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

jay0906 · 12 Mar 2017 at 13:52

Honestly I would just get as high of an overclock as possible to eliminate any cpu limitation. You should be able to get 4.5-4.7 quite easily on sandy bridge. I would rather upgrade the GPU but you say you want to keep it so I'd just advice you to save for cannon lake coming at Q1 2018.

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)

jay0906 · 12 Mar 2017 at 16:00

You should be fine for the most part with a 1070 its basically a 980ti. It's at the gtx1080 and onwards you'll start noticing some bottlenecking but then again these things bottleneck overclocked 7700k's in certain titles.

jbh110tdi · 12 Mar 2017 at 16:56

you got an SSD in there? just I see no mention of one.

sorry my mistake.. spotted it now..

wedrum · 12 Mar 2017 at 16:58

overclock the 2500k .
if your only on 1080p then your setup is still fine.

drogon · 12 Mar 2017 at 18:19

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

Doogles · 12 Mar 2017 at 18:33

Just overclock the 2500k to start with, on my 3570k which is harder to cool because it has TIM instead of solder under the IHS I run 4.5Ghz @1.4v (High voltage but 4.6Ghz gives me WHEA errors and crashes BF1). With a Kraken you should be able to run 1.4v on that chip happily but just take it slow until you start to feel uncomfortable with temperature.

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!