Is the 6600k still a good cpu?

Just curious bcuz I upgraded to it about a couple of months ago

Yes its good. Its over 4x faster than the consoles CPU. Intel CPU's haven't really gotten much faster clock for clock.

There's people that are still running 2nd and 3rd generation i5/i7 processors and are still running present games fine, especially those that have given them a little bit of an overclock to match the speeds of the current gen.

Yes very good!

Yes. Every i5 from the 3*** series up is still more than enough for gaming and will give little to no bottleneck. I'm using a 4670k with a 1080 Ti with no issue at all.

If you dont game on 144hz monitor(and even on those its just few games) it's more than fine

At what RAM speed? You might gain something by increasing it if you are at 1600MHz.

Little to no difference for gaming.

that's not totally accurate, on some games it's quite noticeable, like with 6500 on 2666mhz vs 3200mhz you can see up to 10fps difference on witcher 3(source), other games may not be as much.

But again if you arent playing above 60fps this doesn't matter either

I believe CPU heavier games earns more from faster ram in general.

So you are saying that DDR3 RAM or DDR4 RAM make no difference to gaming ?

Honest question, because I'm still using DDR3 RAM.

Its not a drastic difference and with very few games will you see a difference especially at higher resolutions.

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Still using my old 4670, I see no reason why 6600K which can OC would be bad.

@Commiesdie: yes it is still a good cpu. better than my x4 860k and fx 8350

What I wanted was for people to be aware that faster RAM does help some.

So it seems like these days, that if you want better performance in games or prettier graphics (at <1440p or <4K resolutions) all you really need to change is your graphics card.

Which I just did btw.

But how will I ever know if it's time to fully upgrade my PC because my i7 4790K or DDR3 RAM starts bottlenecking ?

Well the only way to know is to stay informed... Many youtube channels around dedicated to PC performance bench marking along with websites.

That being said the GPU VRAM is what's predominantly going to be used during gaming, going from DDR3 to DDR4 has many benefits out side of gaming but with games... Its very rare and only under certain parameter is it actually going to give you a noticeable boost in performance.

Console's usually are what pushes hardware spec's forward and with the use of more cores in this current generation this could be the last generation where a CPU with 4 cores is going to cutting... Maybe, know one really knows.

Everything helps to some degree and based on the game and engine used performance varies. Its just that CPU and system RAM are very rarely a bottleneck VRAM amount, Memory Bandwidth and GPU horse power usually are.

For Example a i5 with a GTX 1080 with 8GB DDR3 vs a i7 with a GTX 1070 with 16GB DDR4 pretty much 99% of the time the first build will out perform the other in gaming. Of course if both had the same GPU you would see a difference in SOME games but not enough to justify the price difference.

Everything has a price/performance ratio and DDR4 3400 RAM giving you a 5-10% performance boost but only in a few games at lower resolutions... Your not going to spend $200 on RAM and get a 1080p screen.