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2500k and gtx 970 still a good combo?

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dontsh00tmesanta

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Got a cheap $50 from work

Has an i3 211 8 gb ram and 120gb ssd

With an msi mobo

Was thinking of using it to replace my 8320 rig with gtx 970

Does the combo still perform?

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I'm confused the title says i5 and the body says i3. But yeah 2500k plus 970 is still ok for 1080p gaming at 60hz

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I am using a GTX 1070 with my 2500k at 4-4.3Ghz for everyday use. It works great but I use 2133Mhz Ram as well.

I happen to maintain a hobbyist channel showcasing some benchmaks of my systems, but the cpu is highly overclocked in those, if you are interested.

https://www.youtube.com/user/toutagamon/search?query=GTX+1070+i5+2500k

Oh and here are the 970 + i5 2500k ones

https://www.youtube.com/user/toutagamon/search?query=GTX+970+i5+2500k

And you can also replace the i5 2500k query with i7-860 for which I also have many benchmarks for both cards and is closer to a more relaxed i5-2500k.

I should have threads summing up all these runs like the one in my signature, but I have grown lazy lately.
 
dontsh00tmesanta said:
Got a cheap $50 from work

Has an i3 211 8 gb ram and 120gb ssd

With an msi mobo

Was thinking of using it to replace my 8320 rig with gtx 970

Does the combo still perform?

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The 2500k was the sweet spot for a lot of folks, me included. Highly overclockable at the time and the best performance to cost chip that Sandy had. All my opinion of course but I used it daily until I upgraded to a Ryzen 5 1600.
 
dontsh00tmesanta said:
Either of ya wanna help a fellow out?

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If i still had it I would. I gifted the entire PC to my brother. 16 GB ram, 6870 gpu from xfx and a 800w 80 plus gold fully modular psu from seasonic. He got a very good pc for his purposes.
 
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