As the topic says, wondering how long my i5-2500 (non-K) is gonna last, namely because I intend to get a GTX 1070 eventually. It's hard to tell how much games actually tax the CPU, because so far, it's holding up extremely well, and we are quite settled in this console generation and I don't imagine games to get much more demanding for awhile yet. For simplicity, I'll list out my questions:
a) How different is the i5 2500 to an i5 6500 Skylake? Would I notice this in games, or what type of games?
b) Will the i5 2500 bottleneck at all with the GTX 1070? So far with my gtx 970 on the main computer, everything runs fine including Witcher 3 (on High everything at 1080.)
c) Upgrading motherboard, and RAM for the new socket is costly. Is DDR4 and all the rest worth it?
Thanks much y'all
a) How different is the i5 2500 to an i5 6500 Skylake? Would I notice this in games, or what type of games?
b) Will the i5 2500 bottleneck at all with the GTX 1070? So far with my gtx 970 on the main computer, everything runs fine including Witcher 3 (on High everything at 1080.)
c) Upgrading motherboard, and RAM for the new socket is costly. Is DDR4 and all the rest worth it?
Thanks much y'all