Need some advice.

[Konamacona]

Morning all, I'm looking for a little advice regarding my rather dated i5-2500k. I've never ever had a problem with the processor it's probably the best bit of gear I think I have ever bought, however that was about 5-6 years ago now?

Recently I have been seeing slowdowns in trivial tasks, such as file managment and the big one - gaming. I have been playing wow again recently (don't shoot) and have been noticing some pretty poor performance, such as 30fps in capital cities.

I'm aware my setup isn't high spec or even close by today's standards but it should be able to cope with things like wow.

Specs:

GTX 970 4GB
i5-2500k @ Stock
8GB DDR3

I know throughout a CPUs lifecycle, the speed in theory stays the same and should never slow down, a CPU either works or doesn't, right?

But I was wondering if maybe going for a i5-3570k or something might be something worth doing, as I don't want to pay for a new mobo at the moment and unfortauntly the old one I have now can't support 1151 sockets only 1155.

Thank you in advance Overclockers!

 

[Konamacona]

I was taking your advice, I was gonna OC until I noticed my temp was at 98c IDLE.. So I took her apart got rid of the old paste etc put some more thermal compound on it. Just ran a 100% stress test and it never went above 78c..

FPS in game seems to have doubled as well.. Think I'm gonna get an aftermarket cooler and see if I can open this 2500k up lol.

 

[Konamacona]

Thanks for the nice advice guys, sorry I took so long to reply, I was thinking maybe for the time being, sticking another 8GB in getting an aftermarket cooler and see how much I can get out of it?