I7 2600 good anymore?

[Abd121]

I have I7 2600 (non K) with a horrible GT 520 GPU, 8 GB ram and a basic Intel motherboard...

I want to replace my 5 years old PC with a new one and I was wondering whether the CPU is worth keeping or not since everyone seem to say how a skylake one would leave it in the dust


PS: which graphics card is the maximum the CPU can handle before becoming a bottleneck, and if I decided to wait for pascal ones will it be able to make use of them anyway?

Thanks.

 

[nooneisback]

In average, the i7 6700 is 25% faster than the i7 2600. But then comes the interesting part. The i7 2600 is overclockable, harder than the K version, but it is. Meanwhile, Intel decided to lock the clock completely on the non K models of Skylake, meaning that there is no way to overclock the i7 6700 since the whole system will crash if any attempt to change the clock is made.

It's up to you to evaluate if it's worth spending all that money on it, but personaly I'd keep it until I see some real bottleneck.

For the Pascals, it will, as long as you don't try making a multi GPU setup.

 

[JohnnyBoy05]

The 2600 is still a valuable CPU to game on. It would take a very high end gpu or a multi gpu configuration before you would see a benefit of a skylake CPU. The 2600 would game very well on a Gtx 970 or Amd R9 390. But before you upgrade the gpu make sure you have a good quality power supply.