Upgrade or not 2500K

Willis · 12 Oct 2013 at 17:36

I have a intel i5 2500k in a Gigabyte GA-P67A-UD4 and 8Gb ram with a soon to add ASUS Matrix HD7970

The 2500k is running at 4ghz and i'm looking to play Battlefield 4 at 2560x1440

will the CPU hold me back and is now time to upgrade the CPU to i7 :confused:

~>Dg<~ · 12 Oct 2013 at 17:43

your cpu will be fine for bf4

RavenXXX2 · 12 Oct 2013 at 17:47

I have a 3570k and I hate to say it but there are areas in the BF4 beta where my GPU usage dropped and CPU went 100% on all cores. So yeah if you're going to invest a lot of time in BF4 then an i7 would be a better choice of CPU.

Now the beta was just the one map and the build is said to be very old, come the BF4 release it could be better optimized and the i5 will be perfectly fine.

ALXAndy · 12 Oct 2013 at 20:24

4ghz? that it? get it nearer to 5 man.

Randomface74 · 12 Oct 2013 at 20:27

play BF4 when it's out... THEN decide

CyberCrow · 12 Oct 2013 at 20:50

Maybe change your board, overclock the Cpu no need change your gpu cover your rez fine as well.

Max3 · 12 Oct 2013 at 20:52

Decide when BF4 is out because currently there are benchmarks showing lower fps with i7 hyperthreading in use.

Avenged7Fold · 12 Oct 2013 at 20:53

I thought everyone was having issues with CPU being at 100% and and GPU usage dropping, no matter what CPU they had. I would wait till BF4 before deciding but i doubt your CPU wont have enough grunt.

What cooler do you have?

Tried for higher clocks?

If you have the cash to spend, maybe going for two 7950s or even two 7970s will give you a better performance boost over a CPU upgrade.

nutsnut · 12 Oct 2013 at 20:55

With two graphics card his 2500k will bottleneck them in some games.

Minstadave · 12 Oct 2013 at 21:01

ALXAndy said:
4ghz? that it? get it nearer to 5 man.

This to be honest. Then wait to see what BF4 is like when the retail version is released.

ALXAndy · 12 Oct 2013 at 21:03

Minstadave said:
This to be honest. Then wait to see what BF4 is like when the retail version is released.

From what I've seen of it it's not that much different to BF3 only as buggy as hell.

Avenged7Fold · 12 Oct 2013 at 21:05

nutsnut said:
With two graphics card his 2500k will bottleneck them in some games.

Clock the 2500k higher and the money would give you better frame rates if you spend it on two 7950s over a 3770k.

CyberCrow · 12 Oct 2013 at 21:12

If he went sli or x fire he would be bottle necked by his i5.

Jordan777 · 13 Oct 2013 at 13:12

clock it more i get 4.6 out of mine, i am maybe looking at a 280x and then see how it runs

Jono8 · 13 Oct 2013 at 14:52

I just ordered a 3770k. My 2500k is holding back my 670's in sli. I was gonna get a 4770k but that would have involved a new motherboard and cpu cooler and figured the 5-10% gains were not worth it.

The bottleneck shouldn't be too bad with a single 7970 though, although Battlefield is very cpu dependent especially on a full 64 player large map.

CyberCrow · 13 Oct 2013 at 14:56

Jono8 said:
I just ordered a 3770k. My 2500k is holding back my 670's in sli. I was gonna get a 4770k but that would have involved a new motherboard and cpu cooler and figured the 5-10% gains were not worth it.

The bottleneck shouldn't be too bad with a single 7970 though, although Battlefield is very cpu dependent especially on a full 64 player large map.

1 7970 wouldn't bottle neck a 2500K any way.

Ps it might due bottleneck due to the res size he's playing at.

Jordan777 · 13 Oct 2013 at 18:32

what about a 280x toxic ? i am looking to buy one possible unless the 290 blows my mind away

Xplo · 13 Oct 2013 at 19:17

280x is a rebrand of 7970 so will be the same scenario

Marine-RX179 · 13 Oct 2013 at 21:35

A single 7970 (even if it is the Matrix Platinum) for 2560 res...the concern would be more on the graphic card than the i5 2500K at 4.00GHz I think.

However as mentioned OP should clock his CPU higher.

CyberCrow · 13 Oct 2013 at 21:43

ignore