Need CPU advice

[Krankfried]

6 years... my 2500K is nearly a grandpa... but an awesome one! Slightly OC since I got it and never had any problem.

 

But as my girl needs a stable PC and I was planing to upgrade mine, I think it is time for an all new long lasting gaming machine (woohooo)... Basically I already have a gtx970 with currently no need to upgrade caus I can play all my games for now and my girl doesn't need her PC for gaming in first place - but I am also planing to get a 1070 maybe later this year.

 

So if she will use mine, I want to have a new one that will last as long as possible. What do you guys think? Would you say 4c kaby is enough or go with 4c/8t kaby? Do you think 6c/ht will pay off considering "future" advanced tech like Vulkan and dx12 or is it a too lang way off?

 

OH and: As AMDs Ryzen sounds really nice, you think I should consider one of them or better wait till we know more about them?

 

Most of the time I am playing Videogames (MMO, FPS) and I want to play games like star citizen (IF it will come out before I die) in future with no "ffs my CPU is not strong enough for this sh*t"-moments. Some of my time I use to work with the Adobe Creative Cloud caus I am a graphic designer but I am not planing to cut/edit/render videos or something.

 

Sorry for my bad english, I hope you all know what I mean and please don't kill me for my superficial knowledge^^

 

Thanks in advice for any help

[The Sloth]

yes 6c is the future, wait for ryzen if that doesn't work for you go for a 2600k. Intel is really lazy so the 2600k is still a really good chip 

 

[Krankfried]

Hey nerdslayer1,

 

thanks for your advice! that comparison indeed looks interesting. But are you sure to go with the 2600K? I have to buy it 2nd hand and that could be expensive... and it's not even a 6c...