Unhappy with i5-2500k

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so i have an i5-2500k and am quite unhappy with its performance in battlefield 1 now i know other people are having problems .. my question is .. as i dont want to get a whole new system is.

i can get an i7-2600k and just drop it in my system and overclock it and have no problems...with it overclocked and with the extra threads and cache etc etc i should in theory get much better performance in things that use them .... and i have read that BF1 like the extra compute power of an i7.

good shout or nay?
 
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dropping in a 2600k is by far the cheapest route for more cpu performance. but i highly doubt that will solve your problem. you can see my setup in the sig below and i personally have no issues with bf1@1440p. but i have been seeing many threads across the internet though with a whole range of setups including 6700k+1080 complaining of fps issues. all the evidence points to drivers and/or game patches. ea is definitely aware of the performance issues. that said i would wait as the 2500k overclocked is still a very capable processor.

for now you should clean up your system. most importantly use ddu to rule out any driver conflicts.
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my thinking is that it will make my PC a lil more future proof at the same time .. i know these are really old chips were talking about but at around 4.4ghz there still relevant im sure haha
 
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i use msi afterburner to check usage and temps and fps etc etc .. all 4 cores on my i5 are 100% constant and i believe its a known issue with the game that EA are working on a patch for ... my i5 is at 4.4ghz also ... my R9 290 4GB sometimes only hits around 8%usage then 100% then 12% its so sporadic .. so i dont think its the gpu .. hmmmm
 
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If you're using MSI Afterburner to monitor your GPU: go to Settings --> General, and enable unified GPU usage monitoring. It's a known thing with AMD GPUs.

 
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yeah ive seen on youtube people playing at Ultra with my GPU and my GPU is overclocked also .. i know both parts are old but the GPU is still quite powerful in terms of 1080p ... i think an i7 would boost performance a lil especially clocked at the same frequencies .. decision decisions
 
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I've got an old computer with i5 2500k @ 4.4ghz aswell, and a GTX 770 2gb paired with 16gb of ram. And I had no problem what so ever with BF1, I should tell you that I was playing the BF1 beta tho. I used high and ultra and (minor tweaks) in graphic settings @ 1080p never had an issue. FPS around 60 to 85, AVG i dont remember. Something around 65-70fps. And sometimes over 100fps.

And for your question, something better is always better.
 
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yeah i played the beta on my laptop which has a dual core i5 and a 4GB 860m ... and it ran the beta on medium just fine i put in like 20 hours on the beta ... then i go on my pc and it max's out cpu usage on medium when the pc should run on ultra ... its annoying 🙁
 
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see i was thinking that and getting an i7 6700k or something like that ... but prices in Australia are the worst [maybe not as bad as canada] but you get my drift haha .. which we had a microcentre here that place is amazing
 
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dropping in a 2600k is by far the cheapest route for more cpu performance. but i highly doubt that will solve your problem. you can see my setup in the sig below and i personally have no issues with bf1@1440p. but i have been seeing many threads across the internet though with a whole range of setups including 6700k+1080 complaining of fps issues. all the evidence points to drivers and/or game patches. ea is definitely aware of the performance issues. that said i would wait as the 2500k overclocked is still a very capable processor.

for now you should clean up your system. most importantly use ddu to rule out any driver conflicts.
 
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Thats where I buy my cpu/mobo combo. I hvae two micro centers within an hour drive of me.
 
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Just rub it in some more please delta D: ... one of the youtubers i watch (sciencestudios) goes to them regularly it would seem haha .. they are incredible stores man
 
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the i5-2500k is a very friendly OC chip. I just set my voltage to auto and then set multiplier to 45. voltage in prime95 is about 1.3, in games a little lower, sometimes voltage spikes to 1.35. don't really care, it doesn't seem to hurt anything.
it's also a very good chip that is still very viable today. I have a gtx 1070 (evga sc) and I basically play ultra in everything, all maxed out, with anywhere between 75fps (witcher 3) to 90 fps (bf1) to 144 (doom). yeah, I think i'm ok with not upgrading for a while.
 
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well congrats!
I think your system would've survived a year or two more just fine, but upgrading isn't too early at all.
I was very happy with my i5-2500k and all the games I played on a 1070, even more so on a 1080 (CPU bottleneck? bah. 120fps on ultra in rainbox six siege is still 120fps. who cares if i could get 144 if i had a kaby lake?).

that said, I'm now on an i7-3770 (non k). I traded it for the i5. using the +4 bins turbo overclock I'm at 41x when using all 4 cores; BLCK upped to 102.60 so effective clock while using all 4 cores is a few mhz over 4.2ghz. (41 * 102.60 = 4206~)

returned my 1080 due to coil whine and am now looking to get a 1080 ti. will see how the 4 extra threads help.
 
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