i5-2500k is still a beast processor.
With the right cooling, you can overclock them to stable speeds of 4.0-4.5ghz or so with Turbo Boost. An overclocked i5-2500k > a lot of other, more expensive i5/i7’s.
I don’t build my own, for what it’s worth. I pick out the parts, sure…but I pay other people with weed and beer to do it for me while I watch. It’s sorta homo erotic I suppose, but it gets the job done.
Building a PC is needlessly pointless. You either have people trying to build the best PC for that exact second (which is pointless because like a car, it’s obsolete when it leaves the parking lot), or you have people building weak pussy machines with change they found in their couch. Just build what you fucking NEED. Are you going to watch a lot of movies and play music on your pc, legit? Throw in a sound card and look into some speakers. Are you going to game and have a ton of browser windows open? Ok, then throw in like 8-16 gigs of ram, and a decent i5 or i7 if you wanna believe the hype or are one of those fucktards who buy things because a number is higher than another number. Are you going to download a bunch of movies and music instead of streaming it like a smart person? Ok grab an extra hard drive or a bigger one than normal. Throw in like 750 or so watt power supply, a generic case, whatever brand name RAM tickles your fancy because I doubt 99% of you even know what ram memory timing is or how it affects your pc, and then go buy the most expensive video card. I’m still beastly using the same old ass video card, with games at full settings, with minimal or no graphical issues at all (Diablo 3 used to give me this weird ass pause occasionally, but that turned out to be my CPU dying a horrible death), that I was using like a decade ago.
Keep reading minimum specs and thinking you need a new pc every time you read the spec list. Keep upgrading the wrong aspects of your pc. Whatever. Got damn Im drunk.
More thoughts on my fist build: I won’t be buying another pre built one again. Went with a 8350 black, 8 gigs of ddr3 1866 ram, a 600w corsair psu, gigabyte 990 mobo, and an msi r7 265.
I actually bought the gpu to try and upgrade my acer pc after returning an r9 370 in hopes that it would play nicer with the mobo- said fuck it and built after that failed. The oc 265 still seems decent, I’ve seen it recommended in a few builds aimed at ps4 tier power.
I just need a PC that plays SFV and will be easily upgradeable in the future. If my current shit can play the game with no need to upgrade I ain’t getting shit.
Game-debate.com has a few tools that will estimate how well your setup will run it at various resolutions.
At what resolution and what graphics settings are acceptable for you?
1920x1080 and ultra settings
Then meet or exceed recommended specs and maintain a clean running OS environment. The thing is we won’t know until the game is out. So you’re either going to have to over kill or wait. On the upgradability front, I don’t know. Intel switches form factor too often for my tastes. There are way too many different socket configurations. And yes, I do understand why the sockets get configured that way. But I think for people like you, Raz0r, who simply want to pick up a CPU and just swap it into your system when you want an upgrade, it’s a bad deal because you’ll end up with a generation-old motherboard and CPU that you can’t do anything with and can’t sell to anyone that will inevitably end up in a landfield somewhere. Just not worth when you can build an AMD system, play SFV to your heart’s content at the same settings and then just pop in a new chip later on down the road.
I’d say to build the best PC your money can buy regardless of what you decide to go with. Trying to save $100 here and there might not be worth it if you’re going to second guess your decision after a few good games come out later on down the road.
:tup:
We already know SFV’s minimum requirements, that’s why I’m doing this. I am going to wait for the beta to see if it runs then make my decision, but it ain’t looking pretty. My proc. now is a quad-core at 2.8GHz. This game seems to require at minimum a 3.5GHz proc. If it weren’t for that alone, I would be fine. But alas, they made a HUGE leap in requirements from SFIV.
You’ll probably be fine with the cpu. For whatever reason it seems like they overdo it with cpu stuff. Witcher 3 for example, I SAS under the cpu requirement but it played perfectly fine.
Also, I still have no Internet (since August 27). Fios set to be installed next week. In an apology for my 1 month with no TV or Internet, they are giving me 100 mbps down/up for the base cost. Still super frustrating.
I was wondering why I haven’t seen you around lately.
It has a “turbo-boost” mode that cranks it up to 3.7GHz you’ll be fine.
SFV minimum CPU requirements: some i3
Raz0r and Darkstalker have i5’s and they’re worried they might not be able to run SFV.
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IT’S A FUCKING UNREAL ENGINE 4 GAME
SFV IS MADE FOR A CONSOLE WITH A FUCKING LAPTOP CPU THAT RUNS AT A WHOPPING 1.6GHZ PER CORE
YOUR AVERAGE INTEL PROCESSOR IS OVER DOUBLE THE SPEED OF THAT FUCKING POS AMD LAPTOP CPU PER CORE
UNREAL ENGINE GAMES CAN BE RUN ON "TOASTERS"
GO PLAY UNREAL ENGINE 4 ON YOUR PC, LET THAT BE YOUR BENCHMARK
IF YOUR PROCESSOR HAS HYPERTHREADING WITH FOUR PHYSICAL CORES YOU TECHNICALLY HAVE 8 CORES
8 USABLE CORES @ 3.X GHZ > 6(OR 7?) USABLE CORES IN THE PS4 RUNNING AT 1.6GHZ
SYSTEM SPECS ARE ALWAYS OVERBLOWN
SEE: THE WITCHER 3 AND MGSV
FUCKING JABRONIS
LOL Get graphics. Profit.
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Shit I bet the only thing that wont be good for SFV on my crusty rig is my RAM. I have only 4GB. I wont be buying SFV but I bet that, if anything, is what would hold me back.
I’m sitting on 12GB of RAM, and I feel like that’s not going to be enough. I’m probably going to do a full rebuild because of the RAM ceiling on my current mobo, and I’ll need a new power supply anyway. Beefier CPU and GPU are considered nice-to-haves right now.
What game have you played that ever went over 4-8GB of RAM usage? Shit, what application have you used that went over that much?
12GB is more than enough, it’s actually overkill 99.9% of the time.
Yeah but does Witcher 3 and MGS5 run at a fixed 60fps?
MGSV I think is fixed at 60, but Witcher 3 needs a really strong GPU to get above 60 assuming you are running Ultra with Hairworks off (Hairworks sucks and kills your frames).
Real question is what AMD’s next CPU is going to be like with Keller working on it and then leaving shortly after its completion.
I wanted to buy the South Park game on GMG since it’s on sale and they are apparently out of the stock. The first time I’ve ever encountered a download being out of stock.