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Upgrading from 670 to 970 with i5 2500k@4.5ghz

j03h4gLund

j03h4gLund

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Will the i5 bottleneck my rig, and if not - what eventually will? This i5 isn't going to last forever... 😀 (See below)
 
I use my computer mainly for gaming, lately on an alpha version of Ark:Survival Evolved which is getting better but not fully optimized yet. So Im wondering how much of a benefit Ill see if I upgrade mobo/CPU as well.
 
Ark: Survival is one of the worst optimized games in gaming history. I would certainly not plan my upgrades around a single unopotmized game. The i5 is good enough to warrant an upgrade to the 970, and yes it won't last forever. You can see some clear advantages already to having a new i7, but the i5's performance is still plenty acceptable.
 
j03h4gLund said:
I use my computer mainly for gaming, lately on an alpha version of Ark:Survival Evolved which is getting better but not fully optimized yet. So Im wondering how much of a benefit Ill see if I upgrade mobo/CPU as well.
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I think you should wait to upgrade, at the very least until Cannonlake in 2017. You can sit tight with the SNB, knowing that you still have a damn potent chip, especially with a healthy overclock to 4.8GHz.

If you're the kind of person who upgrades because you like upgrading (*raises hand*) then obviously I'd say go for a Skylake or something. But if this is 100% about pragmatism, I would take the money you'd spend on a new CPU/mobo, stuff it away in the bank, and come back in a couple of years to get a lot more CPU/platform bang for your buck.
 
j03h4gLund said:
Will the i5 bottleneck my rig, and if not - what eventually will? This i5 isn't going to last forever... 😀 (See below)
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See GAME in sig below.

No, it's still viable, and the GTX970 is a nice match for the OC'ed 2500K... but this is probably it's swan song. Ask me that same question in 2 years...
 
I noticed an improvement going from a 2500k to a 2600k with my 970. But part of that is I could overclock the 2600K higher.

I think both are a great pair to a 970, they will all fall out of date around the same time.
 
Yeah Ark runs like garbage even on absolute beastly machines. Nothing short of serious optimization work by the devs is going to make that game smooth
 
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