How much is the i7-2600K holding me back?

silent-circuit said:
If infractions were given out for swearing in threads... I would have been banned years ago.
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Agreed, the mods here generally let us have it out until for a good while before they chime in with a general warning first then infractions if those warnings are ignored.
 
Looking back, we all knew the 2500k and 2600k were good processors, they could be arguably one of the best processors to dollars intel ever released. Competitive longevity. Seems like that was really the last amazing processor generation. man, p4 to core duo to i5 750/i7 920 to 2500k/2600k was significant upgrade each gen.
 
athenian200 said:
2600k? That's a Sandy Bridge CPU, most likely running on a P67 or Z67 chipset.

Well, I'd say the CPU is fine, but the P67/Z67 chipset is showing its age. I think you'll be fine with a single card, but if you want to run SLI, I'd upgrade for PCI-E 3.0. Running a card at PCI-E 2.0 x16 is like running one at PCI-E 3.0 x8... which is roughly the performance hit people take from SLI, barely enough to hurt the card's performance. But SLI would be a bad idea because then you're cutting that in half again.

Here's my little reference/cheat sheet...

Yorkfield/Core 2 Extreme -- You're really pushing it. Upgrade soon.
Gulftown/Core i? 9xx (1st gen) -- You're kind of pushing it. Upgrade when you have about $800.
Sandy Bridge/Core i? 2xxx (2nd gen) -- The CPU is fine, but the P67/Z68 chipset is showing its age.
Ivy Bridge/Core i? 3xxx (3rd gen) -- You're probably okay, although that could change any year now.
Haswell/Core i? 4xxx (4th gen) -- You're definitely okay, this processor is being used by OEMs in new computers.
Broadwell/Core i? 5xxx (5th gen) -- You're ahead of the curve, this is a fairly new architecture.
Skylake/Core i? 6xxx (6th gen) -- This is the newest architecture, and it will be until later this year.
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You know, this is a handy and very useful chart. Thank you.

I have been so very very poor over the past years, and only have a cheap Dell laptop to my name at the moment. It has been a very long time since I have had a computer with even a percentage of the necessary horsepower to play any good PC games and I have missed out on a lot.That is about to change however, even though I am still poor as shit, my dad has stopped using his desktop and is sending it to me.

It is an off the shelf Asus, but... it is rocking an I7 4770 with 16gigs of ram (it has a video card in it, a GT620, but... yeah, that's gotta go) so once I get it I am just going to drop a new power supply and a GTX 1080 into it and fire that monkey up. It is good to know that I will be ok 1080p gaming wise for some time because I have a SHIT LOAD of catching up to do.
 
STrooperTK421 said:
It is an off the shelf Asus, but... it is rocking an I7 4770 with 16gigs of ram (it has a video card in it, a GT620, but... yeah, that's gotta go) so once I get it I am just going to drop a new power supply and a GTX 1080 into it and fire that monkey up. It is good to know that I will be ok 1080p gaming wise for some time because I have a SHIT LOAD of catching up to do.
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You hit the jackpot with that. A lot of OEMs are still selling those Haswell processors as brand new. And 16GB of RAM is about the standard these days. The GT620 is probably not much better than Intel HD graphics... possibly even worse. So you're right... all it really needs is a video card and a way to power it.
 
Cant speak for the i7-2600k, but coming from a i5-2500k @4.2 -> i7-6700k @4.6 w/ gtx 970, the improvement was very pleasant and worthy. Big increase in minimum fps and overall stability across the board. Being an owner of a 144hz monitor makes the minimum fps increase extra worth it for me. Even pretty old games like Team Fortress 2 I would get minimum fps all the way down to 70-80, while now its more like 110-120 minimum.

In OP's situation being on a gtx 570 still, the gpu upgrade to 970/1070 is the clear priority and bigger upgrade for now.
 
I've went from a i7-2600k overclocked to 4.6 ghz to a 3770k @ 4.4 ghz and now a 4770k at @ 4.2 ghz because of heat with same H100i cooler. Honestly the 2600k is a beastly processor that can OC very well and keep up with the 3770k no doubt. 4770k kind of pulls away but its no sacrifice to gaming performance its still a solid CPU. Wouldn't hold back a 1070/970.
 
I also jumped from the 2600K to the 3770K and did not notice a performance difference, but did noticed that its faaaaaaaaaaaaaaaar more power friendly, and that is a bit smooth when handling lots of multithreaded applications. I wish I could use its IGP for Quicksync but my stupid motherboard does not have video output. Luckily my Haswell powered laptop has it and I can enjoy fast encoding times.
 
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