I'm planning on upgrading my current PC (see spec's below) and was wondering if it was worth it to get a i7 2600k or a i5 2500k. I'm probably only going to use this PC for playing BF3/Skyrim mostly and surfing the web. Would I also have to upgrade my PSU as well?
[u]Current Spec's[/u]
Antec 650W PSU
AMD Athlon X2 6000+
ASUS M2N-32 Deluxe
MSI GTS 250
4GB Generic ram (lol can't be arsed to open the case and look)
I was hoping to upgrade to this
Motherboard:[url]http://www.memoryexpress.com/Products/MX33407[/url]
RAM:[url]http://www.memoryexpress.com/Products/MX34050[/url]
2600k or 2500k? [url]http://www.memoryexpress.com/Products/MX31558[/url] or [url]http://www.memoryexpress.com/Products/MX31557[/url]
I would be keeping the GTS 250 for the time being until I had enough cash to upgrade to a 560Ti.
Any suggestions?
If a mod could change the title to i7 2600k to avoid confusion, my bad.
You might want to rephrase this while you have time, when you said 2600k I thought you were speaking in terms of cash. Then I found out that it would be roughly $2,600,000.
Most of us know what he's talking about when he says 2600k.
The 2600k is a bad choice unless you're using applications that heavily rely on threads (rendering, SQL databases, etc.)
Most games are still only running single and dual core configurations, and would take a performance hit from HT since the thread scheduler would probably throw both threads on the same core and have them fight over CPU time slices. Single core games would take a large hit since they'd effectively only be able to use half of the cores' resources.
The 2500k is a better choice for being much cheaper, and you can still overclock it.
My workstation has an i7 2600k... key word, workstation.
The i5 2500k is the one you want. You would notice a huge performance increase with the i7 from your current CPU, but with an i5, you save yourself a pretty penny for something geared towards gamers.
This is truth, spare your cash, the i5 is an ungodly powerful CPU anyway.
Thanks guys. So my 650W PSU should be able to handle it all as well?
With ease.
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