Looking to upgrade, need a little advice

[Reccster]

Good Evening,

Very long time lerker, new poster.
Just looking for some advice to a potential upgrade of system for me as its been like 5 years and i want to stratch that itch and that i suspect that im nearly (if not already) CPU bottlenecked.
I do play the AAA games when i can, mostly in the last year or so of realease (Currently playing Doom Eternal, Deathloop, Destiny 2, WOW, The Witcher 3 Remaster etc..) and no doubt will be venturing into the bigger games in the near future (Cyberpunk 2077 etc..), my aim is to continue on my wide screen monitor (3440x1440p) @ 100hz.. (So 100FPS constant).

I suspect i'm close as when i do play the games, its 70+ but difficult to say if its CPU necked or that the RTX3070 is borderline.

My spec should be in my profile if i've done it right and its difficult to find videos, comparisons, reviews etc for this old of tech (i do try find 7700k or even a i3-10300) but its either 1080p, or with a 3090... so never a good comparison.

I am slightly leaning towards the 5800x3D as its reviewed very well and seems the next step, but have seen that its very hot and (i think it was a forum post on here) that it struggles with Air-cooling, needs AIO/Custom Loop to be decent..

Just thught i'd ask for i go diving head first.

Thanks

 

[Athlonite]

I'd have to say it's the CPU that's being a bottleneck here that 6700 is rather old now

A good upgrade would be the 5800x3D as long as you have decent cooling and yes even any half decent twin tower air cooler can cope with it quite fine

 

[Reccster]

I'd have to say it's the CPU that's being a bottleneck here that 6700 is rather old now

A good upgrade would be the 5800x3D as long as you have decent cooling and yes even any half decent twin tower air cooler can cope with it quite fine

This video would suggest otherwise:

Though it would be alot more active on the help, but seems a dead forum.. Will go back to lurking

 

[Hyderz]

I have a 6700k, for funzies i chucked in a 3090 for a couple of days, while average fps is great but i notice my 1% dipping into the 40s. I have the a 3440x1440 100hz monitor as well. The 3090 is in the 9900k now..

Do you have a budget in mind?
At the moment 13600k is the good value as far as cpu for gaming goes,
but you are with intel and to upgrade further you most likely need to change motherboard.

If you invest in the AM5 motherboard now, you can swap out for more powerful cpu later on.
7600x or 7700x are good cpus for gaming, with the price drop is even better these days.

 

[HD64G]

If only thing you push your CPU is gaming, for your resolution the CPU in most games isn't important. So, until you get a faster GPU stay with what you have.