So when is it going to be time to upgrade from the i5-2500k for gaming purposes...

So when is it going to be time to upgrade from the i5-2500k for gaming purposes? I've been rocking this thing since 2011 and it feels like there's no need to upgrade besides for emulation purposes.

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Can't you pretty much emulate everything up to GC on a Pentium?

It has been time to upgrade for ages

youtube.com/watch?v=frNjT5R5XI4&index=19&list=FLunU8pNRjGqaDSMPUnG-NqQ

Also 6 core 8 thread i5 Coffe Lake CPUs are out in a couple of months.

I have this babe too and its super i need to spend alot of money if i want new motherboard with this specs cpu

>6 core intel CPUs out in a couple of months

Yes but will it be that much of an upgarde? I was hoping intel would release a 7nm CPU by next year but it looks like they are lagging behind every other company in terms of trying to achieve 7nm and 5nm chip, which apparently will be a huge boost.

>upgrade CPU
>windows bitches and says can no longer update Windows 7 because of new CPU
>google
>find out this is bullshit and it's just that MS won't, not that they can't
>use WSUS instead

LEAVE ME ALONE! I'm happy with windows 7, fuck off will you? Let me ride it out for as long as I can.

what are you going to do in 2(.5) years?
Tick tock faggot.

>Yes but will it be that much of an upgarde?
Hur durr

Also did you even watch that video?

What GPU you running?

As far as I can tell from the video, they came to the conclusion that you get a higher performance boost from upgrading RAM speed in comparison to upgrading the CPU.

I am upgrading just to play total war and other cpu demanding games

The 2500k was starting to bottleneck my 1070

I used the opportunity to upgrade my RAM to a ddr4 too

Live in a cave. Fuck off with your W10 bullshit. It's never happening. Windows 10 will never be on any of my HDDs

I'm thinking of buying Ryzen 7. Since it's time to upgrade I want to get an AM4 ATX setup. Are the new AM4 boards reliable? I see videos of people getting 100% core usage out of all cores when playing Overwatch and Ashes of the Singularity. For the price, it's really a bargain since I already have a video card and most other parts besides RAM, but I want to know your opinions.

Zen2

I'll keep using it as the consumer base for win7 is bigger than 8, 8.1 and 10 combined. Probably some of those will figure out a workaround.

Current specs I have:

intel i5 2500k at stock speed
GTX 970
8 GB DDR3 RAM
Run everything off HDDs

Currently have a 1TB samsung SSD to install when I build a new PC, but didn't think it was exactly time to upgrade this year or I should just wait a year or two. I was going to maybe upgrade when Nvidia releases consumer versions of their next-gen GPUs.

Depends on what you play and run in the background while playing. Most CPUs released today would be noticeable upgrades in straight FPS count compared to your 2500k already. If you're running shit in the background, that difference goes even higher.

If you're talking about pure FPS count, that 2500k already lacks heavily against something like a 7700k. If you're multitasking anything at all, and you still have only 4 cores, you're pretty fucked these days.

Being realistic, i5s are outdated this years. There's no way a 4 core/4 thread CPU is still relevant when you can get 4 core/8 thread CPUs with same IPC for the same price or cheaper than even the lowest end i5s. Ryzen 5 completely killed i5. The R5 1600 would be a pretty hefty upgrade to your 2500k already, since it's 6 cores/12 threads, and already has a decent 20-30% advantage in terms of IPC to that one.
The 7700k should be about 30-40% better in most cases than the 2500k, for comparison, but limited to 4cores/12threads.

Intel is also coming out with 6core i5s in the near future, probably limiting the HyperThreading to i7s like it's been happening in the past years, but we'll see.

For now, current CPUs on the market are at the very least a clear 20-30% upgrade to yours, which is significant. The 7700k is even bigger. If you're multitasking at all, they all beat the shit out of your 2500k, no questions asked. Current i5s are outdated, only i7s are worth mentioning at all, as it stands and until Intel launches anything that can compete with the performance of the Ryzen5, given how cheap they are.

And now I'm out of here, because discussing hardware on Sup Forums is a fucking shitshow of uninformed faggots trying their hardest to push their shitty opinions based on nothing but their own personal bias because they bought an i5 4430 like a month ago and are trying to justify their shitty decisions and poor research.

TL;DR yes, there's upgrades, do you want to spend the money or not?

>The 7700k should be about 30-40% better in most cases than the 2500k, for comparison, but limited to 4cores/12threads.
Meant 4cores/8threads.
Should proofread more often.

I upgraded to an i7 3770 from my 2500k. Improved performance a good bit. The good thing about it was I didn't have to upgrade my motherboard.
I just bought it second hand on ebay so it was pretty cheap. Should be good for the rest of the current console generation at least.

>all these kids complaining about still having sandy bridge

>I'm still here on my BloomField i7 920

get off my fucking lawn


Though in all seriousness, I'm probably gonna get a 6 or 8 core ryzen and run windows in a virtual machine with GPU passthrough.

Compare CPU benchmarks for The Witcher 3 and you'll see that it has been time to upgrade for many years now.

>970
I can't tell from experience but if you're still satisfied with it then stick with it, but I was using a 2500K with a 770 before jumping up to a 1070 and my CPU heavy games (GTA V, Dying Light, etc) were stuttering bad. Switching to a 6600K fixed the stuttering. So when you feel like you need to upgrade your GPU, I think that's when you should look towards a platform upgrade

can confirm.

6c/12t 5820k 4.6GHz 1440P. see ~60-70 usage in cities.

yeah here on my i7 920 I can easily get 50 fps in more cpu limited games.

Like in say overwatch, it'll usualy be around 55 lowest in big team fights, but otherwise 120 when nothing is going on. So this just means I end up playing lots of older games.

Wait for Coffee Lake and Zen2, I just bought 1080 to my 2500k, I know it's an overkill for my CPU, but I wanted 1070 and they are nowhere to be found. Ryzen it too unstable with memory atm for my comfort and Intel were too long in the lead, so iterations were minimal for gaming, next CPU iteration will be perfect time to get off Mr. Sandy Bridge's ride.

I've been using an OC'd i5 750 for about a decade now, still going strong. I'm in a catch 22 situation, as If I'm going to upgrade it's going to be for good game in the future that I can't run but when I upgrade, I'll be switching to a Linux distro if the newer CPU is incompatible with windows 7 and unlikely to be able to play said hypothetical game.

it's already outdated for new games like Battlefield 1, Deus Ex MD, Rise of The Tomb Raider and many more. But if you don't play most demanding AAA games you will do fine for next few years.

>Coffee Lake
literally same peformance as KabyLake so why bother
>Zen2
same trash as Zen1

>Lagging behind every other company in producing 7/5nm chips
In the desktop space? Because there's only two companies there and AMD sure as shit doesn't have them beat in that respect, and other chips aren'tc really relevant for gaming

GPU passthrough my dude.

You have any proof? Of course you don't.

just like they did for XP, right?

i work at amd and my uncle's brother's nephew work at intel

...

Yeah, I guess. Samsung and some other chinese companies are already set to release 7nm chips as soon as next year (with 5 nm to be released by 2020) at least for smart devices, phones, TVs, etc.

Meanwhile, 7nm is nowhere to be found for desktop PCs.

>literally same peformance as KabyLake so why bother
2 extra cores and 2 extra thread, same performance? I don't think you know how CPUs work.

i was talking about i7 7700k, nobody with right mind would buy i5 kaby lake

>tfw i5 2400
I still can play new games so i ain't upgrading that shit now.

only if you're rocking a 1080 or better

Coffee lake is just Kabylake with better caching and zx70 support.

pcgamesn.com/intel/intel-14nm-coffee-lake-release-date

bullshit, my oced gtx 1060 was bottlenecked hard by i5 2500k, now with i7 7700k i have zero cpu bottlenecks, while my gpu is at 99% all the time

new mobo+xpu not worth it
better he find a cheap 2600k and OC it

Unless you really need the extra cores for multitasking, instead grab a Ryzen 5 1600 + B350 board and oc it. The stock cooler that comes with it is pretty decent, it can handle it at ~3.8Ghz with no issues.

AMD will go 7nm next year, Intel is stuck on 14nm for all eternity.

good read

I do a shitload of mutlitasking so it adds up, it's to the point where my 3570k stutters on any remotely CPU heavy game unless I close literally everything else. I'm just not sure if I want to just upgrade my mobo and CPU now or just try to wait longer and just build a new PC during the next GPU + CPU generation

Yeah, on a G4560 maybe.

No.
I still rock a non-K i5 2500, and it doesnt hinder anything yet. It's all about GPUs nowadays.

I might get a cheap i7 3770K later on, as it uses the same socket.

yesterday I made a thread about cpus and I decided to go for the Ryzen 1600. but I forgot to ask about the motherboard. what would you recommend me

As I said above, anything B350. This isn't Intel, you don't need to go X370 if you want to oc. Ram support is a lot more stable now, pretty much anything up to 3200mhz should work without issues by now.

Make sure it has the ALC1220 soundchip. Some AM4 boards gave the ALC892 chip instead which will give you audio distortions.