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2500k system, continue upgrading GPU?

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I'm very tempted to grab a 1080ti and pair it with my nearly 7 year old 2500k, am I mad!?

I've been having a look at a few 4k gaming cpu benchmarks and the CPU seems to make barely any difference, now I'm running on 3400x1400 with g-sync, is it really worth me upgrading my my CPU vs the performance gain I could get from a GPU upgrade, I know 3400x1400 is still a fair way from 4k but surely I'll still be bottlenecked by the GPU?


Check this video of a i7-8700k vs an i7-2600k,


If you skip to 6:55 where he shows the gaming benches it's really quite impressive even at CPU limited resolutions.


It's going to cost me around £500 to upgrade my system to a 2600x system (intel is no go atm with cpu price hikes)

so, 1080ti @ £600 vs 2600x upgrade @ £500


Which gains me the most performance?, bare in mind I have g-sync as well.
 
Don't even look at average framerate as it doesn't tell whole story.
2500K regardless of the overclock will give you terrible frametimes and FPS drops in many games these days.
When I had [email protected] with 1866 ram it was bottlenecking (dropping below 60fps) my 980ti in many games.
 
Might aswell, if you're going to get one you can just upgrade the rest later, I think overclocked it's going to be fine. What GPU have you got at the moment?
 
A 2600k will give you a little longer life with you current set up but it's money being spent on a dead platform.

I've not priced it up but a i5-8600k based system could be a good upgrade if you are only gaming as you would have the option of upgrading to either an i7 or i9 second hand in the future.
 
Pick up the 1080Ti cheap while you still can and then upgrade the rest if it’s not good enough.

They’ll be EOL soon and then you’ll be looking at even more for a GPU.
 
Ah can't see sig it's blocked . 1080Ti isn't going to run things smoothly at 4k so I guess it might be worth looking at the CPU and all that first.
 
I recently upgraded from a [email protected] with 16gb ddr3 and a 780ti (Giga-Windforce). That setup is now being used as a gaming machine by my son, and at 1920x1080, it runs games up to BF1 absolutely fine. I dont see any terrible frametimes and FPS drops at that resolution. Having said that, I think you wouldnt get the full benefit of a 1080ti, but at that resolution with g-sync, I dont think the CPU bottleneck enormously. I now have a 1600x@4GHz with a geforce 1080 at 2560x1440 and that looks amazing, definitely a little smoother than the 780ti at those resolutions. However, I changed CPU, GPU, RAM and motherboard all at the same time, so cant really compare. I think your 2500k is likely to need changed soon, but getting a more modern GPU will not hurt in the short term.

You don't say what GPU you have currently?
 
I think a lot depends on what games you play.

But from my experience with a [email protected] when I stuck a gtx 1080 in there and turned the settings up the games ran horrible real real bad stutter fairly unplayble on the demanding games.

Personly I would upgrade your cpu to the AMD.

And oh my god I just had a look, what has happened to intel prices? I was about to say maybe get a cheap 8400 system (processor,board,ram) for £250. But it seems the processors have more than doubled in price they were going for as little as £130 now at £290. OMG.
 
imginy said:
And oh my god I just had a look, what has happened to intel prices? I was about to say maybe get a cheap 8400 system (processor,board,ram) for £250. But it seems the processors have more than doubled in price they were going for as little as £130 now at £290. OMG.
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I know it's insane, I nearly bought an 8400 setup at the end of the summer, I thought there was no rush I'll upgrade later in the year, really kicking myself now :-(
 
I would just get the 1080ti and then see. As I have already done. I do have a i7-7700K system that not being used for gaming, haven't been bothered swap it to my main gaining system yet. Plus it would mean using windows 10. :/

Any alternative eg. a CPU upgrade and a slower card probably won't be as good.

G-sync will help a lot.
 
Gaming on Monster Hunter World on my 4K TV at 3200x1600 res with my overclocked 2500K and Vega64 at the moment, and I haven't experienced the issue some people mentioned above, so I wondering if it is more of the case of Nvidia cards having small bus-size being the cause (or just an issue with Nvidia cards...and possibly the drivers).

Regardless, if you are going for higher res, forget about potential bottleneck, just upgrade graphic card first as generally it is the bigger limitation at high res. I agree with Sasahara's comment above go choosing between upgrading the CPU/platform vs graphic card, it would make more sense to go for the latter.
 
A bit after the horse has bolted (just bought new card), but would my 2500K @ 4.2 be bottlenecking my 580 8GB @ 1080p?

I'm not bothered, i'm very happy with the performance i'm getting now, just out of interest really.
 
There is some benchmarks here for those wondering about a 2500k in modern games.

This is with a gtx 1080 and a 2500k.

https://www.gamersnexus.net/guides/2773-intel-i5-2500k-revisit-benchmark-for-2017/page-3

As you can see in a lot of the games shown the lows on the 2500k are half that of a 7700k.

It all depends on the games you are playing really some will be fine some will be terrible. Like metro is running lows of 100fps on 7700k but dropping to 17fps on the 2500k.

Some games will be fine some will be bad.
 
I don't think the 2500k is up to the job any longer, I moved from a mildly overclocked 2500k (4.5Ghz) to a 8700 and the difference in minimum framerates was staggering, I personally think if you want to get a bit more life out of that platform you should be able to upgrade to a i7 3770k (?) but still I wouldn't waste money, just move to a new Ryzen 2 or Intel 9xxxk platform. You will thank me later.
 
Ezyryder said:
I don't think the 2500k is up to the job any longer, I moved from a mildly overclocked 2500k (4.5Ghz) to a 8700 and the difference in minimum framerates was staggering, I personally think if you want to get a bit more life out of that platform you should be able to upgrade to a i7 3770k (?) but still I wouldn't waste money, just move to a new Ryzen 2 or Intel 9xxxk platform. You will thank me later.
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lol take 5 ghz make sence
 
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