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upgrade from 2600k?

sonne

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A friend has an i2600k cpu bit he's just purchased a gtx 980ti and mainly plays total war games and would like to max that out. Not to sure what cpu would be most suitable?
 
^ Wat.

Depends. He'd need a chipset upgrade, so that's a new mobo. If price isn't an issue, he can go X99 or Z170, Z97 with a Devil's Canyon would be cheaper and still be a worthy upgrade however.
 
Price isnt an issue he just wants to max total war type games and wants the best hardware for the job.
 
just wind the 2600k up,

more than ample for any game especially once clocked,

4.5ghz at a minimum I would imagine with appropriate cooling, have one here that's been sat at 4.8 for the last 2 years quite happily
 
The 2600k is a cracking cpu, get it overclocked to 4.5+ and will be fine for years. If you have already overclocked it, the only thing I would change to would be X99. No other options are viable, pointless changing from 2600k to skylake to have the same amount of cores. The 2600k won't hold back the system and certainly won't hold back the 980ti, he has no need to upgrade unless it's X99.
 
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I have a overclocked 2600k, and an overclocked 5930K -- the 2600K feels quite a bit quicker when on a single CPU. Yeah, more cores so for my usage it's worth it, but it wouldn't have been a good deal to 'upgrade'.
 
I have a 2700k and the only route that was worth it for me was x99 and a 5820k,ur cpu should at least do 4.8 and is still a very capable cpu
 
sonne said:
If he plans on getting the 980ti and sli's it will the 2600 not bottleneck?
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Will slightly but I'd just overclock it as far as possible before thinking about upgrading. If he upgrades he will need another motherboard and more than likely also DDR4 which will cost same amount as one GTX 980ti.
 
Well it appears he does need a new motherboard as his current one gigabyte z77 is not comparable for sli so may as well get an x99 motherboard possibly asus maximus but not sure what cpu would be the best.
 
I wouldn't bother going for a super pimp motherboard unless you need the extra features. There aren't any bad quality x99 boards really, pick one that suits his needs. For gaming i would get the 5820k, many of these RTS' are CPU hungry but wont use the silly amount of cores the top end x99s offer.
 
Good reasons to upgrade to X99 would be:

A requirement for additional CPU cores for video editing or similar applications.
A need for additional PCI-E lanes for a multi GPU set up

I cannot think of any good reason to upgrade to Z170 given the relative cost compared to X99. But another reason for upgrading to a newer chipset may be for a m.2 slot.

For gaming with a single GPU upgrading the CPU and Motherboard wouldn't represent value for money.
 
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