So i'm wondering for my next upgrade what to go for, if anything.
Currently I have an intel i5 2500(non-K) cpu that i have running on a 104 bus speed, turbo up to ~3.98ghz under full load 100% stable. 16gb ram @ 1600mhz. This setup is several years old already as I bought it when sandy bridge was the cool new thing to have. Foolishly I decided to save a few bucks and get the non-K version of the processor thinking i'd never want to bother with overclocking, but thats all water under the bridge.
would it be worth it for me to go to ebay and pick up a 2500k as an upgrade and overclock it to ~4.4ghz? I have a noctura cooler that should be more than up to the challenge. Or would it be more worthwhile to just save up and get a skylake cpu/board/memory upgrade down the road a bit after prices come down to something a bit more reasonable?
Would there be a very noticable performance gain in games at all going either route? (video card is a gtx970) Would PCIe 3.0 benefit me much over the 2.0 i have now?
Currently I have an intel i5 2500(non-K) cpu that i have running on a 104 bus speed, turbo up to ~3.98ghz under full load 100% stable. 16gb ram @ 1600mhz. This setup is several years old already as I bought it when sandy bridge was the cool new thing to have. Foolishly I decided to save a few bucks and get the non-K version of the processor thinking i'd never want to bother with overclocking, but thats all water under the bridge.
would it be worth it for me to go to ebay and pick up a 2500k as an upgrade and overclock it to ~4.4ghz? I have a noctura cooler that should be more than up to the challenge. Or would it be more worthwhile to just save up and get a skylake cpu/board/memory upgrade down the road a bit after prices come down to something a bit more reasonable?
Would there be a very noticable performance gain in games at all going either route? (video card is a gtx970) Would PCIe 3.0 benefit me much over the 2.0 i have now?