What processor would be a good upgrade from the Intel i7 2600k?

Question

Hey guys, I'm thinking of upgrading my processor. I want to be able to play Microsoft Flight Simulator X on really high settings with perfect frame rates. Here are my system specs.

Motherboard - Gigabyte Z68XP-UD3P
Graphics - Nvidia GTX 560 ti
Processor - Intel core i7 2600K
Hard Drives - Corsair Neutron 250GB & Corsair Force 60GB (Both solid state drives)
PSU - Standard 800W PSU from Novatech (Came with a barebone bundle)
Ram - Corsair Vengeance 4 X 4GB.
Cooling - Corsair H80i Water cooling System.
Case - NZXT Full tower

Even with my current specs, I still am unable to play Microsoft Flight simulator X on the top settings. I've heard it's allot more CPU dependant than the GPU. So I'm thinking of upgrading. What processor will I see a good difference with? Thanks for reading.

Answer 1

You will only gain about a 5% performance increase from a 2600K to a 3770K. To get the most out of an upgrade, you would need to get something like a 3930K and an LGA 2011 board - the 3930K would be able to play the simulator on much higher settings if you overclock it, but this would cost about $800 to upgrade. Alternatively, the 3960 or 3970X are about $1000 each, plus a $200 LGA 2011 board, and therefore you could look at that.



Honestly though, if you aren't willing to fork out that much, you won't gain more than 10%, probably only 5%, performance increase from an upgrade to a 3770K.

Answer 2

There isn't anything substantially more powerful than a Core i7 2600K among desktop GPUs.



The Core i7 3770K is the Ivy Bridge replacement.. but it's just 10% faster at stock speed, so that's not worth paying $300 for. You'd beat that by overclocking.



The socket LGA 2011 Core i7 CPUs are a bit stronger, but way more expensive.



FSX is an old game developed when CPUs and GPUs were MUCH less powerful than today. Though it's heavily CPU dependent, your GPU does matter (and a GTX 560 Ti should be plenty unless you're trying to play on triple 1080p monitors or somesuch). What's your screen resolution?



Maybe disable hyper threading? In some titles that does negatively affect performance.

Answer 3

I7 2600k Upgrade

Answer 4

No, there is no choose simply by fact the overall performance strengthen is fantastically much undetectable. An overclocked 2600k would be comparable if no longer exceed the 4770k, you may examine this on any cpu benchmarking internet site. the hot haswell shape seems to in effortless terms be a have considerable bigger performance, on that be conscious you would be able to could get a clean ability grant in case you do improve simply by fact the main recent intel platform required help for c6,7 states and good voltage at low load. the only reason you're able to evaluate upgrading is that in case you choose the hot helpful properties of the z87 platform such simply by fact the better sata rev.3 and usb 3.0, new gpu lane chop up bandwidth branch.

Answer 5

Thats a good enough cpu that upgrading (just) it now would be a bit foolish. If you jump up to an ivy bridge, you will be running it on a chipset not optimized for it ( pci 3.0 and so on) so to get the most out of an ivy bridge you would need to change your motherboard, too. Given a great cpu like the one you have, it makes little sense to me to switch to Ivy when Haswell is right around the corner.

Answer 6

What?! You should be able to play that without a problem. U should prob check ur system for spyware and whatnot because I have an oced 2600k @ 5GHZ on water and asus maximus IV Xtreme with a R7850 and I'm pushing 110fps on 1080p and your system should perform similarly

Answer 7

The 3770k is essentially the replacement model of the 2600k, go for this.

Answer 8

A i5-3570k or and do agree the i7-3770k

Answer 9

try the extreme version of the core series, that can give you more of a performance rating in your PC.