Is it still obsolete

[Syrune54]

Hey so i've really wanted to upgrade my graphics card to get better performance but does the Core i7 2600K can handle newer games like shadow of the tomb raider.im going to pair with a GTX 1060 or a 1070 if necessary cuz i find a rly good deals on that processor and with the low price of DDR3 ram

[Vegetable]

It will be fine, but know that in some newer games your CPU will be the bottleneck. My 4790k overclocked to 4.7Ghz can bottleneck my R9 Fury in both BO4 and PUBG, so a 2600k at any clocks would do the same in those games. Keep in mind a 1060 is slightly slower than a Fury and the 1070 is a bit faster, so if you went that route the bottleneck would be even more severe. Regardless, the 2600k can totally run any game at 45-60fps provided it backed up by a decent GPU. Its by no means obsolete but its just a year or two from not being able to run the newest games at good fps anymore.

[Syrune54]

2 minutes ago, Vegetable said:

It will be fine, but know that in some newer games your CPU will be the bottleneck. My 4790k overclocked to 4.7Ghz can bottleneck my R9 Fury in both BO4 and PUBG, so a 2600k at any clocks would do the same in those games. Keep in mind a 1060 is slightly slower than a Fury and the 1070 is a bit faster, so if you went that route the bottleneck would be even more severe. Regardless, the 2600k can totally run any game at 45-60fps provided it backed up by a decent GPU. Its by no means obsolete but its just a year or two from not being able to run the newest games at good fps anymore.

oh cool 

[-rascal-]

Gamer's Nexus 'Tech Gezus' recently did a revisit review of the i7-2600K.

It still holds up quite well in games, but recommended that it be overclocked.

Games that favor clock speeds rather than extra cores, or IPC, the i7-2600K is still a good CPU to hold onto for another year or two.

https://www.gamersnexus.net/hwreviews/3412-intel-i7-2600k-revisit-2018-benchmarks-vs-9900k-ryzen-more

 

 

[aisle9]

15 minutes ago, Andrew54 said:

Hey so i've really wanted to upgrade my graphics card to get better performance but does the Core i7 2600K can handle newer games like shadow of the tomb raider.im going to pair with a GTX 1060 or a 1070 if necessary cuz i find a rly good deals on that processor and with the low price of DDR3 ram

I mean, barring a nuclear holocaust, things aren't likely to become less obsolete over time, but the 2600K was never obsolete to begin with. If you overclock it, it'll be good for a while yet. Once games start to demand significantly higher IPC or, more likely, start to tax more than 8 threads, it'll be a problem...but so will everything pre-Ryzen.