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personally i'd get the red dragon for the same money
fair enough, didn't know you were pricing from somewhere other than OcUK. irrespective, personally i'd not go with the asrock, it's a reference blower which usually means hot and loud - although that can be improved upon with a bit of tweaking/undervolting but i'd much prefer one of the 'after market' alternatives.
I was running my mouth trying to make a point after a few drinks mate. Only a couple of games like Kingdom Come etc...I ran a few benchmarks are while back on this thread..have a look
I would prefer not to be running my Vega with a 2500k neither. Bear in mind though mate, some of us have other things going on in life and more paramount financial priorities etc. I for one upgrade my gaming PC's sporadically as an ongoing concern. My 2500k custom water loop OC to 4.9ghz was paired with a GTX 970, 8GB of 1866 ram running on a p8p67, built in Jan / feb 2017. I upgraded my GTX 970 to my Vega 56 pulse circa feb this year, a bargain from OCUK clearance with 6 month warrenty for £200. I Have just dropped a 2600K cpu into my system to tide me over the next several months / year, and will be looking to upgrade to a ryzen 3600 with 16gb 3600mhz memory on a 450 motherboard. Reality is barring the odd few games like kingdom come deliverance, an overclocked 2500k is still viable for circa 60fps gaming.
It’s cool dude. If you’re happy enough with a bit of excess noise (potentially) and tweaking with the vega to get the best from it you’ll be good but just don’t be expecting a whisper quiet experience with the Asrock.
Agreed mate. Howver a 2500k clocked to 4.9ghz is still an acceptable cpu for circa 60fps gaming in at least most games, and being mindfull of CPU pertinant game settings. I have however just dropped a 2600k into my system tonight in the hope of tiding me over another several months. I think I may have topped out at 4.7 ghz unfortunatly however, the cpu needs quite a bit more vcore than my 2500k for a lesser overclock and is hitting 92 degrees on 2 cores under prime stress. Its only from an office PC as per the eBay listing and the clear circle line on the heat spreader indicates it has indeed probably been sat under a standard intel cooler probably running spreadsheets and internet its whole life. I am gonna run it hard and fast and hope to get close to a year out of it.
Deffo the CPU in a slack handful of games like Kingdom Come and Metro Ex mate...I was not willing to drop circa 400 quid just to upgrade the majority of my rig to bring my 1% lows in a few games up from 30's and 40's. Most games I play were fine on my 2500k @ 4.9ghz. I am however impressed with the 2600k I have dropped in my rig tonight. Running at 4.7ghz, Shadow of the Tomb Raider is 11fps higher and the lows are much higher. Far cry 5 was also noticeably better performance. Both games maintained above 60 frames per second at 1920 x 1080 highest settings.
