i5 2500k Does it worth ?

[SebFive]

Hello !

I am on the way to upgrade my CPU i5 2300 to i5 2500k, but I'm wondering if it's worth it. Will I get more fps in games such as witcher 3 or gta 5 ?

My PC spec is :

- i5 2300

- MSI GTX 660 2 gb

- be quiet 650 W

- 8 gb ram

[LokiFire]

maybe but your bottleneck is that GTX six sixty

[Fetzie]

Hello !

I am on the way to upgrade my CPU i5 2300 to i5 2500k, but I'm wondering if it's worth it. Will I get more fps in games such as witcher 3 or gta 5 ?

My PC spec is :

- i5 2300

- MSI GTX 660 2 gb

- be quiet 650 W

- 8 gb ram

 

Unlikely to be noticeable, unless you're also overclocking the 2500K.

[Fictionvl]

maybe but your bottleneck is that GTX six sixty

uhm... wat

 

it wont bottleneck that 660 at all, in fact if he gets a solid 4.8 overclock he can run a 980 Ti easily 

 

 

Hello !

I am on the way to upgrade my CPU i5 2300 to i5 2500k, but I'm wondering if it's worth it. Will I get more fps in games such as witcher 3 or gta 5 ?

My PC spec is :

- i5 2300

- MSI GTX 660 2 gb

- be quiet 650 W

- 8 gb ram

 

what is your motherboard? 

[LokiFire]

uhm... wat

 

it wont bottleneck that 660 at all, in fact if he gets a solid 4.8 overclock he can run a 980 Ti easily 

 

 

 

what is your motherboard? 

Errr learn to read, the 660 is the bottleneck not his CPU.

[Fictionvl]

Errr learn to read, the 660 is the bottleneck not his CPU.

 

older GPUs on good CPU's don't usually bottleneck, I my self running an HD 7870 with a 6700k totally fine, and I run GTA V at high-mid settings 

[LokiFire]

older GPUs on good CPU's don't usually bottleneck, I my self running an HD 7870 with a 6700k totally fine, and I run GTA V at high-mid settings 

I don't think you understand, if he bought a GTX 970 he would get more performance because he no longer has a GTX 660 which is holding his performance back

 

The GTX 660 is the bottleneck.

[Fetzie]

older GPUs on good CPU's don't usually bottleneck, I my self running an HD 7870 with a 6700k totally fine, and I run GTA V at high-mid settings 

 

I think what LokiFire meant, was that upgrading the GTX 660 would yield more FPS than the minor clock speed upgrade to a 2500K.

[Fictionvl]

I don't think you understand, if he bought a GTX 970 he would get more performance because he no longer has a GTX 660 which is holding his performance back

 

The GTX 660 is the bottleneck.

 

I get what you mean, but the term bottleneck is not right to use in this sense.

 

he's just lacking performance, thats all.

[Fetzie]

I get what you mean, but the term bottleneck is not right to use in this sense.

 

he's just lacking performance, thats all.

 

The GTX 660 is bottlenecking the OP's performance. That is a perfectly valid way to use the term "bottleneck".

[Maxxtraxx]

I get what you mean, but the term bottleneck is not right to use in this sense.

 

he's just lacking performance, thats all.

 

The GTX 660, while a nice graphics card... Is the limiting factor in his gaming performance. Upgrading the 660 to a better card will improve gaming performance while the CPU upgrade will do very little due to the 660 being the limiting factor.

[Megahurt]

I get what you mean, but the term bottleneck is not right to use in this sense.

 

he's just lacking performance, thats all.

A bottleneck is a part of a pc that limits the performance to the point where upgrading other components wouldn't give a benefit.

[SebFive]

My motherboard is a ASUS P8H61 -M LE

[SebFive]

So I should upgrade my GPU instead of my CPU ?

[salah2000]

So I should upgrade my GPU instead of my CPU ?

YES. Try finding second hand if u dont have a big budget

[Guest]

People talking about bottlenecks like they are satanic. Almost every system has a bottleneck, Nearly ALL systems. The definition you're giving a bottleneck states that if you were to upgrade one component, performance yield would be higher. 

 

The lack of a bottleneck is complete system equilibrium. This does not commonly exist. Every game, depending if more CPU or GPU bound, would throw this bottleneck equation completely out of equilibrium. 

 

For instance, I might say something like a Intel X and Nvidia Y are the perfect fit, currently with these drivers, within this operating system, playing this specific game - but outside of that, one of the components in your system are going to be a "bottleneck". 

[SebFive]

So if I put a gtx 980 for example it will be ok ? I wonder if my CPU is not too weak to work fine with this gtx 980

[SteveGrabowski0]

So if I put a gtx 980 for example it will be ok ? I wonder if my CPU is not too weak to work fine with this gtx 980

 

I probably wouldn't go higher than GTX 970 with an i5-2300. I doubt you'd see much difference in performance between a 970 and a 980 in games like GTA V or Fallout 4 that are cpu heavy. But I would absolutely take the 970 over something like a 960 or 380, as an i5-2300 is still powerful enough to use a 970 at pretty close to its potential I think. I would stay away from AMD cards since their DirectX 11 driver overhead could make their gpus a problem with an older i5. So definitely 970 over 390.

 

We're finally getting to the point where it's reasonable to upgrade from Sandy Bridge, but they're still pretty solid gaming CPUs. 

[SebFive]

Ok thanks !