Currently needing an upgrade to my system, my i5 3570K cannot handle the CPU intensity of BF1 and is bottlenecking my GPU tremendously. I will only buy intel but I am not in the loop of technology right now. I was looking at a i7 6700K 4.0 GHz unlocked quad core processor, 350$ on amazon. You think that will be fine for BF1 and future games? I currently cannot STAND the throttling and bottlenecking when I play BF1 and I forgot that was the reason I stopped playing the game in the first place. I really just want my system to work flawless, but I have always had issues with it since I built it and partly not strong enough equipment was installed. So just need your guys opinions unless there is a different i7 bridge I should go with. I will not go back to an i5, its not enough for gaming and doesn't last as long as other peoples i7s do. 

You're gonna need a new MB in order to support that chip.  Its gotta be an 1151 socket and you have to use a Z170 chipset.  If you're going to replace motherboard and chip then I say go for it but if you wanna be future proof for a bit look into 6 cores or greater.  The 6700k only has 16 PCIe lanes which will be used mostly by the gfx.  However if anything else uses PCIe in any way it will use some of those lanes causing the card to drop to 8x instead of 16x.  While this really isn't a problem unless your going SLI in the future you want to build a PC with headroom.  Having more than what is needed at the time allows the system to accommodate more demand if it occurs.  I recently retired an old 980X I had for 6 years didn't need that much power at the time but it came in handy when games started demanding more from the CPU.  These new cards from NVidia are quite demanding and you need a beefy system to run them to their fullest.  I rebuilt most of my system recently to a 6900k the new one with 8 cores 64GB of RAM and an X99 motherboard.  Granted I'm still using a 960 GTX 4GB of VRAM but I had this card in my old system and I got a flat 30 fps across all titles because the board and cpu were bottle necking it.  Stick with i7 if you can and look into Broadwell-E architecture if you can.  6 cores or more will give you some future proofing.  I know you said you like Intel and most gamers do maybe give it a bit and see what AMD comes out with. Then see how Intel reacts with their pricing to combat AMDs new flagship.  Also Intel's new architecture is debuting soon so that would mean a price drop across the board as well.  

 

In summary wait for a bit and see what pricing does and what new tech comes then make your decision.  If you need it now look for Broadwell-E if you can.

What Ding said. Also reading up on what the current "tweaks" can deliver is helpful. I know we discussed this online yesterday but I'm still running a 3770k on a MSI Z77 main board designed for gaming and 16Gb of Ripjaw. Until recently I was using a GTX 660 with 2Gb of RAM and had a couple of issues but not much. Now Im running a GTX 1060 with 4Gb of RAM and my system runs smooth as silk. The only place I ever see a stutter is on the End of Round boars when the battle packs drop. The crate gets a bit jumpy but honestly I just dont care about that and I have no idea why thats animation is buggy when I play at a solid 60-80 FPS during the game. 

Yes i was going to buy a new ASUS board for the CPU. Currently have a gigabyte board and ive heard some bad things about gigabyte boards being crap. Ill look into the 6 cores, i have a 1070 FTW and it should be performing far better but the CPU is straining so much, its even over clocked a tad, that it wont process enough. Ill see what AMD has, but AMD is so different than what i know ill probably stick with an intel.

 

Netrngr you have the same gen processor except being an i7 and i was reading online that is what makes the whole difference. The i5 is decent but the i7 will last you much longer. Axle is still running a first gen i7 i believe also correct?

 

 

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I "think" so. Not sure. As we said last night beware the 6700k. There are folks with BeastMode machines running this proc that are having a lot of issues. What i've read is it may be related to the Math Coproc.

Meh, I have a 4770k with 16gb ripjaws, and a 1070 FTW...... I can run everything on Ultra no problems at all, even when I had my 970 I could run it all on Ultra   I love my i7, but I soon will be looking to move to the new ROG STRIX X99 Gaming MB and the  Intel  2011-v3 Core i7 X-Series Processor