I have some money and am due rewarding myself. Games are tolerable right now but I'd like some more fps and/or increasing the quality settings.
Currently have i5 2500K @4.2ghz and a 6950 @ some factory oc. I've not been paying much attention to HW since I bought that.
Had a look at the GPU bench and looked like there was a lot of performance to be had (maybe 290 or 7800). But had a look into the video forum here and the impression I got was a big step up is coming, which isn't reflected in the pricing. Naturally, "coming" seems to be in enough months to be an annoying wait and not enough that I won't be annoyed about it if I buy now (I saw Q4 2014 which I assume is more likely to be nearer the end of the year).
So I had a look at CPUs, but there just didn't seem to be any significant performance gains, even at stock and I presume nothing is going to OC as well at the 2500K.
Any thoughts? I don't like to buy s/h
Currently have i5 2500K @4.2ghz and a 6950 @ some factory oc. I've not been paying much attention to HW since I bought that.
Had a look at the GPU bench and looked like there was a lot of performance to be had (maybe 290 or 7800). But had a look into the video forum here and the impression I got was a big step up is coming, which isn't reflected in the pricing. Naturally, "coming" seems to be in enough months to be an annoying wait and not enough that I won't be annoyed about it if I buy now (I saw Q4 2014 which I assume is more likely to be nearer the end of the year).
So I had a look at CPUs, but there just didn't seem to be any significant performance gains, even at stock and I presume nothing is going to OC as well at the 2500K.
Any thoughts? I don't like to buy s/h