I'm going to sell my 2500K/R9 290 machine for hopefully

>>60292833
How much do you really expect to get for that? i5-2500K is basically obsolete already and no-one wants R9 290 spaceheater.

>>60292889
People on eBay or even Craigslist would be willing to pay top dollar for a 2500K since they fell for the "one of the best processors of all time XDDDDD" meme.

>>60292889
>obsolete
That is fucking bullshit.

>>60292889
oddly enough people in my area will pay close to 500 for this garbage

>>60293192
He's not wrong though. Even if it's clocked at 5 GHz, it's still going to be a major bottleneck.

>>60293224
He is wrong though. A 2500K is more then enough for regular usage and gaming.
I have a 3470+970 and I can run pretty much everything on ultra/high settings.

>>60293224
>>60293251
Forgot to mention that Intel has barely made any improvements.

>>60293204
buy a refurb HP workstation or something, slap a GPU on that and go to town widdit

>60292889
290 alone is not good enough, need to strap a water cooled FX9370 in there.
Now we are talking space heater that doubles as a sauna worthy of chernobyl status.

>>60292833
I sold my 2500k + 980 last year for 1100. I modded the case though(power supply shroud, made from real metal!(tm)), and it had 2 ssds and 3.5 tb of storage. Oh and it was with a 144hz monitor and a k70 keyboard and gaymin mouse. The computer probably only sold for 700.

>>60292833
Not sure it's wise anon
Going from 2500k to 4690k would be a sidegrade
And any Skylake/kabylake will cost you moar than you will sell for!
Does the 2500k and 290 is that bad ?
For light gaming it's more then enough
Especially at 1080p

What are you main reason for upgrading?