2500K or 955?

wolfeking

wolfeking

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Needing to rebuild my CPU (the CPU and Mobo are shot). I would like to know what will run better in games overclocked to 4.0GHz or greater, a i5-2500K or a 955 BE? I know that the 955 is cheaper, but does it perform the same?
 
the 2500k walks all over the 955. In games, both will be enough, but you will see better performance with the 2500k
 
Plus you have the chance to upgrade to a better processor in the future (i7) and AMD is soon moving over to AM3+. (Q2 2011, I believe)

2500K is the better choice.
 
The only recommendation I'll give it that you make sure it's a P67 board. The P67s can overclock, the H67s can't (or at least nothing worth mentioning).
 
You want a video card if you are doing games. The graphic processing unit in the processor is not that good. It will really bottleneck your system with games. I wouldn't buy until you can afford a decent video card in my opinion.
 
2048Megabytes said:
You want a video card if you are doing games. The graphic processing unit in the processor is not that good. It will really bottleneck your system with games. I wouldn't buy until you can afford a decent video card in my opinion.
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I don't know about that, it sits around 5450 performance, which is by no means a gaming card, but can handle games on low settings no problem. If you think you can live with your games looking not all that good until you can get a card, then I would say go for it now, else wait, and the prices may have gone down the chip too, it just depends if you need the system right now
 
Aastii said:
I don't know about that, it sits around 5450 performance, which is by no means a gaming card, but can handle games on low settings no problem. If you think you can live with your games looking not all that good until you can get a card, then I would say go for it now, else wait, and the prices may have gone down the chip too, it just depends if you need the system right now
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Atleast if he gets the CPU+MOBO his PC wont be a vegetable till then and he can also play games like CS or whatever is his favourite low requirement game.Then he can get a card whenever he likes and also he might be able to get a better one if he can wait a bit more.
 
The games that will need a Card will not be bought till after the card anyway (the newer COD and MOH). I currently run games like the Hard Truck series and Older FPS like MOH: EA and back (cause of teh amazing campaign mode).

Also, for the price range, What about the 1090T? how would it compair to the 2500K?
 
wolfeking said:
The games that will need a Card will not be bought till after the card anyway (the newer COD and MOH). I currently run games like the Hard Truck series and Older FPS like MOH: EA and back (cause of teh amazing campaign mode).

Also, for the price range, What about the 1090T? how would it compair to the 2500K?
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I would still go with the 2500k.But if you can wait then I would wait for the Bulldozer to release and then see the specs and then compare with sandy bridge.
Compared to the 1090t.It is better
http://www.overclockersclub.com/reviews/intel_corei7_2600k_and_corei5_2500k/13.htm

And AFA GPU performance is concerned check this out.

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And if i were to wait for bulldozer, then there would be waiting for its replacement. Its Either a 2500K, a 1090T, or a 955. I will not be waiting for bulldozer. Really, this whole IPU deal with the 2500K sounds really complicated (not to mention expensive beyond belief, when you can get a 6 core BE for $199).
 
wolfeking said:
And if i were to wait for bulldozer, then there would be waiting for its replacement. Its Either a 2500K, a 1090T, or a 955. I will not be waiting for bulldozer. Really, this whole IPU deal with the 2500K sounds really complicated (not to mention expensive beyond belief, when you can get a 6 core BE for $199).
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The 2500k is expensive I agree but if you are buying your PC just for playing games and want to save money then a 955 will also do the job.But I dont think for a long time but a 2500k will be future proof.And a 1090t would be helpful in applications making use of all 6 cores.We all suggested the best performing processor out of those 3.And 2500k is the best performing processor.
 
I was asking what is the better gaming processor. The 2500K is nicem but due to be overtaken by the 2011 processors later this year. then that will be overtaken by something else shortly. Its by no means a future proof processor.
At least if I get teh 1090T or 955, it will be backward compatible with the new AM3+ boards till bulldozer is cheap enough to be viable. I just dont see putting out 219 for a quad core when you can have a 6 core backward compatible processor for 199. It makes no sense to me. Plus, how is the 2500K going to really help that much with gaming?
 
Correct me if I'm wrong, but the P series chipsets don't support integrated CPU graphics, do they? So in that case, a discrete GPU will be needed from the start.
 
I am not sure about the backward compatibility of the bulldozer series.
As far as the 2500k is concerned the performance is pretty good so like even I own an i7 920 right now and even now I dont have trouble playing any new games at all.And still the CPU usage is below 30% the same way the 2500k will be futureproof and if anything you can always upgrade to 2600k.
And the 2011 socket also I am not sure of.

But if you are damn sure about the bulldozer series backward compatibilty then go for the hexcore.
 
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