Is my i5 2500k finally becoming a bottleneck?

[BD231]

Get a 3770k or wait for skylake. People need to accept that a 2500k is too slow for a 980ti level card.

LOL. So much troll.

 

[WhoBeDaPlaya]

I recently upgraded from an i7 920 to an i7 4790K. From what I've read it's a 100% increase in performance. Maybe you think that hex-core will be dominant in the near future. I'm willing to bet against that in the next 3-4 year window.

Unless you do heavy encoding and such you can do without a hex+ core cpu until some time in the future.

Is that stock vs stock? Otherwise, with max typical OCs (say 4GHz for the 920, 4.5GHz for the 4790K), it's more like a 40% performance increase.