Will I ever upgrade my 2500k

[Arachnotronic]

I have an Ivy Bridge chip, 32GB of RAM, and a GTX 770. I see no need to upgrade my CPU, but am in desperate need for a faster GPU.

So, as much as I'd love the e-peen associated with a HSW-E, I can't really justify it.

 

[Despoiler]

If DirectX 12 is all it promises to be I don't think I'll need to upgrade for a few years yet.

It depends on how quickly game developers decide how to use the extra CPU time and better scaling. If they make the same decisions that they are now, but use DX12 then yes your current CPU will fair better than it is now. If they build their game by fully exploiting the benefits of DX12 then the CPU could once again approach parity with the GPU.

 

[poohbear]

Most people won't see a difference because some people sacrifice performance for a bit more eye candy. The i7 only makes a difference if you run settings that pump out a higher framerate at least in BF4 or a rig with a beefy gpu configuration.

Those gamegpu charts that fly about with those cpu numbers are about spot on from my experience.

So ure saying with max settings in these games the CPU type is removed from the equation & workload is shifted to GPU?