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i5 2500k overclocked good enough for gaming over the next few years?

For gaming be more concerned about your gpu lasting a few years.

That processor no problem.

I have an i5 760 released over 2 years ago now and have no worries about it being okay for gaming for another couple of years when paired with a decent gpu.

What gpu are you running or considering purchasing?
 
Yup even more so if you slap a decent cooler on it and take it to an easy 4.5ghz or beyond
 
Sorry, but no one can say it fo 100% sure.

Nowadays, looking at todays games everyone might answer: yes.
But new generation of CPUs, Ivy Bridge-EP and EX will have 8 and 10 cores which might mean 6-8 cores for mainstream market. AMD probably is not far behind, its modular CPU structure is what me may expect from ride to cores expansion, and not exactly to GHz raise. So within 2 years we might see PCs with 8 real (12-16 by AMD) cores as a standard - what can you say then about 2500K ? It's exactly the same what you'd say today about 4/2 core CPU difference. Gaming engines are optimized for multicores more and more, so I'd expect few months to rework them to meet current market requirement, if 8-10 cores CPUs come true.

So - hopefully - it will last for long, but nobody knows, for how long exactly. Market's rule. It will became such CPU which is i3 today.. perfect overclocker to catch up with the games requirements.
 
Should last a while but I agree with biuro74, we don't know whats around the corner.

Plus we've already seen a pair of GTX680's hit a bottleneck with a reasonably clocked 2500K. That said if you game at 1080, it may be a non-issue, I personally can see the i7 9x0/25/6/700K's hanging about for a few years yet.
 
I got 4 years out of my Q6600 & hope to get the same out of my 2500k which I've had for 1 year.

There's always something new just around the corner, last time round I stuck with the Q6000 whilst seeing how the new-fangled SB chips got on before deciding to plump for a 2500k. I still think from a gamers POV an overclocked 2500k has at least a couple of years mileage in it, hopefully 3 :)
 
As cool (well...you know what I mean) as it would be, I personally don't see more than 8 cores ever hitting the mainstream market, other than as expensive workstation parts.

Long live the APU!
 
i was using a athlon a while ago and that still can play games fairly well, considering a i5 is much more powerful i would put my bet on it lasting for agesss
 
RoXoRz said:
Same here. The old girl is yet to let me down
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+1

I don't want to worry the OP but I feel more comfortable using my i7 9XX with hyperthreading for gaming in the next few years than I would a 2500k.

Having said that I think the 2500k still has plenty of life left in it.
 
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