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August 9, 2013 9:54:14 AM

I am wondering if I keep my i5 2500K, how long will new GPU's be able to run well with this processor? I overclock my CPU to 4.2 GHz with no apparent overheating issues. I have 8gb ram, and would me getting a radeon 7900 series GPU benefit me? Now I have 2 radeon 6850's running crossfire, one can OC to 1200 GHz and the other 850 GHz so I keep them at stock 750 GHz. Any help would be great. Also, what features are best in looking for a GPU (core clock, mem clock, stream processors, etc)?

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August 9, 2013 10:13:06 AM

You would benefit quite a bit I would think. Your CPU is a few generations old now, but it still performs a lot better than my i3-3225. I run a 7850 and it performs really well. If my CPU can take advantage of that, your CPU can take advantage of a 7970. I wouldn't worry about it.

I would say that since the PCI-E interface is doing really well cards will still be produced for them, and I can't think of any for see able future in which your CPU isn't enough to get a huge amount of performance out of the card. You might while running dual crossfire on 7970's or Titan's or other cards on the highest end of the spectrum start to experience a very minor amount of bottleneck by the CPU, but that will be right around the 60 fps mark if it happens at all and will not be noticeable.

So as long as you aren't running dual cards of the highest caliber, I don't see you having issues until 2015 really.
August 9, 2013 10:25:50 AM

Yea that sounds good, I am going to be trying crysis 3 on my setup soon, so that should be interesting.
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August 9, 2013 12:12:28 PM

You should be able to play Crysis 3 without any issues, but make sure you do go for a 7970 Ghz Edition. Maximize your upgrade.
August 9, 2013 10:26:11 PM

Your processor will run upto 3-way sli with a very good motherboard, the i-5 is on of the best out there.
August 10, 2013 10:59:43 AM

I have benched Crysis 3 at 45fps average specs I5 2500k stock GTX 4800 1650 x 1050 and i dont intend to upgrade GPU for a few months yet and when i do a GTX 680.
August 10, 2013 1:58:00 PM

a 2500k is plenty of cpu horsepower for gaming and will do fine with any gpu setup around, you could do two titans and you wont see any difference gaming even if you had a i7-3970x. clock for clock the 2500k still a beast of a cpu(possibly the best budget overclocking cpu ever made) and you should be able to get at least 4.4ghz even with modest cooling. the only reason for upgrading from a 2500k would be get hyper threading for other types of programs like rendering and encoding, not for gaming. only a game like uber ultra modded skyrim would see an fps bump from going from a oc'd 2500k to an oc'd 3970x.
August 11, 2013 6:53:46 AM

UPDATE: I tried Crysis 3 on my cpu, and it froze like 20 min into the campaign, I think that game is extremely demanding on the system, my fans were going 100% every gunfight basically.
August 11, 2013 7:31:23 AM

IInuyasha74 said:
You would benefit quite a bit I would think. Your CPU is a few generations old now, but it still performs a lot better than my i3-3225. I run a 7850 and it performs really well. If my CPU can take advantage of that, your CPU can take advantage of a 7970. I wouldn't worry about it.

I would say that since the PCI-E interface is doing really well cards will still be produced for them, and I can't think of any for see able future in which your CPU isn't enough to get a huge amount of performance out of the card. You might while running dual crossfire on 7970's or Titan's or other cards on the highest end of the spectrum start to experience a very minor amount of bottleneck by the CPU, but that will be right around the 60 fps mark if it happens at all and will not be noticeable.

So as long as you aren't running dual cards of the highest caliber, I don't see you having issues until 2015 really.



i5 2500k + 7850 1gb/2gb how will they perform on crysis 3 on 1080p ultra ???

August 11, 2013 6:15:34 PM

I haven't played Crysis 3, but the 7850 will be your limiting factor not your CPU. I'm sure you can probably play it with some really good settings, but from what I have heard Crysis 3 is really graphically intense, and I can't quite play Tomb Raider with all the settings on ultra. So you probably need to drop settings a little, but it should still do really well on high settings.
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