I would look at upgrading anything else before the 2600K, Still an awesome chip.
Thanks again for the reply Dice!
The thing I'm sort of having an "concern" about is the fact that it's an 2nd generation CPU, a bit "old" or "outdated" now and the thought of it running hotter and draws more power/less power efficient than the newer 3rd and 4th Gen CPUs... I might be exaggerating this as well now though :mellow:...
You're welcome
You're best off waiting as honestly the 2600K is a very capable chip and if you do mainly gaming I wouldn't bother until Skylake comes out or maybe not even then, We shall have to wait and see![]()
Honestly, there's not much point in the 2600k > 3770k upgrade as there is barely a performance difference. The only benefit you'll have is the Z77 chipset with things like PCI-E Gen 3.0 and such.
Cool cool... yeah at the moment I game a bit, but mostly like daily stuff, ie browsing the net, watching movies etc etc. Even doing some photoshopping from time to time.
I think that the 2600K is more than capable really when it comes to rendering videos as well... I mean, it's quite a beast in my opinion still...
And Skylake, what is that?...
Also, I got this in an old PM from Feronix that I just found and do you agree?...
Skylake is the next chip to come out from Intel, Well Broadwell first and then sometime later Skylake, Intels schedule is a bit up in the air at the moment, For the public anyway.
Totally agree with Feronix, The performance difference between PCI-E 2.0 and PCI-E 3.0 both at X16 on a single GPU is miniscule at best, I'm talking in the region of less than 1 frame and some games upwards of 5+ frames.
A good article and comparison here - Benchmarks
So you wouldn't recommend/tell me to get the 3770K as it's not worth it over the 2600K, even if it's just the utilize the Gen 3.0 aspect?...
Other than the question above, I think I've gotten my answer on this thread, thanks dude!
And one last question though... when you talk about the 5+ frames in some games, do you mean that the difference between the 2600K and 3770K is in the region of +1 or 5+ frames in certain games?... nothing more than that?...
I'd only recommend getting the 3770K if you can get it for cheap/pre-owned and going by videos on YouTube the difference between a rig with a 2600K and 3770K will be somewhere in the region of 1 - 5+ fps depending on the resolution etc...as is pointed out in that linked article
As you can see4 here BF3 gets no bonuses for Gen 3.0
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Same story with Batman Arkham City -
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But there are games out there like Skyrim that will take advantage of the extra bandwidth but the fps difference is tiny -
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But looking at those specs of BF3, do you think it's a similar case for BF4, Crysis 3 and Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare?...
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How much would you say I'd try to get an 3770K for then?, what would you personally go for?...
It will be the exact same story, This graph shows 2 Titans in SLI so you should be able to guesstimate the performance from that seeing as a 970 is slightly faster than a Titan as can be seen Here -
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Have a look locally where you live or in the classifieds would be my suggestion, Personally I wouldn't pay more than £150 pre-owned.
Really? :huh:... then how come a Titan is like £1000 more expensive than a 970?...
So from that graph... Crysis 3 is a waaay more demanding game than BF3, if my brain still works (haven't slept yet)...
Okay, so £150 is a "good" price for an 3770K then, cool... so will have look out for it.
But for a new one then?, if it would come on sale... how low would it have to go down in price for you to personally hit the button?...
A Titan Black which is slightly faster than a normal Titan costs roughly £700 in the UK and a 970 costs roughly £300, Hardly £1000 more ^_^
It's more expensive as it has faster double precision and 3GB's of extra VRAM, The precision isn't used by any game, Only compute tasks but the extra memory is useful for high resolutions.
Personally if the 3770K was brand new never used I'd pay around the £200 mark considering it's 2 generations old now.