Yeah fluent, listen to @you;, get an i5 and donate the rest of the money. As a matter of fact don’t get anything. Give all the money to charity, then sell your current computer and donate that. Dont stop there give any money you make that you don’t need for food, clothing and shelter to charity as well. So easy to be altruistic with others lives and money. :lol:
Or buy what you want. You want an i9 9900 then get it. Games are going to start using more cores, they already have. When new consoles come out with even more cores then PCs will need to follow suit.
It is true that if you're playing games today at 1440p or higher even 1080p in many case you’re not going to see much difference in cpu performance because games are gpu limited. So what you need to do is find benchmarks that aren’t gpu limited. This is achieved by either lowering resolution or game settings. When you go down to 720p or set a game to low settings you aren’t gpu limited then and can see the difference the cpus make. As is shown here.
https://www.dsogaming.com/news/first-third-party-gaming-benchmarks-released-for-the-intel-core-i9-9900k-and-intel-core-i7-9700k/
If you look at the f1 benchmark You’re see that there actually almost 70fps difference between the 4790 cpu you were told you need and the 9900. That’s a huge difference. You’re not going to run at 720p or low setting though, so why do these benchmarks matter? They matter because they help you see how much better the cpus will be when future video cards are released and the cpu has room to scale with the gpu. It does look like hyperthreading doesn’t help at all and may even hurt as the i7 7900 bests the 9900. So you could save a little there if you want.
Imo, there’s no such thing as overkill when it comes to building a pc. no matter how fast you build it it will be too slow eventually. If you save money now you’ll ll need to upgrade sooner. Beside if you buy the 9900 or 9700 and don’t need it you be a some cash and have a cpu that way overpowered and lasts you for several years. Oh , the horror.
Can’t help you with wether or not your setup will run skyrim from with mods as I have the gpu and vr headset but not the game. However I would think it would. You can always just add mods one at a time until you hit your target FPS.
