Hi guys a question for all of you I'm running a i7 2600k water cooled and have it running so it can clock up to 4.3 if it wants ive got 16gb corsair ddr3 on asus board... also got a msi 970gtx 4gb. been looking for a while but don't know what would be an upgrade id see any difference. mainly use pc for net stuff and gaming, elite dangerous, farming sim(lol...I know), warface and steel ocean... really like strategy games. would I notice going to a i7-6700k...or even i7-5820? or can I push mine further? any help would be good thanks guys
Apparently in some games faster ram nets better results. http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/d...it-finally-time-to-upgrade-your-core-i5-2500k Well worth a read.
yea just had a read... thing is will it make that much difference.....don't think 32gb will make any....just wondering if its my cpu...
some games might notice a slight improvement - I only changed my 2600k to a 3770k for the igpu and ocl1.2 - gaming wise since both run at 4.3 it didn't make any noticeable difference for me.
that's what I'm worried about......if I do upgrade I want to notice it.....that's why I thought about the 5820
Difference is likely to be minimal, if any. You can probably push a 2600K further than 4.3GHz quite safely, especially on water cooling.
its not like its a problem with games...I noticed a massive difference when I got the 970...just wanted to speed it up...if that's possible....any ideas how far a 2600k can go?
Then really dude stick with what you have. I have three rigs in my house ranging from a AMD 1050T through a 2ghz 8 core Ivy ES to a 5820k and I barely notice a difference doing day to day tasks (you know? emails browsing and chatting to friends). Mostly because they are all SSD based. My 5820k rig certainly does feel snappier than the rest but the rest are running at pretty much half the speed or less. I really don't think you would see a huge difference coming from a 2600k given it's still such an amazingly capable CPU. I would definitely look into getting it faster though
it's largely down to the chip, board & cooling - but the likelihood is that at least 4.5 & probably 4.8 with decent water cooling would be reasonably achievable without sky high voltages; though you 'may' find that you need to lock the cpu voltage. Well, YMMV, but i personally found that both the 2600K & 3770K were much happier with a fixed voltage when o/cing - whereas with my 5960X it's the opposite. Above 4.8 could be doable if you've either lucked out with the cpu or are prepared to noticeably increase the voltage - but 4.8 was always seen as being pretty decent with the gains being minimal above.
For Stratagy titles you would notice a dif and would see gains in minimum fps across the board depending on resolution your playing at. Wether its worth £500 for Mobo CPU and memory is highly debatable.
hi guys....well ive oc it up to 4.85 and it seems happy....not sure why it keeps dropping down to 1.6 when no load... just done the custompc benchmark.... Image Editing 56359 Time:212.705 Encoding 223727 Time:53.583 OpenCL 63941 KSamples/sec: 1535 Heavy Multitasking 146609 Time:66.708 System Score 109870 Intel Performance Index 96.00% ..that's with the overclock...what do you think?
