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2500k to wait or not to wait...

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gammaray

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that is the question.

Should i get one right now for $210ish, or wait 6 months to see what intel is gonna release?

it's mostly for video games.
 
It depends. If it's mostly for games, what resolution are you playing at? It's likely that unless nvidia surprises all of us, unless you're running a high-end multi-gpu setup (I'm talking two 7970's here), that 2500k is going to perform the same as any better processor in high res games.
 
No point waiting - Ivy Bridge will only be 10% faster clock for clock.
The only point in waiting is if you think there will be a firesale on Sandy Bridge mobos and cpu's.
Don't think Ivy Bridge will be cheap either when it arrives.
So pick up a 2500k and a Z68 mobo that will be compatible via a bios upgrade to Ivy Bridge. P67 will not be compatible.
 
LagunaX said:
No point waiting - Ivy Bridge will only be 10% faster clock for clock.
The only point in waiting is if you think there will be a firesale on Sandy Bridge mobos and cpu's.
Don't think Ivy Bridge will be cheap either when it arrives.
So pick up a 2500k and a Z68 mobo that will be compatible via a bios upgrade to Ivy Bridge. P67 will not be compatible.
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Wrong, my Asus P67P8 Deluxe already has a BIOS that will allow IB CPUs, granted no PCIe3.0 but for now not a huge deal I am not doing GPGPU computing.

IMO pick up a 2500k, and a Z68 MB and if you want the new IB CPU's down the road in a year you can drop one in and get a boost if you desire. But the waiting game on this update isn't worth it IMO IB isn't going to be a huge speed boost and I fear Haswell is only going to be 10-20% faster than IB, now that will be an upgrade from SB....
 
LagunaX said:
No point waiting - Ivy Bridge will only be 10% faster clock for clock.
The only point in waiting is if you think there will be a firesale on Sandy Bridge mobos and cpu's.
Don't think Ivy Bridge will be cheap either when it arrives.
So pick up a 2500k and a Z68 mobo that will be compatible via a bios upgrade to Ivy Bridge. P67 will not be compatible.
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Yup, what he said. You will get a good performance boost if you upgrade now, plus you will be able to switch to an Ivy Bridge based processor later if you want.
 
gammaray: are you building a new system and keeping your present one or are you going to sell off your present parts and upgrade to an i5-2500k?

Here's why. Please don't take this as bragging but I am fortunate enough to have three systems at home (I don't golf rather I build and play with computers). Two of them have OCd 2500k chips and one has an OCd 1100T chip (see my sig below). The Intel CPUs are on the Z68 chipsets and the AMD 1100T is on the new 990FX chipset. The Intels OC better and are faster. However, if you already have a 1090T you have a very fast CPU for the forseeable future. What video card do you have? The 790FX is still a solid chipset and you might be better upgrading your video card and perhaps overclocking your 1090T if you haven't done so..
On the otherside, you will get a good price selling the 1090T but I doubt you will get much for a 790FX mb. The cost for a 2500k is @$229 and a solid mb will set you back another $160. That's nearly $400!

Having all three systems below, the Intels are faster in benchmarks but if I put the fastest video card in the AMD 1100T rig it would narrow the gap if not beat the Intels.

What's your budget?
 
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guskline said:
gammaray: are you building a new system and keeping your present one or are you going to sell off your present parts and upgrade to an i5-2500k?

Here's why. Please don't take this as bragging but I am fortunate enough to have three systems at home (I don't golf rather I build and play with computers). Two of them have OCd 2500k chips and one has an OCd 1100T chip (see my sig below). The Intel CPUs are on the Z68 chipsets and the AMD 1100T is on the new 990FX chipset. The Intels OC better and are faster. However, if you already have a 1090T you have a very fast CPU for the forseeable future. What video card do you have? The 790FX is still a solid chipset and you might be better upgrading your video card and perhaps overclocking your 1090T if you haven't done so..
On the otherside, you will get a good price selling the 1090T but I doubt you will get much for a 790FX mb. The cost for a 2500k is @$229 and a solid mb will set you back another $160. That's nearly $400!

Having all three systems below, the Intels are faster in benchmarks but if I put the fastest video card in the AMD 1100T rig it would narrow the gap if not beat the Intels.

What's your budget?
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yes, i will sell the current one before i get my 2500k. Budget is $1000ish. hoping to get $450ish for the one i got.

case: cm storm scout
mb: msi gd70 790fx
cpu: 1090T
ram: 8gb g.skills 1.5v
HDs: 500gb black, 74 gbraptor and 32 ssd ocz vertex
psu: corsair 650tx
video card: ati 5850.
 
gammary, NICE present rig. Tells us what you would build for $1000. BTW, with the CRAZY HD prices right now you may want to keep what you have!
 
nanaki333 said:
if you keep waiting for the next thing, you're never going to upgrade.
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While that is true, given his present rig, I'd recommend waiting for Ivy Bridge and the next phase of the AMD 7xxx video cards to be released before upgrading.

Honestly, upgrading from what you have to a 2500k seems like more of a lateral upgrade. It is an upgrade, but not a huge one. I personally went from a Q6600 @ 3.2 GHz with a mechanical hdd to a 2500k @ 4.3 GHz with a Crucial m4 128 GB SSD. Now that's an upgrade!

BTW, are you selling your whole rig, or are you going to reuse some of the parts?
 
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kalrith said:
While that is true, given his present rig, I'd recommend waiting for Ivy Bridge and the next phase of the AMD 7xxx video cards to be released before upgrading.

Honestly, upgrading from what you have to a 2500k seems like more of a lateral upgrade. It is an upgrade, but not a huge one. I personally went from a Q6600 @ 3.2 GHz with a mechanical hdd to a 2500k @ 4.3 GHz with a Crucial m4 128 GB SSD. Now that's an upgrade!

BTW, are you selling your whole rig, or are you going to reuse some of the parts?
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i will probably sell everything
 
With a single 6950 2GB, I went from a PhII 955BE overclocked to a 2500k overclocked. It's better, but I'm usually GPU limited anyway with what I've got.

Given that the 1090T is a solid piece of work, I'd wait. It will still have significant resale value in 6 months due to being about the best AM3 (not all boards can use BD, and to be honest, the 1090T is better than most BD models in most situations).

As a bonus, you can hold on to the 5850, which still holds up well right now, and see how the dust settles between Nvidia and AMD on the GPU side. Right now the 7970 is awesome but ultra expensive, the GTX580 is overpriced and getting old, 6950/6970 are old and didn't offer much over the 5850/5870, etc. It's just a terrible time to spend a lot of money on a GPU unless you just have cash to burn.
 
Arkaign said:
With a single 6950 2GB, I went from a PhII 955BE overclocked to a 2500k overclocked. It's better, but I'm usually GPU limited anyway with what I've got.

Given that the 1090T is a solid piece of work, I'd wait. It will still have significant resale value in 6 months due to being about the best AM3 (not all boards can use BD, and to be honest, the 1090T is better than most BD models in most situations).

As a bonus, you can hold on to the 5850, which still holds up well right now, and see how the dust settles between Nvidia and AMD on the GPU side. Right now the 7970 is awesome but ultra expensive, the GTX580 is overpriced and getting old, 6950/6970 are old and didn't offer much over the 5850/5870, etc. It's just a terrible time to spend a lot of money on a GPU unless you just have cash to burn.
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Agree 100% here. Waiting until at least Kepler is out to replace your 5850 and 1090T with IB would be ideal.
 
Arkaign said:
With a single 6950 2GB, I went from a PhII 955BE overclocked to a 2500k overclocked. It's better, but I'm usually GPU limited anyway with what I've got.

Given that the 1090T is a solid piece of work, I'd wait. It will still have significant resale value in 6 months due to being about the best AM3 (not all boards can use BD, and to be honest, the 1090T is better than most BD models in most situations).

As a bonus, you can hold on to the 5850, which still holds up well right now, and see how the dust settles between Nvidia and AMD on the GPU side. Right now the 7970 is awesome but ultra expensive, the GTX580 is overpriced and getting old, 6950/6970 are old and didn't offer much over the 5850/5870, etc. It's just a terrible time to spend a lot of money on a GPU unless you just have cash to burn.
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hmmm, you guys are breaking up my fun. But i tend to agree, i was about to trigger a 2500k for 209$, but i will wait now i think.
 
The replacement for the 2500k is the i5-3570k which is rumoured to be releasing in the week of April 1-8. With it that close, I would wait, but there is unlikely to be any practical difference in performance (just lower power consumption/TDP so possibly less heat or higher overclocks).
 
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