Does an i5 2500k still cut it these days?

[S1ght]

So I just got my GTX 1070 and now I'm wondering if my lil' CPU still has what it takes to keep up with it?

I mean I have an aftermarket cooler on it so I can quite easily put it up to 4ghz.

Any ideas oh wise people of myg?

Thought I'd add a screenshot of why I think this as well. So this is my CPU overclocked to 4ghz and me just running around the training area in Overwatch. In game I'm sitting at between 70-80fps and my CPU is clearly being taxed quite heavily from such a small map.


The sudden drops are me minimising

Edit:
Got a friend to check his CPU usage under the same condition but he has an i7 4790 and he sits between 22-27%. This now makes me sad

[DarthRiven]

I was gonna say it should be fine, but the i5 2500K was never a powerhouse to begin with. If your RAM is less than 8GB, maybe look at upgrading that first, but otherwise a new CPU might be on your horizon.

[blaaislaai]

2500k was very popular back in the day because of it's overclocking potential.

I would guess upgrade to at least a 4th gen sometime soon

[DarthRiven]

2500k was very popular back in the day because of it's overclocking potential.

I would guess upgrade to at least a 4th gen sometime soon

Yeah I wasn't knocking the processor at all; but my advice is generally that if you bought a high-end CPU (even if it's old) it can be the last component you replace, as you generally run out of VRAM or RAM before you do processing power. That generation's i5 was a great mid-range processor.

[Blazzok]

~snip~

I also have a 2500K, and I easily pushed it to 4.5GHz with an aftermarket air cooler without doing any voltage tweaks. So you can perhaps look at pushing it to 4.5 as well, depends on your cooler.

I don't have Overwatch, so I can't have a look to compare. If your friend's i7 sits so low, it probably means that Overwatch utilizes multiple cores quite well.

What are your Overwatch settings like? I see the high CPU usage seems to be kind of common if you google the issue. One suggestion was to push all your graphics settings to max/ultra, so perhaps try that.

Also, try other games to see what happens. Don't immediately assume it is the CPU bottlenecking your GPU. Overwatch might just be CPU intensive, or the game might just not be optimized that well yet since it is fairly new.

Here is a list of things you can try, nr. 12 is the one I suggested above.

http://eu.battle.net/forums/en/overw...1861242#post-5

[RyanBrothwell]

If you are in the market for a new CPU, I'm just going to leave this right here.

[S1ght]

I was gonna say it should be fine, but the i5 2500K was never a powerhouse to begin with. If your RAM is less than 8GB, maybe look at upgrading that first, but otherwise a new CPU might be on your horizon.

Looking at the graphs there though I still have plenty of memory free and that's while Overwatch is running

I also have a 2500K, and I easily pushed it to 4.5GHz with an aftermarket air cooler without doing any voltage tweaks. So you can perhaps look at pushing it to 4.5 as well, depends on your cooler.

That screenshot was with me running it at 4.2ghz with a Coolermaster Hyper 212 cooler. Was also already running the game on the Highest settings Thanks for the link. Will take a look.

I guess my worry mainly comes from reading benchmarking reviews where the average framerate for most the gcards in that range are sitting with a min of 100fps and yet I'm sitting with an average of between 60-70...I'm also aware of the the amount of 1st world problems this sentence sounds like so apologies for that >.<