Looking at upgrading...

superleeds27

superleeds27

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It's been playing on my mind for a while about upgrading to the latest tech, so my rig is future proof for a good few years.

Was looking at the following:

I5-6600K
Asus Z170 Pro Gaming
Corsair's Vengeance LPX 2x4GB
Cooler Master 212 Evo
Arctic Cooling MX-4 4g

If I pick and choose the parts from several places, I can roughly get it all for £380 delivered.

Current Setup.

I5-2500K at 3.3Ghz
Gigabyte Z68AP-D3 Motherboard
2x4GB Corsair RAM (CMX8GX3M2A1600C9)
Arctic Pro freezer (I think)

Will keep my current:

PSU - Coolermaster 600W Modular (I Think!)
GFX - Sapphire R9 390 Nitro
SSD - M4 CT128M4

Firstly, would many of you bother?
Secondly, would anyone swap anything in the proposed build?
 
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I would wait for the next lot of CPU releases.

Overclock the 2500k, they all do at least 4.5Ghz, maybe buy a nice heatsink to remove the heat.
 
This thread and this article linked in the first post make interesting reading. They seem to suggest there's only about a 12% difference between the 2500k and the 6600k in CPU intensive games. However it's worth pointing out that all the tests were done at 4Ghz so the 2500k would need to be OC'd harder to get there than the 6600k of course.

I wouldn't expect you'd see much of a performance gain with your proposed upgrade. So I'd wait and see what gets released in the next 6-12 months and how the pricing works out, particularly for the lower end of the Broadwell-E range and for Skylake-E and kaby Lake when they arrive.
 
You're current PC is not outdated yet, you could get a fair amount of extra performance out of it by overclocking some more. As Stulid said maybe get a better cooler to help with the overclock.
 
I agree with the other's. The 2500k is still a cracking cpu and if it isn't overclocked get it done for some free performance boost. Like Stulid says, most will do 4.5Ghz+ with ease.
 
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