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Interesting! My other native non-threaded quad; the 3570K, only showed age in some games regardless to OC. Tried 4.5Ghz and somehow the same settings refused to keep it stable after a couple of years so I went down to 4Ghz and noticed no difference in what mattered at the time; i.e. gaming. Just some later AAA games had trouble with it like ME: Andromeda and Boarderlands 3. Dark Souls 3 bottlenecked in only two cases the whole game. Average FPS was always good. It's minimum that suffered. I game at 60FPS so the drops were not frequesnt and coped with it for some time.This is a heavily OC'd 2500k @ 4.5GHz with 16GB 1866, 240GB HyperX PCI-E SSD (pre-NVMe), and a pair of Titan Xp's (not in SLI, it's my other mining machine). Playing at 1440p res it games great like you would think with a better than 1080ti card but less than 2080 card. My usual main rig settings on CoD MW I get between 90 and 100fps. Halo about 150fps. RL pegged at 250. BF4-V 90-120fps. Problem is in regular tasks within Windows you can definitely tell where it's aged compared to the newer stuff. When you go from buttery smooth transitions and having multiple things open without CPU being pegged at 100% constantly to chugging on opening a browser or the start menu taking a while to open up it gets noticeable. When certain games are played that are more CPU bound (less FPS, more RPG/RTS) it gets more apparent on the gaming side. The average framerates in the FPS games are fantastic if looking at a sheet of numbers, but the frametimes sometimes spiking because of CPU usage being so high lessens the experience with stutters. This is why I said native quad, because I feel if I had an i7 2600k or 2700k it wouldn't be such an issue.
The other interesting part is that in regular tasks I never had any problems with the SATA SSD. I do open tons of browser tabs and windows with photo and video thumb nails and no problems at all. Delays only happen with heavy-regular tasks like navigating the computer while file compression and media encoding.
I had no plans upgrading then until games started behaving like that when I SLI'ed my GTX 680 4GB (was a bad experience but enough to give clear closure cuz the 2nd card was 2nd hand and defective).
I upgraded this 3570K to 10600K (big jump) only in mid 2020 along side a RTX 2060. For a 1080p 60FPS player with DLSS, this rig will hold up with me for ages to come. Not many games intrigue me so not much pressure is expected.