Help! Time for a Mobo/CPU upgrade.

[Psychosocial94]

Hi forums,

I recently did a "small" upgrade in the GPU department from an AMD 7850 to a GTX 970 and it's done wonders in terms of performance. But now it's time to up the ante a bit more and do away with my sluggish i5 2500k.

I guess I'm on a £500 budget, or if that isn't enough I can stretch to £600. But the problem is I haven't been keeping up with the latest CPU news. I know if I want a worthwhile upgrade I'm going to have to get a new Mobo as well so I'm open to either AMD or Intel suggestions.

Specs at the moment:

Gigabyte Z77-D3H (Socket 1155)
i5 2500k 3.30ghz
GeForce GTX 970 4096MB GDDR5
Corsair Vengeance 8gb (2x4gb) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel
Raijintek Themis Evo Professional CPU Cooler
Cooler Master Elite 430 Windowed Case

Thanks you in advance,

Dan

 

[Martini1991]

Get an SSD.
Your i5 2500K's not sluggish. Overclock it.

Frankly, only thing I'd be considering as far as upgrading is X99, but I can't see you gaining much over a clocked 2500K with a single 970.

 

[pastymuncher]

Get it clocked. You should hit somewhere around 4.2-4.5Ghz if not more. You will gain little by moving to Z97/Haswell.