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Upgrading from a 2500k

Not worth it mate for cost and performance increase.

Am still rocking a 2500k at 4.5ghz and its fine with every game that comes out, also I only have a GTX780Ti and at 1080p it runs everything.

Now if you into video coding or rendering then yes up grade, but otherwise I would not bother. ;)
 
I'm running an i5 2500K and have it overclocked at a stable 4.7ghz on a P8Z68V_LX motherboard along with 12gig of DDR3 and a RX480 Ultra. It's only stable when i over i overclock it with a XMP profile and not a manual profile. My system runs fantastic and i can play any game at 60/70/80 fps on the highest settings on my 21:9 monitor. I am however tempted to buy and try the i7 3770K to see if i can make my system even faster.
 
Seems to be stable at 4.4ghz at the moment now, might try and push a bit higher. I haven't changed anything other than the turbo speed setting.
 
Hey cliff I got mine running at 4.5 ghz on air and runs really nice with 16gb DDR3 ram , the one big improvement for me come from installing the game on a good SSD so make sure you do that..... I game with everything on ultra and shadows low and get a constant 60 fps but it has dropped loads with Nvidias new update so god knows whats happened there, I think the current build is pretty unstable still but when I played the test servers last week it was really smooth so I'd wait and see what the 1.0 build is like and go from there. my guess is next week or the week after or a full release on the 12th Dec when it gets released on the Xbox one.
 
I'm still running with my i5 2500k @ 4.8ghz, to be honest its starting to show its age in a few games, Star Citizen maxes out my cpu whatever graphic settings i have, Ark quite often sends me cpu to 100% also. I think lack of hyper threading is the biggest issue so i'm on the look out for a cheap i7 2600k or maybe a i7 3770k. Hopefully that will give my system another year or so of life as I cant afford a whole system upgrade with the crazy prices of hardware right now.
 
My rig in sig can't play PUBG well AT ALL my mate on his i7 (forget which but about 3 yrs old) is running much more smoothly at higher FPS.

I think it's just time to get a new system likely 8600K for me.

It had it's day in the sun but face it Sandy is a generation old in technological terms now things have improved. Much more expensive though this time around, irrespective of RAM pricing.
 
My sandy mobo crapped itself a month ago
I got a 8700K mobo and it is a lot faster

If the mobo hand not of died I would have still been using the Z68 mobo
 
Had mine a good 2 weeks now so can report back on how much better the i7 8700k helps.... First I would say my GPU doesn't bottle neck anymore would get 60 FPS MAX on PUBG constantly on my i5 2500k but would get in game spikes all the time with this CPU.... since moving over too the i7 8700k this has gone! I get an average of 70 - 90 FPS now with i7 8700k installed so super smooth 60 FPS so I am really happy with my upgrade..... is it worth it ? depends on how you want your games to play but I feel its worth every penny.
 
I'm also running a 2500k but PUBG is mostly fine after turning down AA etc.
The game is not remotely optimised, don't spend money just for the sake of one game, I have a friend with a monster rig who still gets lag and stuttering in PUBG.
 
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