Is it worth upgrading my Intel i7 2600K?

[Tevron]

Been rocking this build for 5-6 years but im starting to feel some major hang time when I load onto my desktop. Also the more I overclock it, the louder the pc gets and im thinking of energy saving. Im gonna be moving to my new house in jan/Feb so I dont wanna be dealing with this upgrade nd♥♥♥♥♥♥while im doing up my house. So I wanna get it out the way before then. Im gonna go 2k ultrawide with a new gpu soon so im alright with that.

CPU used to be a beast back then. Still is to be fair. It just takes the piess to load windows 10 and I have to overclock it to play the latest games smoothly to avoid bottleneck, which makes it louder even when using the best CPU cooler in that intel gen. Ryzen 1500X or 1600 a good idea or shall I keep my pc?

Intel i7 2600k - 3.4GHZ (4.6GHZ OC)
Asus Maximus V Gene Motherboard
GPU: AMD R9 380 (OC)
Hyper x Genesis 8GB 1333MHZ Ram
120GB Seagate Harddrive (Main operating system)
1TB Seagate Hard drive
500GB Samsung Hard drive
OCz 750W PSU
Noctua D-14 Cooler

Im a technician with a technical problem. Could you help a brother out?

[[☥] - CJ -]

im in the same boat with an i5 2500k

ive been considering upgrading to an i7 3770k because my board supports it and it should give me a decent boost.
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But yeah
the main things i think you need to do is upgrade that RAM, a system like that shouldnt be running less than 1600 imo.

And if you are using a 120GB HDD as a boot drive, then thats an issue in itself. 120GB HDD means its slow as all hell, which isnt good.

If its actually a 120GB SSD, then thats a little better but 120GB is really too small, 250GB should be the minimum for an SSD.

As for the cooler noise, get a better fan for it and you should be good to go.

[Tevron]

Thanks for the advice people. Ill look into upgrading my ram. Im hearing it goes up to 2400mhz on ddr3? So ill get 16gb of that. Would a 60gb ssd be okay for windows 10 to be installed only on there or shall i go higher? Im hearing the higher the resolution, the lower the cpu will work if i went 2k. Ill decrease my clock speeds when i finish work and see if it goes quiet.

[🦜Cloud Boy🦜]

No point of changing the CPU, your i7 is still good for all games, it performas same as Ryzen 1600, if not better. It won't cause any bottleneck unless you have the most top end GPU. See some benchmarks in youtube.......
All you need to upgrade 3 things......

Buy GTX 1060 or 1070--- $250 or $400 ( depends on what you can afford )
Buy an SSD 256GB- $90, and Add another 8GB of DDR 3 RAM- $70.

[Tevron]

Ive found out my cpu temp is on constant 60c when its idle. The cpu fan speed runs 1300rpm all the time. Ive tried lowering the rpm on the bios, took the cooler fans out to see if its the pins. Put my overclock to 3.4ghz stock and power saving mode. Any solution to this bull? No wonder its loud in my case.

[[☥] - CJ -]

if its a constant 60C when idle then its possible you dont have Speedstep enabled in the BIOS

Speedstep allows the CPU to downclock when the extra power isnt needed and raises accordingly.

[Big Boom Boom]

☥ - CJ - původně napsal:

if its a constant 60C when idle then its possible you dont have Speedstep enabled in the BIOS

Speedstep allows the CPU to downclock when the extra power isnt needed and raises accordingly.

It's more likely thermal paste dried out. Even with speedstep disabled and overclocked you shouldn't see 30C delta at idle. Unless OP room temp is 50ish C which I assume is inhabitable.

[Nats.don]

I believe you should upgrade to a GTX 1060

[Karma.]

Nathan Don původně napsal:

I believe you should upgrade to a GTX 1060

I think he should upgrade to get better performance.

[sHUC]

Emi Como původně napsal:

Nathan Don původně napsal:

I believe you should upgrade to a GTX 1060

I think he should upgrade to get better performance.

I agree with you , he should upgrade to a better graphic card, it will come more handy.

[SpaceMachine153]

You can do a clean restart to factory new for your OS that may help the lag time, off coarse you will have to reinstall everything

[tacoshy]

SpaceMachine153 původně napsal:

You can do a clean restart to factory new for your OS that may help the lag time, off coarse you will have to reinstall everything

his drives are just slow....he not using a SSD but an old slow HDD. fresh installing windows wont change that. Also PC getting slower over time and 5-6 years is a lot also nothing a fresh install of OS would help with.

[[☥] - CJ -]

Big Boom Boom původně napsal:

☥ - CJ - původně napsal:

if its a constant 60C when idle then its possible you dont have Speedstep enabled in the BIOS

Speedstep allows the CPU to downclock when the extra power isnt needed and raises accordingly.

It's more likely thermal paste dried out. Even with speedstep disabled and overclocked you shouldn't see 30C delta at idle. Unless OP room temp is 50ish C which I assume is inhabitable.

While thats possible
With speedstep off the clocks would be maxed out, which would give off more heat like he'd be playing a game, depending on the rest of the cooling..

So checking speedstep would be the first thing to try
Afterwhich, renewing the paste would be the 2nd.

[hawkeye]

linus tech teps posted a video yesterday about 4k which includes retro-fitting old pc's with new gpus

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jUtH6Z8l8w4

[tomk1]

Tevron původně napsal:

Okay thanks, so shall I just upgrade the ram size and frequency and get some SSD instead or getting a ryzen? What about the noise in my pc? How do I reduce it? Ive installed a program called "speedfan" but it only values the case fans in my build.

Still afew years left with my 2600 non k, just got a 850W psu & rx580.
Those parts I can take to a future upgrade but a Ram upgrade of expensive DDR3 is future scrap. why its so expensive makes no sense.
i7 2600 rocks, I will take it to my grave.

[[☥] - CJ -]

ill probably upgrade to an i7 3770k at some point, who knows when.

but yeah, 2nd Gens are still pretty good.