When the i5 2500K came out in 2011 it was such an unprecedented improvement over the gen before it that stores and OEM builders were always short on this still magnificent chip.
Yes, the i7 6700K is about 35% faster but you're talking about a 4 generation gap.
Keep your 2500K but you must...
How about 2 relatively new EVGA GTX 760 SC 2GB @ 1214/7800 + 2 BFG 512MB GeForce 7950GTs for your 1 X290 4GB?
I doubt you'd go for it but it doesn't hurt to ask.
Bump for a great price on a still great GPU!
I'm afraid nVidia considers themselves without serious competition from anybody even AMD and, human nature being what it is (evil), they are doing things that they know their customers do NOT like . Personally I've had it with nVidia (I never thought I'd say that!) and am looking forward to my 2...
On other forums like nVidia's own GeForce forums many people are complaining that nVidia is purposely dumbing down the 700/600/500 line to force people to 'upgrade' to Maxwell. If this is true I'll be going AMD next time for the 1st time since 2005.
I made the mistake of buying a 3TB Seagate Hard drive which my BIOS and Windows 10 Build 10547 only sees 2.2TB. I want that extra 746GB back! I payed extra for it. Anything I can do?
I feel like a fool for buying not 1 but 2 GTX 760 2GB last year. Terrible drivers, BSOD. I'm trying to make a deal with someone in the For Sale/Trade forums for 2 R9 290 4GB.
How do you feel about dual-booting? Right now I am dual-booting Windows 10 Pro 10130 64-bit and Windows XP Pro SP3. There a lot of older games I paid good money for that can only be run in Windows XP.
Probably a 10-20% increase in performance if the last 4 generations are an indication. I'm still sticking with my"old" i5 2500K @ 4.635GHz. The GPUs are our main concern.
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