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Might Have Made a Bad Choice... Bottleneck...

Sampsy said:
So I have a 2500k @ 5Ghz and a 1070. More often than not the 2500k bottlenecks the 1070 but it was probably still worth the investment.

Previously I had a 670 and the framerate increase from the upgrade in most games was significant. However there are a few badly optimised games which really want more than my 2500k has to offer. Arma and Pubattlegrounds being good examples. In Battlegrounds my CPU is sitting at or close to 100% load at all times causing a low average framerate and horrible, constant stuttering. Meanwhile my 1070 will often be idling around 40% load. It is a bad experience.
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weird, my 2500k doesnt even get close to 100% in battlegrounds.
 
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AndyT said:
These are my last 2 main upgrades:

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Are there any convincing CPUs in the £180 range (adjusting for inflation and then some) that give the same iconic bang for buck that those two CPUs did? Both of these CPUs were top end of the mid-range back then. All I can find now in Kaby LAke for <£200 are some properly neutered i5s.
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Ryzen 1600?
 
Yeah ryzen 1600 is the way to go for price/performance, its only overall 10% slower than the 7700k and smashes any i5

i5 8600k may be an option but the lack of hyperthreading is meh imo, I cant see it lasting as long as the 2500k. If it was 8c/8t after all these years it would be good.

it'll probably be £250 and need an expensive motherboard too, and thats creeping up into ryzen 1700 prices
 
To give a comparison in bf1 I get 100 to 144 fps on 1080p lower than ultra settings. My ryzen 1700 cpu averages about 30% , max just over 40% and gpu is maxed out.

The 3.7 overclock is running at 1.22v with temps max in low 50's.

If you do go with ryzen try to get Samsung b die based memory, it works better than Hynix based ram.
 
Performance is known. check the coffee lake thread. Price is also known, again, check the thread.

2600K is slow by today's standards but it is also cheap as a used part and would provide a perf boost in todays games. I ran a 2600K until July 2016.
 
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