind, so the difference in price between the two of them matters. You can see benchmark comparisons between your current CPU and the two options at this cpubenchmark.net link. Both options are a significant upgrade from what you're using now.

Before deciding to buy a new CPU, make sure your computer is optimized. If there are a thousand icons in your system tray / notification area, then that probably means there's a lot of craplets running in the background stealing performance. Turn off anything that's not essential. Many of my friends who have complained about computer performance in the past were running garbage like multiple file sync solutions, multiple virus scanners, apps they saw youtubers promoting, several game launchers, and speed launchers for everything. You do not need a lot of background garbage stealing performance.
Click to expand...
I dont have unnecessary background processes.
My Pc runs the game very well for the hardware i have.

BigDragon said:
The 11900K has higher per-core performance leading to overall better performance. However, the 10900K is not that far behind, so the difference in price between the two of them matters. You can see benchmark comparisons between your current CPU and the two options at this cpubenchmark.net link. Both options are a significant upgrade from what you're using now.

Before deciding to buy a new CPU, make sure your computer is optimized. If there are a thousand icons in your system tray / notification area, then that probably means there's a lot of craplets running in the background stealing performance. Turn off anything that's not essential. Many of my friends who have complained about computer performance in the past were running garbage like multiple file sync solutions, multiple virus scanners, apps they saw youtubers promoting, several game launchers, and speed launchers for everything. You do not need a lot of background garbage stealing performance.
Click to expand...
Im looking at pgrading as cheap as possible. So i dont want to replace my motherboard.
 

Digler

D
Just buy the best you can afford. Focus on CPU strength and then GPU strength. Try to remember that with a strong core, you can upgrade everything else. So MB first, CPU, GPU, RAM...in that order. You do not need an expensive MB; you only need one that supports what you want. Just make sure it is upgradeable.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top Bottom