CPU and MOBO upgrade advice please!

John7

I’m currently running an i5 Skylake and now getting more into video editing (1080 and 4K) and photo editing so thinking that I need to go i7 for the benefit of hyper threading. i’m Also out of touch with the latest tech re CPU’s and MOBO’s.

I’m running a 2k monitor and have a gtx 1070 gpu. I only really play battlefield, so gaming is not a major concern.

Would upgrading the CPU to a Coffee lake i7 with associate MOBO (hoping the Skylake RAM will be re-usable) be a worthwhile upgrade or should I just hang on for a newer gen CPU?

All thoughts and opinions welcomed, thanks

EndlessWaves

Obviously with your current newish high end CPU you can't expect huge performance jumps. A top of the range model might just deliver twice the performance, if your video editing software can use the extra cores (a big if).

I wouldn't call that a particularly big jump personally but how much it's worth it to you depends on how much you value your time.

If your current system DDR4 or DDR3L? Skylake supported both.

MarkE19

I agree with EW, you should see an upgrade in performance but it is unlikely to be a massive one.
I do video editing and upgraded from a Sandy Bridge to Coffee Lake i7 system and also went from onboard graphics to using a GTX1060 and I did see a fairly good improvement. Your upgrade will be smaller but I went from an i7 to i7 so you are likely (software permitting) to see a benefit going from an i5 to i7 as hyper threading can speed up rendering a fair bit (again emphasising that it is software dependent).

Mark.

John7

Thanks for the comments. Currently running with 16gb DDR 4.

I use Lightroom, Photoshop and Premiere Pro.