Upgrade from 2500k

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Hey guys,

Having issues with my rig atm, keeps rebooting in game and when left. Tried a fresh install and haven't got to the root of it :/ Thinking a refresh might be worth doing :D

All my PC is for is gaming really, have a 970, big PSU I bought last year and drives.

Is i5 still the way to go and should I be going for 6600K or 4690 ? Last time I looked at cpu's and mobos was 5 year ago so I'm really out the loop atm :(

Any advice gratefully received :)

Jim
 
Go for the 6600K, newer chip and chipset and their is only a few pounds difference in price.

Also may be worth looking at the bundles OC do, to save some money.
 
That's a really good vid Disco - makes me feel better about sticking with my 3570k for so long :)
 
I have the same chip. Finding it hard to justify an upgrade of mobo/ram/cpu. Think I'll just go with new gfx for now.

GTX660ti, eyeing up the 970

Unless you move to an i7 6700K, now that's an upgrade!
 
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BuToNz said:
That's a really good vid Disco - makes me feel better about sticking with my 3570k for so long :)
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I'm perfectly happy with my 2550K too even though it's a terrible overclocker.

bledd. said:
I have the same chip. Finding it hard to justify an upgrade of mobo/ram/cpu. Think I'll just go with new gfx for now.

GTX660ti, eyeing up the 970

Unless you move to an i7 6700K, now that's an upgrade!
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My friend went from a 660ti to a 970 and said he is hugely impressed by the jump. However I would not like to be in need of a new graphics card at the moment due to all the rumours about DX12, pascal and polaris etc.

The fella also did another video about Pentium, i3, i5 and i7 CPUs if you are interested.
 
Disco_P said:
I'm perfectly happy with my 2550K too even though it's a terrible overclocker.



My friend went from a 660ti to a 970 and said he is hugely impressed by the jump. However I would not like to be in need of a new graphics card at the moment due to all the rumours about DX12, pascal and polaris etc.

The fella also did another video about Pentium, i3, i5 and i7 CPUs if you are interested.
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Yeah best advice is just to wait now it won't be long, give it another 3-4 months and we should probably even have aftermarket coolers hitting the shelves, I still have Witcher 3 to play when I get my upgrade :)
 
I played nearly 200 hours of the witcher 3 with a single GTX Titan at 1440p. Most of the time I was getting 60fps too. You just have to be a little clever with the settings.
 
Can you even upgrade a 2500k? Like, you could spend hundreds on a 5960X and it'd be a tiny upgrade for gaming. CPUs have hit a massive brick wall we won't see them get past for many many years. If you're on a 2500k/3570k you're basically set for the foreseeable future. i7s are for enthusiasts or people who need their machines for more than gaming, or people creating new PCs as some are cheap now. A 980ti would be a much better investment.
 
Omaeka said:
Can you even upgrade a 2500k? Like, you could spend hundreds on a 5960X and it'd be a tiny upgrade for gaming. CPUs have hit a massive brick wall we won't see them get past for many many years. If you're on a 2500k/3570k you're basically set for the foreseeable future. i7s are for enthusiasts or people who need their machines for more than gaming, or people creating new PCs as some are cheap now. A 980ti would be a much better investment.
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Or until dx12 games are all the rage?
 
I'm still on 2500K. Keep thinking about upgrading but the I watch vids like the one posted and it just makes me feel like I'd be throwing my money away.
 
If all you do is game, web browsing, watch films, general office use, then there's no need to upgrade the CPU from a 2500K with a single card.

If anything look at Polaris / Pascal graphics cards when they are available around June.

Watch this all the way through. The 2500K can still cut it really well in games especially if you have a monitor that pushes no more than 60fps.

He says CPU performance scales with memory bandwidth, so jumping from 1333/1600 MHz ram to 2133MHz does show an improvement and it's relatively cheap.

He also mentions dropping a 3770K into your system is another cheap way of giving a decent performance boost, this is also covered in another video.

 
So a 3770K and 16GB of 2133MHz ram would be a really good upgrade for me? Might just look at the RAM actually.

Other than 4GB of RAM and an SSD I've gone from a GTX460 through a 670 2GB, 780 6Gb and now a 980 4GB. The 780 died and was replaced with the 980 under warranty. Even though I also went to 21:9 2560x1080 around the time I got the 780 I've noticed an in game performance increase every time, although the 780-980 was very marginal depending on the game.
 
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So a 3770K and 16GB of 2133MHz ram would be a really good upgrade for me? Might just look at the RAM actually.

Other than 4GB of RAM and an SSD I've gone from a GTX460 through a 670 2GB, 780 6Gb and now a 980 4GB. The 780 died and was replaced with the 980 under warranty. Even though I also went to 21:9 2560x1080 around the time I got the 780 I've noticed an in game performance increase every time, although the 780-980 was very marginal depending on the game.
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AFAIK DigitalFoundry are the only website that have found faster ram making a significant difference in gaming. They also show much larger gains from buying new intel CPUs compared to everyone else. I don't know what is up with their results but they always buck the trend.
 
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