When to upgrade 2600k

[yale0083]

Hey everyone, recently I have been wondering if it is time to upgrade my i7 2600k CPU. Is their any reason to upgrade to a 6700k for games at 4k and just the usual internet surfing? I have my 2600k overclocked to 4.5 but i still get about 38 fps on the physics portion of Firestrike Ultra (physics score of about 11000). I would like to get better performance but is the upgrade to a new CPU worth the 700-800 dollars I am going to have to spend to upgrade?

 

My set up

-i7 2600k

-980 ti hybrid

-16 gigs of ram at 1333 ( new 2400 speed ram is on the way)

 

[Sauron]

@yale0083 welcome to the forum and 'please follow your topics!

 

No, in my opinion it doesn't make any sense for you to upgrade at this point. Firestrike is just a stress test, it doesn't really mean anything - focus on the performance you get in real tasks. Besides, a skylake cpu would grant you a maximum of 30% extra performance in CPU INTENSIVE tasks, aka not games.

 

At 4k, your gpu is much more important than your cpu: if you feel you want more performance, spend those 700 bucks in a second 980ti for SLI.

 

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by the way, ram speed doesn't affect your gaming performance in any way, there was no reason to upgrade to a 2400mhz kit

[Allshevski]

Don't post firestrike results, better run some games. If your framerates are high, there is no need to update it.

[Majestic]

Depends on the game, resolution and what you're after. If max framerate concerns you, there are some games that benefit from a faster chip.

 

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All 1080p with 980TI.

[jcw150]

I would wait, the 2600k is still a great cpu and when it is overclocked it performs very close to a 6700k

[crystal6tak]

Hey everyone, recently I have been wondering if it is time to upgrade my i7 2600k CPU. Is their any reason to upgrade to a 6700k for games at 4k and just the usual internet surfing? I have my 2600k overclocked to 4.5 but i still get about 38 fps on the physics portion of Firestrike Ultra (physics score of about 11000). I would like to get better performance but is the upgrade to a new CPU worth the 700-800 dollars I am going to have to spend to upgrade?

 

My set up

-i7 2600k

-980 ti hybrid

-16 gigs of ram at 1333 ( new 2400 speed ram is on the way)

Nope, at least in terms of gaming performance, you'll see minuscule performance increase going to a 6700K. You'll see noticeable improvement if you overclock a 6700K/4790K but honestly the improvement does not justify a new CPU and motherboard.

 

Probably only worth it if you upgrade to an Intel 6+ core chip. Although with that, you'll only see significant improvement on programs that actually uses more than 4 threads. Gaming performance like I said earlier, will see minuscule performance increase.

 

So if you only care about gaming, stay with the 2600K, if you use other CPU intensive task such as for media production, upgrade to 5820K or better.

[airdeano]

digital foundry did a pretty marking for all the platform i7:

 

[SkilledRebuilds]

^This.

 

Plus faster ram only helps when your CPU is proper pegged with almost 100% to full CPU usage. For gaming, hardly any games benefit cos they don't push that hard.

Games (even shitty ports) are pushing higher than normal CPU usage at times, and the faster ram MAY help you with super high CPU usage.

I'm not talkin about CPU Bound games either, just games that push 80%+ CPU usage on average with spikes into the near 95-100% area will prob benefit from faster ram.

[Enderman]

yeah its about time for an upgrade

[BlazingGunnerFTW]

Hey everyone, recently I have been wondering if it is time to upgrade my i7 2600k CPU. Is their any reason to upgrade to a 6700k for games at 4k and just the usual internet surfing? I have my 2600k overclocked to 4.5 but i still get about 38 fps on the physics portion of Firestrike Ultra (physics score of about 11000). I would like to get better performance but is the upgrade to a new CPU worth the 700-800 dollars I am going to have to spend to upgrade?

 

My set up

-i7 2600k

-980 ti hybrid

-16 gigs of ram at 1333 ( new 2400 speed ram is on the way)

Why does getting a slightly higher score mean so much to you? It really shouldn't.

 

It won't matter. The 700-800 dollars you have to spend is NOT worth it.

 

If your not satisfied with performance, maybe you should overclock it.

 

The 2600k is really good.

 

The only reason it performs not as good as the chips is because of cpu performance, which can be justified by an overclock, not due to any factors like bottlenecking.

 

Keep the damn thing.

[Coaxialgamer]

Hey everyone, recently I have been wondering if it is time to upgrade my i7 2600k CPU. Is their any reason to upgrade to a 6700k for games at 4k and just the usual internet surfing? I have my 2600k overclocked to 4.5 but i still get about 38 fps on the physics portion of Firestrike Ultra (physics score of about 11000). I would like to get better performance but is the upgrade to a new CPU worth the 700-800 dollars I am going to have to spend to upgrade?

 

My set up

-i7 2600k

-980 ti hybrid

-16 gigs of ram at 1333 ( new 2400 speed ram is on the way)

You should need to uprade yet .

 

Wait for kaby lake or skylake e !

 

Or Oc your cpu to 5ghz !

[yale0083]

Thanks for the tips everyone, I think I will just stick with the 2600k like most of you suggest. I might get another GPU for sli to increase my performance in games.