What meaningful upgrades are there from an I5 2500k?

[pipnina]

I've had my sandy bridge I5 for a few years now and have begun using it for more than it was built for. I now use it for playing games, hosting servers, encoding x264 on the fly and rendering (not necessarily all at the same time). Using OBS to record just doesn't work in more CPU intensive games and doesn't work in higher quality presets for even the oldest of games (e.g.: Half Life 1)

 

I have a preference to have as many cores as possible as as many as 3 of the above tasks may be running simultaneously.

The real problem may well be my budget: £400 (Not $, important to note) And all electronics are more expensive in the Uk than they are in the US and Canada.

 

Help appreciated!

    ~pipnina

[AMICLG]

I would sell the i5 and get a 2600k or an 8350 but that would require you to get a new motherboard.

[xXxYOLOxSWAGxXx_420BlazeIt]

Sell it and upgrade the motherboard and CPU, the 2500k uses DDR3 right?

 

I wouldnt recommend the AMD 8320, (I have one that I use for video encoding and its about half as fast as my 3570k and 3770k) but I heard the 8350 is good.

[pipnina]

I don't know what I'd expect to get from selling 3-year-old technology that was only worth £140 at launch. But the FX 8350 and 9590 were contenders. 

 

One of the problems is how the passmark scoring works; I don't know if 1,400 points is a big difference or something I won't notice. http://www.cpubenchmark.net/

 

(Another is navigating Intel's website, but that's nothing new.)

[Deddie]

Sell i5, buy i7-3770K if your motherboard supports it so what motherboard do you have?

[tryphaa]

I would get a 4770k and a nice mobo with it.

[dizmo]

Keep it. You wont see any drastic improvements upgrading.

 

Not sure how you're having trouble my friend records find and he also runs a 2500k

[WildTurtle]

For 400 quid you can go on amazon.co.uk and get a 4770k and get a decent z87 board ( gigabyte z87 ud4h, msi z87 gd65, etc) and still have around 20 quid left over.

[DeViLzzz]

Uh op have you overclocked it to the max yet?

[pipnina]

I have a Gigabyte Z77X-D3H for a mobo and a GS 600 for a PSU.

 

I've heard bad things about haswell and it's tendancy to fry and not be much faster than it's ivy equivalent.

 

I really need a new CPU, I have even looked at some of the 6-core xeons but they are like 2.5Ghz.

 

I'll look into it.

 

(I don't know how to quote)

[Jack.EXE]

the 2500K is still one of the best chips around, just give it a nice overclock & be happy.

 

there's no CPU out right now (other than 2011 anyway) that will give you a tangible benifit.

 

Edit: I did find this: 

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819116934

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813131855

[Deddie]

I have a Gigabyte Z77X-D3H for a mobo and a GS 600 for a PSU.

 

I've heard bad things about haswell and it's tendancy to fry and not be much faster than it's ivy equivalent.

 

I really need a new CPU, I have even looked at some of the 6-core xeons but they are like 2.5Ghz.

 

I'll look into it.

 

(I don't know how to quote)

Get a 3770K then and OC it, you will probably get the same performance as with a 4770K for 130£ cheper.

[pipnina]

 

the 2500K is still one of the best chips around, just give it a nice overclock & be happy.

 

there's no CPU out right now (other than 2011 anyway) that will give you a tangible benifit.

 

That's what I feared...

[pipnina]

The difference between the I7 3770k and the I5 2500k is 3k passmark scores... Is that a lot?

[TheProfosist]

Sell i5, buy i7-3770K if your motherboard supports it so what motherboard do you have?

This is your cheapest best option right now I would think.

[MrImnotMLG]

I would say upgrade the CPU/MOBO and get newer generation parts.

 

AMD: a 8320

Intel: 3770k or 4770k

 

I personally like Asus/ Gigabyte motherboards but that is up to you.

[Deddie]

The difference between the I7 3770k and the I5 2500k is 3k passmark scores... Is that a lot?

Well a 4930K gets 3K more passmarks than the 3770K so you can decide if you think that is a lot.

[samuel]

Keep your awesome cpu and oc it a bit.

 

Sell it and upgrade the motherboard and CPU, the 2500k uses DDR3 right?

 

I wouldnt recommend the AMD 8320, (I have one that I use for video encoding and its about half as fast as my 3570k and 3770k) but I heard the 8350 is good.

FX 8350 and FX 8320 at same clock perform exactly the same. The diff is in voltage requiered to run at those speeds. If you really need more cores= get an FX 8320 and 4 Ghz OC is almost guatanteed.

[Cryptonite]

I've had my sandy bridge I5 for a few years now and have begun using it for more than it was built for. I now use it for playing games, hosting servers, encoding x264 on the fly and rendering (not necessarily all at the same time). Using OBS to record just doesn't work in more CPU intensive games and doesn't work in higher quality presets for even the oldest of games (e.g.: Half Life 1)

 

I have a preference to have as many cores as possible as as many as 3 of the above tasks may be running simultaneously.

The real problem may well be my budget: £400 (Not $, important to note) And all electronics are more expensive in the Uk than they are in the US and Canada.

 

Help appreciated!

    ~pipnina

Keep it, it's still an amazing CPU no i5 is worth getting that can really outperform the i5 2500k by much. The only thing you can get that would be worth while would be something like an i7 extreme 6 core.

 

Sell it and upgrade the motherboard and CPU, the 2500k uses DDR3 right?

 

I wouldnt recommend the AMD 8320, (I have one that I use for video encoding and its about half as fast as my 3570k and 3770k) but I heard the 8350 is good.

LOL, I'm sorry mate but you definitely don't know what you're talking about, the 3570k isn't much faster than a 2500k, not worth an upgrade and the 2500k overclocks like a beast so that cancels out the performance difference. when both are overclocked to their respective comfort zones.

[DeViLzzz]

OP you still didn't answer my question about what oc you have gotten with the chip.  Have you even overclocked it?  

[pipnina]

 

 

OP you still didn't answer my question about what oc you have gotten with the chip.  Have you even overclocked it?

 

Assuming OP means "original poster" then I'll assume that was directed at me.

 

I have had it overclocked to 4.0Ghz and it still failed to record x264 in any quality higher than "ultrafast" in Half Life 1.

 

Other more recent games failed entirely.

[xXxYOLOxSWAGxXx_420BlazeIt]

Keep it, it's still an amazing CPU no i5 is worth getting that can really outperform the i5 2500k by much. The only thing you can get that would be worth while would be something like an i7 extreme 6 core.

 

LOL, I'm sorry mate but you definitely don't know what you're talking about, the 3570k isn't much faster than a 2500k, not worth an upgrade and the 2500k overclocks like a beast so that cancels out the performance difference. when both are overclocked to their respective comfort zones.

I didnt recommend he upgrade to a 3570k. Learn to read.

 

I was comparing my experience of video encoding on those 3 processors (which I do about 20 - 30 times per day).  The 8320 takes twice as long on the x264 slower preset as the 3570k and the 3770k. As he is getting it for straeming and using the x264/ffmpeg encoder I said to not get that. Somebody in a post above mine talked about the 8350 and 8320, that is why I mentioned them.

 

So why not read my post before posting something so dumb?

[Cryptonite]

Assuming OP means "original poster" then I'll assume that was directed at me.

 

I have had it overclocked to 4.0Ghz and it still failed to record x264 in any quality higher than "ultrafast" in Half Life 1.

 

Other more recent games failed entirely.

wut? by the way, you know you can hit 4.5 GHz with ease right? I mean you can possibly go further but 4.5 GHz is uber safe.

[Kiwiandapple]

Assuming OP means "original poster" then I'll assume that was directed at me.

 

I have had it overclocked to 4.0Ghz and it still failed to record x264 in any quality higher than "ultrafast" in Half Life 1.

 

Other more recent games failed entirely.

 

Yes you are the OP. 

You should not test overclocks by games, but with an CPU/RAM stress test. 

It seems to me you just dont have a stable overclock. 

 

I have no idea what you are talking about with x264.. sorry, but that is just weird. x265 what? 

 

@Cryptonite, on 19 Feb 2014 - 5:34 PM, said:

wut? by the way, you know you can hit 4.5 GHz with ease right? I mean you can possibly go further but 4.5 GHz is uber safe.

 

 

I assume he just doesn't know all to well how to overclock and it was unstable as hell. 

[pipnina]

 

 

wut? by the way, you know you can hit 4.5 GHz with ease right? I mean you can possibly go further but 4.5 GHz is uber safe.

 

I'm not sure. My 4.0Ghz overclock caused random booting errors. It sometimes took 3-4 attempts to get the bios to flash.

My core voltage was around 1.35