2500K still the best all rounder?

[cytg111]

I think if you got anything sandy or afterwards you're set for the next 5 years, put HT on that and make it 7.

 

[FalseChristian]

I have an i5 2500K overclocked to 4.5GHz and even my with my new 2 eVGA GTX 760 2GB SLI my CPU is still NOT the bottleneck.

 

[Belkov]

I can't even find 2500Ks for sale anymore at the usual places (Microcenter, Newegg), so that instantly puts it out of the price running for someone looking to buy new at those places. Maybe you can find good deals on remaining stock, I don't know, but if so that can't last for that much longer.

Telling someone to try to buy a 2500K for a new rig may not be the best advice.

You can't find it because Intel stopped the production of some sandy bridge CPUs including i5 2500K and i7 2600K.

There is something that is not mention here - the performance difference brought by SB was significantly higher than the difference between SB vs IB and even between SB vs HW. However there is no point to be arguing wich CPU is better. For a new build HW is the right choice.

Still i don't think to upgrade my 2500K anytime soon - it is completely enough in almost every real situation even at stock speeds.

 

[ashetos]

Core i5 2500K does not support PCI-E 3.0 which allows you to do some cool stuff with a suitable board.

 

[Belkov]

What kind of stuff?

 

[chimaxi83]

What kind of stuff?

At this time? Absolutely nothing.

 

[ashetos]

What kind of stuff?

Run latency sensitive GPGPU workloads in conjuction with high perfomance PCI-E I/O controllers. Very interesting for research!

I said cool stuff, not common stuff!

 

[Belkov]

However i think i will wait for broadwell or even skylake to change my sandy...
For now i will concentrate on GPU upgrades.

 

[moonbogg]

Contribute to revived dead thread to declare myself a leet gamer with a good all around sandy bridge. Sandy bridge for life.

 

[Keysplayr]

The only reason I haven't "upgraded" to IB or Haswell is just that. The very small increments in IPC isn't even worth the cost of new mobo etc. etc. Plus CPU. A lot of headache for a little gain. My i5 2500K is just peachy and probably will be for a few years to come at the rate Intel is improving performance.

 

[StrangerGuy]

Of course it is when you consider it is a 2011 chip.

 

[Revolution 11]

Do you guys even notice the IPC gains from SB to IvB and Haswell? It's single digits clock for clock.. that's not really noticeable frankly.

Is there a reason to upgrade from a 2500K to a newer quad core? It's 2 generations old and there's still absolutely no reason to switch.. Intel is so slack without competition.

One of my friends upgraded for emulation like Dolphin and the IPC is actually very very noticeable. I don't think Dolphin uses AVX in a substantial manner but Haswell has improved some component of SSE2 that Dolphin uses. A 3.7 Haswell acts like a 4.5 Sandy Bridge.

For some applications, Haswell can be very nice.

 

[SeanJ76]

Yeah you aren't going to find a better overclocking cpu for gaming. I've had my 2500k for over 3 yrs running 5.0ghz on air, hooked up to 2x Evga 670 GTX FTW Sli'ed and have had 0 problems. I came across a great versus benchmark/comparison of the 2500k vs the 4670k.
Turns out the 2500k is still the better cpu to own, power usage goes through the roof on the 4670k when you overclock it from stock to 4.5ghz(47% increase in power usage) Whereas the 2500k uses only an additional 9% to reach 4.5ghz-
"What's quite interesting to see is how the wattage of our test system increased while maintaining 4.5 GHz stably. The 2500K needed 9.4 percent more power and in case of the 4670K the increase was a whopping 47 percent. We were really surprised to see that overclocking the 2500K by more than 30 percent only accounted for a 9.3 percent increase in power consumption of our testsystem. Such a low number is very unusual".
Here's the review-
http://www.ocaholic.ch/modules/smartsection/item.php?itemid=1129&page=14

"Should you be thinking about replacing your Core i5-2500K setup with a Core i5-4670K, we can tell you that this step can be skipped. Since power consumption doesn't go through the roof we would highly recommend to overclock your i5-2500K and live for another one or two years with a slightly higher power consumption".

As homeles has noted, this is a thread that has been dead for nearly a year. Your input is appreciated, but we ask that users not unnecessarily resurrect old threads

-Thanks
ViRGE

 

[Homeles]

You're a year late.