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Practical advice on upgrade from 2500K

fastwunz

fastwunz

fastwunz

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Hi all,

Bit of a dilema - currently have the following:

GTX 970
2500k clocked to 4.8
8 Gigs Ram

My system is struggling somewhat and i am having to crank settings down nowadays. Games like Player Unknowns Battlegrounds (which face it looks pants) runs like a dog on any settings above High and even then its not a buttery smooth 60fps experience.

My dilema is that im pretty short on cash at the moment having taken a significant pay cut in order to retrain in a new professon.

My 2500k has frankly been the best chip i have ever owned but it may be time to upgrade.

I cannot justify hundreds for a new system and was hoping to upgrade the 2500k for the next year or so and then see where i am at in 2018.

So, what chip could i feasibly upgrade to with my 1155 system and what would be the best? I am assuming the GTX970 should be more than enough for my 1080p setup for now (correct me if im wrong)

thanks
 
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Make sure its not your gpu holding you back though, the differences between CPUs generally reduce at higher in game settings. Have you checked GPU and CPU usage in game?
 
fastwunz said:
Hi all,

Bit of a dilema - currently have the following:

GTX 970
2500k clocked to 4.8
8 Gigs Ram

My system is struggling somewhat and i am having to crank settings down nowadays. Games like Player Unknowns Battlegrounds (which face it looks pants) runs like a dog on any settings above High and even then its not a buttery smooth 60fps experience.

My dilema is that im pretty short on cash at the moment having taken a significant pay cut in order to retrain in a new professon.

My 2500k has frankly been the best chip i have ever owned but it may be time to upgrade.

I cannot justify hundreds for a new system and was hoping to upgrade the 2500k for the next year or so and then see where i am at in 2018.

So, what chip could i feasibly upgrade to with my 1155 system and what would be the best? I am assuming the GTX970 should be more than enough for my 1080p setup for now (correct me if im wrong)

thanks

Tom
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PUBG runs like crap on most computers mate.
If you absolutely have to upgrade then look at the 3770k for the best bang for your buck.
Can you run with an overlay running such as msi afterburner to see whats happening with usage? If you are at 100% usage on your CPU in games then thats holding you back.
 
3770K or 2600K is the best you'll do, if you sell your 2500K, it'll cost you about £50-75.

However as already said, check the creative graphics card isn't holding you back first. You'll get about £90-110 for a 970 GTX, and the best upgrade would be a second hand 980Ti for about £200+
 
2500k @ 4.8? I really think it is your GPU that is holding you back. Sure, newer chips are faster, but that chip ain't no slouch at that speed.

I would reduce your graphics settings to get more FPS until your finances improve or you can save up for it.
 
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using very low settings for all except texture and viewdistance and upgrading to 16gb ram will make pubg very playable (and look less of a blurry mess) ~70-90fps
 
cpu upgrade will probably give you a more smoother experience compared to a gpu upgrade

I doubt a 1070 will help much in cpu intensive games/minimum framerates, might even make things like stutter worse. 2600k/2700k are pretty cheap
 
fastwunz said:
So we are probably looking at a 1070 or second hand 980 then?
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The 980 does not offer that much over a 970 tbh. The sensible move here would be a 980ti. Sell the 970 and you should be able to upgrade to a 980ti for about £100-150 the difference between the 970 and 980ti is considerable.
 
PUBG is an alpha release - I wouldn't bother trying to spend massive money on it,as you could be throwing money at it for a while,and until it comes to final release the devs won't bother spending money optimising it.

jigger said:
I'd probably do a bit of a system overhaul.

Xeon E3 1240v2
16Gb of RAM
R9 390

The Xeons are semi unlocked.
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I have a Xeon E3 1230 V2 myself!! :)

CEX sell the Core i7 3770 non-K for £100 currently.
 
Please do not rate your system on PUBG.
I have a 3550k @ 4.2Ghz, so whilst one gen newer than you is going to be slower overall due to your 600mhz advantage.
My current view is that my 290x GPU is holding me back on my 3440x1440 screen.

If you want a new rig then by all means go for it as yours is old now, but PUBG is absolutely nowhere near an acceptable level of optimisation. It runs like an early PS3 game that was badly ported from the Xbox 360 i.e. crap. It doesn't even look good either!

In my opinion, GPU is probably our best bet along with a new superwide 1440p screen. It will improve your experience no end whilst not affecting CPU load.
 
PUBG runs garbage on my 4.5Ghz 5820K and GTX 1080 system. I run medium settings to get the FPS I find acceptable.
 
textures on ultra everything else lowest it will go apart from draw distance at low not lowest
works well for me 2500k @4.5 ghz rx470 16gb ram solid state

back of my mind somewhere I think i read its best to set textures to ultra
also sometimes it's the server giving bad performance
 
Disco_P said:
PUBG runs garbage on my 4.5Ghz 5820K and GTX 1080 system. I run medium settings to get the FPS I find acceptable.
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what res and settings? i benchmarked my settings on my oc 5820k other day lowest fps was 80 avg 120 max 144.

even with a 1080ti at 1080 you wont get much different fps as it only starts to stretch its legs at 1440 or above.it can actually be slower at 1080 slightly.

with a i9 7900x the fps is about 100-120 avg with a 1080ti. at 1080.


if you want the best for pubg you want a nvidia gpu and a intel cpu.not biased go check benchmarks.also nvidia is working with pubg team for optimization.those saying it needs optimization you wont get much different fps from now to when its fully launched.so if you struggle now or get huge lag spikes just upgrade now and not just hope for a fix.modern tech runs it fine.

as said i mainly play it on my 5820k at 4.6 rig and its mainly 100 -120 fps solid.which is fine.

as for pubg settings.shadows is the biggest fps hit upto 20 percent performance hit from low to ultra.so run it on lowest settings.

i run all low texture ultra and view distance max.gives a clean look and the best performance.
 
yes a old i5 which dont cut it for pubg.and a nearly 4 year old gpu.

modern intel and modern nvida card i should have said.pubg is a 2017 game.you need pretty modern stuff for it and even the highest gpu and cpu can drop in places at 1080.

if you want the best performance for 1080 res high fps. you want a 1070 gtx or 1080 gtx.they actually beat a 1080ti at 1080 res.price is pretty poor value on 1070 gtx at moment though.1080 probably better value but at 1080 res in pubg the fps difference is almost identical.

cpu wise if new wait for coffee lake.if you building your rig soley for pubg.intel is quite a bit infront as many benchmarks show for pubg.

what you could do is if doing a full upgrade is buy a gpu first see how it runs on your rig.if you find it exceptable (everyones different) then just play with new gpu or if still not happy upgrade mobo and cpu with coffeelake.

gpu benchmark

 
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