Core i5 2500K is a gaming beast

[Kirin_gaming]

Locknuts said:

Kirin_gaming said:
The Sandy Bridge chips were, and still are great for gaming.I had a 2600k for my first build ever and managed to get it to 5.0Ghz for daily use, it was great for emulation, maybe even better than my 5960X running at 4.5Ghz.It is really sad that a lot of software doesn't take advantage of newer chips, I've never seen my CPU go above 55% while gaming at 4K and multitasking at the same time, just imagine the possibilities if all 16 threads were used effectively or even 32 threads in a not so distant future.

I've been hoping the Jaguar chips in the consoles would force devs to learn to code multithreaded software. It seems to be flowing over to the PC side, just really slowly. Probably because a good dual core can still easily outperform the 8 core CPUs in the consoles doing the same tasks.

I was hoping for that too, but like you said the adoption of multithread usage has been pretty stagnant.Some games, if I'm not mistaken have been using up to 6 cores, but I don't think it uses all 12 threads.AMD's Zen CPUs will have a 16 core, 32 thread version, supposedly releasing this year, and Intel's 6960X will probably be a 16 core CPU also, maybe even 18, so it is really depressing that games are only just starting to use 6 cores.