Any point Upgrading i5 2500K

[skalragg]

Currently have i5 2500K which I currently have OC'd at 3.6 , but will be pushing it to at least 4.0 over weekend.

Any point upgrading to the newer chips on the market, will be doing some programming and playing BF3, my current setup give 100FPS average on Highest settings.

 

[d_brennen]

There is no compelling upgrade for gaming, IMO

 

[Thaifood]

Short answer no. Just overclock that CPU more

 

[Shadow-King]

Nope, just OC it more.

 

[Doomedspeed]

Spend a few £ on a decent cooler and get it to 4.5-4.7

 

[PooBrain]

I have an i5 2500K at stock and i will be water cooling it soon for a MASSIVE OVERCLOCK!

 

[=XDC=FluphyBunny]

I have an i5 2500K at stock and i will be water cooling it soon for a MASSIVE OVERCLOCK!

Thanks to incremental improvements spending a bit money on 'older' Sandybridge still makes a lot of sense for those who haven't overclocked.

 

[David Bisset]

If you're getting 100fps at the moment you don't even need to OC it more (though it's fun of course ) so why would you upgrade?

 

[wam7]

Spend a few £ on a decent cooler and get it to 4.5-4.7

Great advice here as long as you have a willing motherboard.

 

[Uther]

I'm in the process of upgrading TO an i5 2500k! For gaming I think its got loads of life left.

 

[Regy53]

yeah I am with sandybridge still and see no benifit in the newer chips for the cost. Get it up to a decent overclock.

 

[Deleted member 2277]

I'd keep the sandy as it seems to be really hit or miss with Haswell. The majority of sandy processors will easily overclock to 4.5ghz with decent temperatures.

 

[humbug]

No, Haswell is 10%~ faster while not clocking as well.

No point in spending £300 on the chip + Mobo when your going to end up with what is pretty much the same.

 

[skalragg]

Spend a few £ on a decent cooler and get it to 4.5-4.7

I have a triple rad WC system built which keeps it at 30c constantly, so seems like i've a lot of overclocking that i can do

thanks for replies

 

[Tackle_Berry]

You have paid for watercooling but never overclocked past 3.6 WHAT?

You should be able to get a good clock out of it which will make a big difference, so loads of fun to be had of it yet.

 

[flopper]

No, Haswell is 10%~ faster while not clocking as well.

No point in spending £300 on the chip + Mobo when your going to end up with what is pretty much the same.

depends, if he can get the batch that oc well, its an upgrade,
and the motherboards are really nice but I came from a 2500k and a p67a board.
4.8ghz on Haswell currently testing. its oc wise pretty much the same as my 2500k. I did notice difference when I gamed though.

 

[humbug]

depends, if he can get the batch that oc well, its an upgrade,
and the motherboards are really nice but I came from a 2500k and a p67a board.
4.8ghz on Haswell currently testing. its oc wise pretty much the same as my 2500k. I did notice difference when I gamed though.

Is that 4.8Ghz Prime95 stable?

 

[Martini1991]

I'd be surprised to see many 4670K's at 4.8GHZ stable.
The best I'd be able to achieve stable under sustained 100% load is probably 4.75GHZ.

 

[humbug]

I'd be surprised to see many 4670K's at 4.8GHZ stable.
The best I'd be able to achieve stable under sustained 100% load is probably 4.75GHZ.

Prime95?

 

[Martini1991]

Prime yeah.
I run mine at 4.6GHZ at the moment, I did a long encode of NCIS for my Surface, took over an hour of my CPU running 100%, but it didn't struggle at all and the system was still usable, no instability to talk of.