Selling my 2500k

[Dice144]

Selling my 2500k and my water cooling gear to switch to a smaller form factor. Part of me think I am insane for selling it to my friend for so cheap. It was a micro atx board Asus ROG, long story short the second PCI Express lane didn't work when I was trying to play around with bitcoin mining. When I brought it never needed to try the second pci express slot. Having it not work is driving me insane.

So instead of RMAing it giving friend a huge discount.

However, my backup gamer is a AMD X6 1095. How bad do you think Skyrim, Starcraft 2 will be compared to my beasty 2500k at 4.4 Ghz.

When I return from vacation later this month plan to overspend on a 4770k (hope the price hike will be lower by then) and a itx motherboard.

I will be skipping custom water cool and using a cheaper solution.

 

[VirtualLarry]

I think that the 1095T will be good for most games, but StarCraft II might suffer, being that it seems to prefer high-clocked Intel CPUs for some reason, and doesn't really take advantage of more than two cores.

 

[frozentundra123456]

I think that the 1095T will be good for most games, but StarCraft II might suffer, being that it seems to prefer high-clocked Intel CPUs for some reason, and doesn't really take advantage of more than two cores.

Starcraft 2 would probably be fine for single player, but multiplayer would probably be cpu limited with a 1095T. I played single player at ultra with a i5 and was gpu limited with a HD7770. But when I played a 10 player skirmish match, I was able to max out the cpu.

 

[inf64]

Best is to see it for yourself (if you will be CPU limited that is).

 

[24601]

If you plan on overclocking that 4770k, selling your water-cooling gear would be a bad idea (If your custom water is better than high end air to start with).

Also, CPU performance regression is the most annoying thing possible to deal with when gaming, as you can fiddle all you want with the settings, but you'll usually have to disable a good chunk of important settings to get your minimum frame rates up.

 

[Dice144]

I am currently using the Rasa RS240 kit. So it was a pretty big step above air.

 

[Plimogz]

SC2 is pretty much a worst case scenario for a many-coar AMD part. But you can at least get a good further boost through an OC on the NB, if you choose to go beyond what straight core frequency nets you.

I originally picked up my 2500K to play it, and to this day I don't think that you can beat overclocked Sandy Bridge "K" with an AMD in Starcraft 2.

Though with how tightly things have been getting locked down overclocking-wise on the Intel side, I wouldn't be all that surprised if it was in fact possible to get better performance out of a cheaper unlocked+OCed AMD chip VS locked i3/i5 for the same amount of money, in even this most CPU/"performance per core"-bound game.

 

[Dice144]

Yeah my AMD was OC to 4 Ghz and around 2400 NB when it was my main system. Since then I got a 7970 video card to update my aging 6950.

 

[Essence_of_War]

Both SC2 and Skyrim are sort of notoriously CPU bound, and really demand strong single-core performance. What resolution are you playing at?

Tom's has some benches 1920x1080 @ ultra+AA:
Starcraft 2
Skyrim

Summary:
The phenom x6 is probably fine depending on your res and detail settings, but SB does MUCH better in both average and minimum frame rates.

 

[Dice144]

I play at 2560 x 1440 on a 27" monitor. Also have a side monitor going at 1080 for movies while playing SC2.

Boy I forgot how much slower stock AMD X6 was on Starcraft. Went from 120 fps+ at start of game to around 80-85 fps. By the end the AMD was crying barely getting 30 fps. Mostly around 25-27 fps. However this was at stock 3.2 Ghz. The FPS do not tell the whole story. On my 2500k @ 4.4 Ghz it was butter smooth 97% of the time.

Stepped it up to 3.8 Ghz but had to go back to work so will test it more when home.

Skyrim on the other hand "felt" fine. I know that is not a good test but it was a quick and dirty test.