Is it worth it to upgrade CPU

[xxmorpheus]

I have a core i7 2700k, and i have yet to see any game that would make it wheeze. At this point, is it worth an upgrade? I run it all day and night at 5.0ghz and temps never go over 68-70c. Thoughts?

 

[ninjabubbles3]

I have a core i7 2700k, and i have yet to see any game that would make it wheeze. At this point, is it worth an upgrade? I run it all day and night at 5.0ghz and temps never go over 68-70c. Thoughts?

That's still a very capable CPU, I wouldn't upgrade it until the next socket comes out, or maybe to broad well if you really want to.

Then again, if its running fine, why would you want to upgrade

 

[spirit]

Still a great CPU and it's barely slower than the CPUs that came out after it. Keep it until you need to upgrade.

 

[beers]

Going to Ivy when you already have yours at 5 GHz isn't really worth the difference in cost.

 

[xxmorpheus]

thanks guys. Yeah its been amazing how well this cherry picked 2600k has performed. I will wait until 2015 to purchase a new one

 

[Okedokey]

Its fine now that you're not trying to choke it with 4 x 680s

 

[Jiniix]

I have a 2600K that I run at a chill 4.4GHz, even I see no reason to upgrade.
The only reason would be a platform upgrade if you have some M.2 SSDs lying around or something

 

[TruckingCody]

I still run an i7 950. (the original i7 serries). The only thing that will max it out is rendering video in 4k format. (video editing) The cpu barely breaks a sweat on gaming. Even cpu intense games its fine. The comp can handle burning blueray, 2 games, hd netflix, and an HD video render in avid and still not max out the 4th core.

In todays games, GPU's and hard drive speeds generally limit a system before CPU does. I it runs all your games on max without maxing out, there s no reason to upgrade.