What better processors can I upgrade to, with this motherboard?

[CompanyofHeroes_thankSpielberg]

This is my motherboard, information is provided by CPU-Z:

Manufacturer: LENOVO
Model: 3704 40700 WIN 32581484
Chipset: Intel Coffee Lake Rev: 07
Southbridge: Intel B360 Rev: 10
LPCIO: ITE IT8613

I don't understand most of this information, but I am posting it in case it is useful.

This is part of a Lenovo T530 desktop, current processor is i5-9400, at 2.9 Ghz

I would like to know what faster processor I can upgrade to.

[_I_]

most likely, i5/i7/i9 9xxx, k/f/kf
k will have higher stock clocks but the mobo will not allow overclocking

[r.linder]

Why do you think you need to upgrade your CPU? The 9400F is better than the Ryzen 5 2600 in most situations.

[CompanyofHeroes_thankSpielberg]

Oh, just for future reference, like in 3 years.

We are in 2019. GTX 1050 and 1050Ti came out in 2016, 3 years ago. They were top of the line (among affordable cards) 3 years ago. Therefore, it is my estimate that my current graphics card (GTX 1660Ti), which came out in February of this year, and is top of the line among affordable cards, will also be obsolete 3 years from now.

In 3 years, the games may have advanced to a degree that I also need to upgrade my CPU. Already, Ready or Not (a successor to the SWAT series) is recommending i5-7600k for their game. That's rather close to the i5-9400 I am having. By the time i5-9400 becomes the "recommended settings", then my CPU will begin to count as slow.

[Wichtelman]

gtx 1050 ti was never top of the line and always a bad buy except if you are psu limited...

in 3 years you can think about upgrading with new tech out...

[L37]

1050/1050Ti is low-end. Take 1080/1080Ti from same generation and surprisingly it is still very close to the top.
With CPU-s it's even worse - take any quad core sandy/ivy bridge CPU and you can play any modern game with it.
New models appear in requirements simply because that's what's possible to buy now (and it would be a pain to test games with all old HW), not because older ones are not enough.
If nothing changes and current extremely slow progress in terms of CPU/GPU performance continues your CPU will be fine for another 10 years or something...

[Snow]

Orthodox Christian님이 먼저 게시:

Oh, just for future reference, like in 3 years.

We are in 2019. GTX 1050 and 1050Ti came out in 2016, 3 years ago. They were top of the line (among affordable cards) 3 years ago. Therefore, it is my estimate that my current graphics card (GTX 1660Ti), which came out in February of this year, and is top of the line among affordable cards, will also be obsolete 3 years from now.

In 3 years, the games may have advanced to a degree that I also need to upgrade my CPU. Already, Ready or Not (a successor to the SWAT series) is recommending i5-7600k for their game. That's rather close to the i5-9400 I am having. By the time i5-9400 becomes the "recommended settings", then my CPU will begin to count as slow.

Actually, NVidia cards were last time best of the line among affordable ones back when 750 Ti came out, and not for long as well.

[Ruse]

Unless you have money burning a hole in your pocket. There's zero reasons to upgrade. You probably won't even notice the difference in FPS. Your 1% lows at best will improve. This is assuming you're stuck at 1080p, 60hz.

Orthodox Christian님이 먼저 게시:

In 3 years, the games may have advanced to a degree that I also need to upgrade my CPU. Already, Ready or Not (a successor to the SWAT series) is recommending i5-7600k for their game. That's rather close to the i5-9400 I am having. By the time i5-9400 becomes the "recommended settings", then my CPU will begin to count as slow.

You can't compare recommendations like that. A i5-7600k is a four core CPU, you have a six core. With that said there's about a ~3% difference comparing only four cores of your cpu. Yours comes out on top if it wasn't obvious. As I mentioned, unless you have money burning a hole in your pocket, there's no reason to upgrade. Wait until the new consoles come out, wait a year for optimizations to buff out and see how well PCs handle the ports. If your PC isn't getting the desired frames you want anymore, then you should upgrade.

[TehSpoopyKitteh]

_I_님이 먼저 게시:

most likely, i5/i7/i9 9xxx, k/f/kf
k will have higher stock clocks but the mobo will not allow overclocking

The KF as it turns out will have better compatibility with the motherboard if it’s not a Z390 chipset.

@OP: Be warned about used 9900’s. They’re in short supply brand new, and there are a lot of fakes floating around. My workplace’s incident with the fake 9900’s that turned out to be Celeron processors should serve as a warning.

[r.linder]

TehSpoopyKitteh님이 먼저 게시:

_I_님이 먼저 게시:

most likely, i5/i7/i9 9xxx, k/f/kf
k will have higher stock clocks but the mobo will not allow overclocking

The KF as it turns out will have better compatibility with the motherboard if it’s not a Z390 chipset.

@OP: Be warned about used 9900’s. They’re in short supply brand new, and there are a lot of fakes floating around. My workplace’s incident with the fake 9900’s that turned out to be Celeron processors should serve as a warning.

It's just common sense... There are far too few reasons to be selling a 9900K/KF/KS when it's the most powerful CPU that Intel has to offer to mainstream consumers.

[Bad 💀 Motha]

9900KS is fetching up to around 1200$usd due to shortages, that's why

[r.linder]

Bad 💀 Motha님이 먼저 게시:

9900KS is fetching up to around 1200$usd due to shortages, that's why

At that point you're literally better off buying a 3900X (or 3950X), or even any of the upcoming TRX40 HEDT chips. I wouldn't even take the chance buying second hand because most of the time it's just going to be a fake.

[Bad 💀 Motha]

I would never buy those. But I wouldn't mind reselling if it's fetching that kind of money. Like I did with getting a couple Vega64 hybrid gpus and the prices shot up overnight due to restocking issues. I made some good money by turning those around quick.