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2500k here.
I'll be upgrading when Skylake becomes available.
I'm hoping that it really smooths out things like Dolphin and PCSX2.
I have a 2500K at 4.5 and a gtx 780 non ti. skyrim chokes it with a mix of 2K and 4K textures with enb on top of it, i suspect my 2500k may be the culprit, also 8gb of ram. Any sugestions.
I have a 2500K at 4.5 and a gtx 780 non ti. skyrim chokes it with a mix of 2K and 4K textures with enb on top of it, i suspect my 2500k may be the culprit, also 8gb of ram. Any sugestions.
I highly doubt its the CPU. More likely the 3GB of VRAM on the GPU. I've seen people push 4GB of VRAM use with certain Skyrim mods. Skyrim isn't very CPU intensive at all.
Trust me i tried all kinds of tweaks and i learned alot about ENB and how it works, even with a performance ENB it still chokes abit, and yeah i know about ENB boost and suck, heck even tried some ini tweaks, if i just have the base game with HD pack from bethesda i get a solid 60FPS no matter where i am, once i pile on the graphic mods i get stutter and frame rate that is all over the charts and which i think is causing my lag/stutter. Oh and if i dont use Vsynch i get some funny results like the cart ride in the beginning it bounces all over the place . I guess im spoiled at playing at a solid 60FPS cause once it dips to to 58FPS(yes i notice that much of a drop) and forget it when i goes to 55 or lower. I was hoping a new CPU would help but i don't know at this point.
thats because the game engine its completely tied to the refresh rate, what i do to avoid this its disable Vsync and enable a framerate cap.. you can force vsync off in Nvidia Control Panel and use the MSI afterburner or EVGA precision X frame rate limiter to 60fps. results? the game silky smooth and a solid as rock Frame time of 16.6ms..
Still enjoying my i5 2500K @ 4.4GHz. I've been using this since the "B3" revision P67 boards came out, and I think I've gone two years without even adjusting anything in the BIOS. I keep looking for a reason to upgrade and Intel just isn't giving me one.
2500k here.
I'll be upgrading when Skylake becomes available.
I'm hoping that it really smooths out things like Dolphin and PCSX2.
2500k @ 4.2 here.. waiting for skylake if possible. It's hard to wait though. I want a new case but dont want to buy one before getting a new mobo and cpu.
Hopefully skylake comes sooner rather than later
I am still on a 2500K and am damn happy with it. Alot of heavy lifting can be done by my ESXi hosts if needed, and the 2500K still screams in most applications. Most of my gaming has been moved to my HTPC's throughout the house. The only thing my main rig is missing atm is a huge SSD. If 14nm on the desktop is a significant performance boost then I may be swayed just for the fun of it.
PCSX2 runs great on my Q6600. Did you enable MTVU in the "Speedhacks" menu? It basically makes the emulation much more effective for people with 3 or more cores.
Dolphin on the other hand.... well, good luck.
I'm surprised you haven't upgraded the CPU at least to something newer and faster, they're cheap as chips, now. Performance has come a long way. You'd be surprised at what you're missing.*Raises hand*
I'm still using my trusty old Sandy Bridge i5-2320 in my main machine that I've been using since 2012. It's by far the longest I've ever used a CPU before and I still don't feel the need to upgrade to anything newer.
All my friends called me crazy for loading up on 32GBs of RAM way back then 10 years ago. However I believe it's actually a big part of the reason that this build has had such longevity for me, as I have a few games now that recommend 16GBs and I often have encoding or rendering tasks open in the background while I'm gaming.
This trusty CPU and I have been through so much together. So many memories, and yet it still keeps going and continues to run any apps or games that I've thrown at it. Twitch streaming, Video editing, Red Dead 2, Cyberpunk 2077, PS2 emulation, Virtualsation, 4k video, you name it.
Previously I used to always build AMD systems. But in 2012, AMD's FX offerings didn't look very appealing to me so I thought I'd go Intel once because of all the good reviews Sandy Bridge had gotten at the time, and here I still am now haha.
The system still feels very modern to me as well. It now drives a 165 hertz monitor, a M.2 enterprise grade SSD and a 4k capture card.
10 years ago I had the forethought to buy a spare Asus Z77a motherboard as well that I still have new-in-box so I should be ready well set in order to make any repairs that I could potentially ever need to do in order to keep her running for the next 10 years, hopefully longer.
Is anyone else here still using one of those legendary chips as their main driver? I've truly been blown away at what a great computer it's been for me.