So I just bought:

Ayyy Zotac.



Sport one myself, albeit a 980.

lol, awesome

I should get it next Tuesday, Ill take a picture or two :)

Think of it as a CPU is a pencil which draws the outline, and the GPU like a paint brush. The CPU you mentioned will have trouble keeping up with the GPU. Meaning that you cant draw as fast as you can colour which leads to alot of wasted power.

Not entirely accurate. You assume that all games are built the same and use the same paint brush, they don't.

In a CPU bound game the old Sandy Bridge chip might hold him back (Not many of these games actually exist though, a few edge cases like Civilization exist where there is massive gains to be had.)
If the game is GPU bound on even a Titan GPU, then the CPU won't make much of a difference.

Fact of the matter is, Sandy Bridge is one of those chips that will stand the a test-of-time, my Sandy Bridge chip is able to out-bench even some of Intel's latest and greatest 6 core chips, overclocked of course.

The i5 2400 and 2500k are only differentiated by clockspeed.
The i5 2400 runs at 3.1ghz and will Turbo to 3.4ghz.
The i5 2500k runs at 3.3ghz and will Turbo to 3.7ghz.

On no planet does 200-300mhz make a tangible difference when we are talking these clock rates.

In every game that lists a Core i5 2500K you can expect the same experience.

Yes, it will out-bench the FX-6300 by a good 20-25% in most single threaded situations, the 6300 can close the gap to around a 10% difference in Favor of the i5 2400 once all 6 cores are under heavy use on the 6300.

With that said, Anandtech pegs Skylake at a 25% gain over Sandy Bridge overall.
So that Core i5 2400 would be roughly equivalent to a 2.4ghz~ Quad Core Core i5 6300/6200. (Just so you can have some kind of future reference.)

In my opinion you still have a few years left of life in that old CPU.

The 1060 also doesn't need a 400w PSU, it will use 150w at most for itself.
It's mostly to account for your entire system and for PSU aging. (PSU's maximum wattage tends to decrease due to sheer age.)

It's a great card for your rig.

I'm in da club with Zotac 960 AMP

Thanks Pemalite, that was incredibly informative and also made me feel confident in my purchase!

i5 2400 is fine.

When they recommend a 2500K they do it based on stock clock. An i5 2400 will boost above a 2500K's stock clock.

As you can see it runs just fine 2400+ GTX950.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-8vuft4hxaE

Zotac users unite!