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?

[Big Boom Boom]

Publicado originalmente por ☥ - CJ -:

Publicado originalmente por Big Boom Boom:

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.

Not really, I have my clock always maxed and it chills at 5-7C delta over ambience temp. If there's no load (idle) it shouldn't be anywhere near 50C.

[VisciousFishes]

Publicado originalmente por ☥ - 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.

If it's a constant 60 @ idle then I would take out the heatsink and fan, reseat the thermal paste. Then I would get to work at cleaning out the gaps in your heatsink. I had to work on a friend's old computer once and it was amazing how much dust had got in between the heatsink blades over years of use and no cleaning.

I have been using the 3770 for about 4 years and its a reasonable chip for today's games at stock clocks. Mine is paired with a 1070.

I am with the others who suggest getting more ram. Windows 10, drivers, firewall, antivirus and such use nearly 20% of my 16GB RAM before I run games or DAW.

[Tevron]

Thank you for all of the advice & responses:

Thats a good shout on the thermalpaste. Ill order some noctua thermal paste later. 1st thing... how can i access this "speedstep" on the bios?

This is my motherboard:
https://www.asus.com/ROG-Republic-Of-Gamers/MAXIMUS_IV_EXTREMEZ/

[[☥] - CJ -]

as i also have an ASUS Z68 board ill check where it is on mine, might be in the same area for you.

just a second

[Lord Flashheart]

If the CPU is holding you back then upgrade. I expect that it is not but it will eventually.
The power of CPUs have no gone up much in the last 6 years.
I suggest more memory - another 8 GB to improve performance.
I have an i7-3770k at 4.4 Ghz. It is not holding me back.

Memory and storage have lagged behing CPUs but are catching up.
So I am looking to hopefully to a CPU/Motherboard/Memory upgrade when DDR5 and intel optane are mainstream. I hope also there are Level 4 caches on CPUs also., maybe 64 MB.

[[☥] - CJ -]

Advanced Mode
Advanced Tab
CPU configuration

Thats where its shown on mine

[Tevron]

Just disabled it on my motherboard. Its showing lower temps now. Ive opened everything up in my case and realised my noctua cpu cooler fans have a 3 pin connector on each end. Do i need to get a 4 pin fan to control the speed of the 2 fans on the cooler?

Shall i replace it with this?
Noctua 140 mm 1500 rpm 4-Pin PWM Controlled CPU Cooler Replacement Fan - Grey https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00KF7QO2G/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_u6UkAbV7FHARJ

[[☥] - CJ -]

on each end...
probably to power 2 fans, or as an extender..
shrug

as for that fan, cant say..
i use Corsair