Where to go with my Rig

drogon · 12 Mar 2017 at 13:46

Hi all,

my pc has been the same for the last few years now. As it currently stands;

2500k - Stock
Gigabyte - z68xp ud3p
8gig corsair Vengeance
1tb ssd
evga superclocked 970

Now i just picked up an aio cooling kit on the cheap (kraken x41) - I currently have a cheap asus golden axe cooler I picked up years ago.

Now I'm trying to decide if a serious overclock on the 2500k is going to meet my needs enough. Or whether I should just bit the bullet and upgrade all (keeping the gpu for now).

Thanks

drogon · 12 Mar 2017 at 14:01

Well I had considered a GPU upgrade. But I assumed that even a heavily overclocked sandy would bottleneck something like a 1070. I would need to stay nvidia (Gsync is a must for me)

drogon · 12 Mar 2017 at 18:19

Thanks for the replies guys. What sort of overclock should I be looking with the kraken x41?

drogon · 12 Mar 2017 at 18:41

Ok thanks for the reply. It is interesting to hear about someone else's experience. Yea I felt the kraken was a good choice. I mean it is going to be a night and day difference from what I have. Which is basically useless for overclocking if I wanted to put any sort of real voltage through the chip. I'll let you know how I get on when the cooler arrives guys. I'm hoping for an improvement, especially in the min fps department!