Completely bewildered atm as to what build would be worth doing in the coming months. I know my 2500K is at EOL but have no idea what to get for gaming. I have a 980 and a BenQ 144hz 1080P btw. Those min frames are killing me in BF1 and pubg.
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Is it overclocked?Completely bewildered atm as to what build would be worth doing in the coming months. I know my 2500K is at EOL but have no idea what to get for gaming. I have a 980 and a BenQ 144hz 1080P btw. Those min frames are killing me in BF1 and pubg.
As a quick cheap bandaid you could hunt down a used i7 2600k or ivy bridge equivalent. It's not the horsepower that is keeping an overclocked 2500k down (not completely anyway), it's the lack of treads. 4 treads is just getting old.
If you are itching for a real upgrade, 8400 or 8600k (if you want overclocking) are fricking impressive. In games they are on par and even sometimes beat 7700K that was the king of gaming CPU's just two weeks ago. Problem is try to find one in stock. Coffee Lake release was pretty much a paper launch that Intel was forced to do early because Ryzen was making Kaby Lakes look kinda bad value.
I have to disagree on the last point, in 90% of games out there the 7700k or even the 4790k(yes with its ddr3) is going to be faster for games. Reviewers like to test the very few games that will take advantage of the extra threads, and even then it doesn't make a big difference. Most games won't even use 4 threads effectively. A lot of youtube reviewers will record while making benchmarks which further skews the results. The nice thing about the i7's though on top of the extra threads is the extra cache, which is not pointed out often enough as the reason a lot of games will get a better frame rate vs an i5. By all means if he's rendering all day or has some other use for the 6 cores, go that route. I myself do do rendering for work and find it takes up less than 5% of my daily time. Games might eventually get to the point of using more than 4 threads, but we are far from the point where it makes sense to spend the money for that for that particular reason(games). Especially with motherboards as expensive as they are currently for that generation.
something worth watching 2600k vs 8700k in gaming
yet their real review which is much more well done with far more data basically contradicts that video..
http://www.hardwarecanucks.com/foru...ntel-coffee-lake-i7-8700k-i5-8400-review.html
something worth watching 2600k vs 8700k in gaming
The best CPU on the market right now is the Ryzen 3 1200 for $105 to $110 dollars. It OC's to 4ghz with the stock cooler and is equal in performance to the 7600K i5.
You can go and research this yourself. Tons of videos on the net along with excellent reviews.
I'm currently selling 5 to 6 of these systems a month with a 1060 3gb video card. $550 in parts I sell for $899 to $799
Absolutely the best bang for the buck.
Did you seriously just recommend a CPU that is worse performance than his 2500k?
Someone needs to reboot their AMD shill bot swarm manager, it's going haywire.
I think I will wait too. Probably keep an eye out for a 2600K on the fs. Even a 5 fps difference would help. Funny thing is that the nvidia experience for bf1 is a maxxed out profile. TAA all ultra lol. I do NOT think that will help.
Did you seriously just recommend a CPU that is worse performance than his 2500k?
Someone needs to reboot their AMD shill bot swarm manager, it's going haywire.
you TOTALLY ignored what said, it OC's to 4ghz on the stock air cooler for $105 dollars. 4 Core / 4 Threads.
At stock speed the 2600k is only 1% faster.
Again, and you guys can find the reviews on youtube, there's plenty of them
the Ryzen 3 1200 ( AGAIN ... at 4GHZ ) is as fast as a stock 7600k i5.
If you have money then just get you the 7820K for $550
Says the person who totally ignored the entire thread when they pressed "AMD shill bot swarm spam post."
OP has a 4.5 ghz 2500k, Ryzen IPC is ~ Sandy Bridge IPC. Ryzen 3 1200 is 4c/4t.
The Youtube links that AMD shills love to link are hot trash.
ATF, /r/AMD are calling you home.
The nerve of people to advise people to waste 150-300+ USD on DDR4 3200+, 80-150 USD on mobo, ~50-70 USD on HSF, just to "save" 100-200 USD on a CPU so that you can have worse performance than the system you already have.
Buying anything less than a 8700k if you have the option to is an absolutely retarded decision.
When upgrading, you have to always look at total system cost, and factor in the benefit over your current setup.
You also have to make sure to factor in that any CPU bottleneck at any time in any game automatically makes your GPU a bad purchase, as you are now both introducing cpu bottleneck stutter (The MAIN determinator of "playability" of a game, as GPU bottlenecked settings are mostly cosmetic and easy to tweak, but CPU bottlenecked setting are almost always harder (if not impossible) to tweak and is literally gameplay itself), as well as lowering effective performance of your GPU.
This is my last response to you, you don't deserve my time.