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2500 to 3750k?

MartynB85

MartynB85

MartynB85

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Hi guys
I'm thinking of doing a mobo and CPU upgrade. I currently have a 2500 (non k) and a crappy motherboard. Will I see much of a performance boost if I upgrade to a new IB i5 3570k and a decent motherboard? Obviously i'd oc as much as possible with a decent hsf.

I already have a 7850 and 8gb ram, I would also get a couple of new ssd's to run my 2 installs of windows...

Rig is mostly used to play DayZ and BF3.

Cheers

Edit: I should have put 3570k
 
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To be honest you don't need to upgrade at all considering even at stock clocks, the 2500 will still pack adequate power to play CPU intensive games such as Battlefield 3. It would be a waste of money just for a small increase in performance that won't really affect performance in games considering you would likely be running high FPS with the 2500 anyway and few FPS won't make much of a difference.
 
The thing is that I have an opportunity to upgrade now that I may not have again for a year or so. Also my current motherboard doesn't support sata 3 so I am not going to get the full performance from a good ssd.
 
I'm running a 2500k since launch, and haven't OCed yet (yes I know that's asking for a slap around these parts, but I like the fact it barely hits 55 on load!), because it is more than fast enough for BF3/any game at stock, but if you feel the need now, and have the money 'spare' then it may be worth the outlay for you.
The SATA issue is completely seperate, but in that case maybe consider a MoBo upgrade and stick with the 2500 for now (you'll still be able to OC by a few multi's anyway!)

personally, If I was gonna spend that kind of money myself, I'd look at maybe upgrading the MoBo, and crossfiring the 7850, which would give you a far bigger boost in a lot of games (especially BF3, which supports multi GPU well) than the minor CPU upgrade would*

*assuming your current 7850 is the 2GB model, not 1GB, and that your PSU can handle the extra ~130W
 
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The pc i have is a pre built branded machine, i have just upgraded the psu and ram. The case is quite small and with the 7850 in, there is no room for any other pci cards :(
 
MartynB85 said:
The thing is that I have an opportunity to upgrade now that I may not have again for a year or so. Also my current motherboard doesn't support sata 3 so I am not going to get the full performance from a good ssd.
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It depends on what you mean by good performance really, will you get the 500+ MB/s transfer speeds? no, but unless you want to spend all day transferring big files between your SSD's you don't really need them. If I remember correctly the was testing done on SATA II a while back using a OCZ Vertex 4 (a fast SSD) and although the 300MB/s SATA II bus bottlenecked its MB/s speed, its IOPS (the important bit) were fine (iirc somebody said SATA II can do up to 150k IOPS before saturation).
 
i guess i'm getting a bit hung up not being able to overclock the 2500.

Maybe i should just buy a decent SSD and just use the thing.... It's hard to get rid of the upgrade itch :(
 
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