Upgrade from Sandy?

[robfosters]

Will the 2500k still be able to keep up with games like Star Citizen and Star Wars: Battlefront or will it suffer? I'd imagine SC in particular is demanding on the CPU.

Does the PCI 3.0 make much difference too?

 

[Tephnos]

Will the 2500k still be able to keep up with games like Star Citizen and Star Wars: Battlefront or will it suffer? I'd imagine SC in particular is demanding on the CPU.

Does the PCI 3.0 make much difference too?

I think GTA V is starting to bottleneck my 2500k, if that helps.

 

[dacads]

Looks like I'll be sticking with my 2600k and Z77 board for a while longer. Just wish it had more than 2 intel sata 3 slots though as I've got 3 SSDs and one is stuck in the asmedia slot which is slower than the intel ones. I also recently bought a GTX980 ti to help my gaming so it's not all bad.

Get a sata 3 PCI card?

Will the 2500k still be able to keep up with games like Star Citizen and Star Wars: Battlefront or will it suffer? I'd imagine SC in particular is demanding on the CPU.

Does the PCI 3.0 make much difference too?

PCI 3.0 makes little to no difference.

I think GTA V is starting to bottleneck my 2500k, if that helps.

Shouldn't be, what GPU do you have?

 

[Tephnos]

980Ti lol.

 

[Randall8686]

Upgraded to a 4790K from a 2500K and really very little difference.

i disagree, i went from 2500k to 4790k and i have noticed quite a jump in performance. its not like OMG but there is a marked improvement especially in games such as GTAV and Arma3

 

[Cromulent]

I was looking at the Cinebench results in the 6700k owners club thread and an i7 3930k at stock still beats an overclocked 6700k. Glad I have my i7 3930k running at 4.4Ghz. Sandybridge-E all the way.

 

[~Dockie]

I was looking at the Cinebench results in the 6700k owners club thread and an i7 3930k at stock still beats an overclocked 6700k. Glad I have my i7 3930k running at 4.4Ghz. Sandybridge-E all the way.

+1 considered going for a 4770k but glad i went with a 3930k instead. especially if DX12 can use all 12 threads.

 

[vectisitch]

i upgraded to a 4770ki thought it was actually worse. i needed some money so i sold it and went back to a 2600k at 5gh. i prefer it

 

[ZeroG]

I agree my 2500k still rocks and thats on an original p8p67 which was meant to blow up or kill your drives. (They were all meant to be recalled but i never bothered)
Maybe Zen next year???

I've had the P8P67 for a couple years now with no issues. When was the recall?

 

[zola25]

The recall was likely for for the chipset SATA degradation bug. This is what led to Z68 being released shortly after.

 

[Cromulent]

+1 considered going for a 4770k but glad i went with a 3930k instead. especially if DX12 can use all 12 threads.

Yeah I think it probably will. At least I'm hoping that DX12 will make an improvement. I might even upgrade my graphics cards when it comes out to make sure I have the best possible set up.

 

[bfar]

Will the 2500k still be able to keep up with games like Star Citizen and Star Wars: Battlefront or will it suffer? I'd imagine SC in particular is demanding on the CPU.

Does the PCI 3.0 make much difference too?

Even if it doesn't, neither of those games are released yet. I'm quite happy to wait in the meantime