I am wanting to upgrade either my i5 12400f to i7 14700k or upgrade my arc a750 to a 4060. Trying to see what would be a better performance bump for wow but having a hard time telling.
Thanks
CPU, if your motherboard supports Raptor, only because it has a little better single CPU clock. Both show similar benchmarks. Alder Lake only looks to run about 2.5GHz, unless overclocked and you should have 3GHz.
GPU scores.
Not sure how power hungry the GPU cards are, or what kind of power supply you have.
CPU scores.
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Awesome thank you so much! I have a rm750 and 32gb ddr5. Another option was the arc b580, but I just wasn’t sure if upgrading gpu would even affect wow as it is cpu based I hear. I will go the cpu if it will help the best for sure! Are there any other cpus I should be looking at?
Personally never shopped Intel, looks like it’s a LGA1700, not sure what Motherboard you have or what CPU it will work with. Could just need a Bios update, quite a few Ryzen will allow upgrades that way.
Thank you! Yeah I’ve updated bios already and it supports 12-14th gen intel chips.
The results on this website are heavily biased and often just flat out incorrect. I wouldn’t use this as a source for part performance.
I wouldn’t even call this an upgrade. The a750 in gaming generally performs equivalent or better than a 4060 non ti.
12400f to 14700k is a huge upgrade, but you also have to understand that processor power draw will more than double and your current heatsink may be completely insufficient to cool it adequately.
Check your motherboard makers website to see what the max processor you can get for your board is best.
If your mainboard isn’t either a Z690 / Z790 you cant unlock a K sku processor ( the 14700k) to full speed.
With latest bios sure it will work, but you wont see full performance.
Probably won’t see a difference unless you’re wanting to get into overclocking. 14700k is more readily available and going for less than the 14700. So could just be going for the k sku as a price thing.
I have an asrock b760m pro rs motherboard and I have currently a cooler master 360 aio cooler as well.
In all honesty I would not upgrade to a 13th or 14th generation Intel CPU. Their issues with them even with the updated bios
Casually wondering why you paired a 360mm aio with a 12400f
Such as?
12th gen to 13th/14th gen is the only real cpu upgrade path, short of building a new system. I guess you could go to something like the 12700k or 12900k, but the performance uplift won’t be as impactful as upgrading to 14th gen. Idk, I’m still on a 9700k which should be worse than the 12400f, but its still chugging along. Could always just wait and build a new am5 system
Between microcode updates and improvement in parts coming off the lines now, maybe this is becoming less of an issue. (Or will be as time goes on.)
He mentioned even with updated bios, so unless there are still issues not found, that won’t really apply here. I think a brand new processor starting on a bios with 0x12B microcode will probably be fine.
I’ve reflashed my bios already as well!
As for the aio I Wanted to upgrade cpu down the road and use it for future motherboard when needed! It is a weird combo at the moment. Thought about going am5 motherboard but my budget could only get me a Ryzen 5 7600x at the moment.
Even with the micro code updates and the BIOS updates. Crashing and stability issues are still a problem. Some of the issues with them cannot be fixed with microcode and bios update
The updates simply stop processors from further degradation under known conditions. Any damage that had already occurred is irreversible and Intel extended the warranty for 13th/14th gen an additional 2 years to cover that. If you have stability problems, you should be considering RMAing your processor.
A new out of the box processor would likely run fine unless it was on the shelf for a few years and was part of the run with oxidation problems.
People are still having issues even after the updates. With brand new CPU’s. Most people within 2 months of a RMA. There are a lot of reddit threads on this very issue.
I dont really consider reddit to be a reliable source of information
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It actually is if there’s enough people saying exactly the same thing. If you get one or two people saying something it’s one thing but if you have thousands of posts it’s another. Think about it like this forum you’ll instantly know if it’s a widespread issue by the number of posts about the issue. People are still having issues with them. even on this forum