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If you have an aftermarket heatsink, you can easily overclock it to about 4.5Ghz.
At default speed I found it bottenecked some CPU intensive games like Skyrim and Crysis 3 but at 4.5Ghz it's nothing.
The K chips were literally made for overclocking. It'd be a waste not to overclock it and would of been better to go with a 2500 otherwise.
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Yeah, right now I have it overclocked to 4.1 ghz. Haven't had the time yet to go further, but I will. But anyway, an OC'ed 2500K 4.5Ghz will not bottleneck a GTX880?
And if I should not upgrade my 2500K now, when should I?
Yea, it'll be fine.
When you need to.
But seriously. It's kinda hard to say when you'll need to upgrade as we don't know how games in the future will handle CPU horsepower.
But considering that these new consoles use low-power chips and they're on the x86 architecture should mean that something like a 2500K should have no problem running games for most if not all of this console generation. But again it's just speculation.
The soonest I'd look into upgrading would probably be something like Skylake-E (Cannonlake?) in 2016.
And for overclocking here's a handy little Averages table for what others have gotten on their chips.
The percentile reads as: "75 - 1.288" means this voltage is better than what 75% of others were able to get.
So try from the 90th percentile voltage and try to see if that's stable in Intel Burntest or Prime95 and if it's not then move on to the 75th and so on until you find a stable voltage.
Make sure your temps are alright as well. But if you're using a decent aftermarket cooler it shouldn't be a problem.
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Yeah, server wise the extra bits of speed and more importantly, improvements in power usage are very welcome. Game wise it is just very stale. I had a look at the Haswell-E platform and the upcoming 8 core but that just seems like a waste to me. Proper 4 core usage is still far too rare in many of the recent games and I doubt that 6 or 8 cores will be utilised anytime soon. Heck, it may be many years before 8 cores actually make a difference.
It isn't always about the cpu.....rather the chipset and it's features......z87 and z97 is so much better than z68 and z77.
No it should not, also if the rumors prove true that these will come with the arm cpu chip on the gpu then that makes it even less of an issue. If it works the way it is supposed to that is!!!
No, it's not: all the LGA 1156/5/0 series motherboards are CPU-limited. The only improvements from Z77 to Z87 are things like the number of native 6Gbps SATA and USB 3.0 ports; the only improvements from Z87 to Z97 are support of CPUs you can't get yet and SATA Express devices you can't get yet.
If I were buying new, I would definitely go with the Z97 chipset. It's the only one with longevity. But upgrade a Z77/Sandy Bridge, just to attach more fast disks I don't have -- not worth any cost at all.
For a serious motherboard improvement, you have to go to LGA 2011. Anything less is worth it only so you can say you have it.
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Really! My god their is this amazing price for the 7990 here. To bad i don't have the money yet and even if i did i just want to upgrade when i know the specs for TW3.
For me it is worth it. I do video and music stuff on the side. So "fat" discs are must. Also I just bought a m.2 sata drive. but I have to wait a few weeks for the 4970k to show up at micro center and then I will get the new z97 board so I can use that new m.2 sata drive but I see your point for most people it clearly not an issue.
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So the 7990 is faster than the 780 Ti and i found a price that's cheaper than the 780 Ti here. So why should i not buy the 7990 over the 780 Ti? Any suggestions.
Because dual GPU systems do have quite some potential issues you won't have with single GPU systems.
Yep. I gad a GTX 295 back in the day and after that experience I will never, ever buy another dual GPU card again. Or SLI/CFX in general.
Having a powerful single GPU card is just more simple and efficient and you don't constantly need to update and tinker with your drivers. It's just better.
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Everyone complaining about sli is making me sort of nervous. Is it really that much extra hassle? I dont want to get rid of my 780 ti just to bump up to an 880 that will probably only be a small performance increase. Adding another 780 ti would be much more performance when the game gets sli support(hopefully at launch)
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