i5 750 to ?

Columbo · 28 Feb 2013 at 12:13

Motherboard has died so I thought its would probably be a good idea to change to a new CPU as well.

The question is what to as I've been out of the hardware loop for ages now and really don't want to be reading endless reviews of synthetic benchmarks as life is far too short and I'd rather get some actual user advice.

So is Piledriver worth a look or do I just buy Sandybridge?

Main use for the machine is gaming, ripping blu-ray to mkv and lots of photo editing.

I use 2 x-fired 5850's for gaming and so the motherboard will need to be compatible.

Thanks in advance.

linwelin · 28 Feb 2013 at 12:33

what kind of budget do you have ? you could go ivy now or wait for haswell (not out for a good few months yet)

snips86x · 28 Feb 2013 at 12:39

linwelin said:
what kind of budget do you have ? you could go ivy now or wait for haswell (not out for a good few months yet)

Socket 2011 would be a help with your editing!

joebingo · 28 Feb 2013 at 13:01

It depends on whether you want something to tide you by or something to last.

If it helps any I built the system in my sig with exactly what you have in mind to do with your system (upgrading gfx today)

pastymuncher · 28 Feb 2013 at 13:20

With the recent ridiculous price hikes on Intel cpu's i would pick up a second hand 1156 mobo and wait for Haswell. As you do a lot of editing and stuff i would have said X79 with a 3820 but even those cpu's have been hiked.

Columbo · 28 Feb 2013 at 14:33

Budget is around £250 mark.

I looked the AMD 8320 and it seemed pretty good value compared to the intel variants.

Thoughts?

I can't really wait as I want to get some photo's edited as well as stave off a zombie apocalypse and the laptop just doesn't cut it.

Martini1991 · 28 Feb 2013 at 14:42

pastymuncher said:
With the recent ridiculous price hikes on Intel cpu's i would pick up a second hand 1156 mobo and wait for Haswell. As you do a lot of editing and stuff i would have said X79 with a 3820 but even those cpu's have been hiked.

The 3280's on a decent price and the 3570k was 161 yesterday.

Martini1991 · 28 Feb 2013 at 14:44

ManCuBuS said:
Budget is around £250 mark.

I looked the AMD 8320 and it seemed pretty good value compared to the intel variants.

Thoughts?

I can't really wait as I want to get some photo's edited as well as stave off a zombie apocalypse and the laptop just doesn't cut it.

It'll likely be a downgrade/sidegrade in gaming, an overclocked i5 750 will easily go best an FX8320 in the majority of games.
For photo editing, it depends on the software.

Columbo · 28 Feb 2013 at 15:33

Martini1991 said:
It'll likely be a downgrade/sidegrade in gaming, an overclocked i5 750 will easily go best an FX8320 in the majority of games.
For photo editing, it depends on the software.

It was clocked at 4ghz and performance wise I've been perfectly happy with it. If its about equal in gaming then I'm fine with it as I'm not really a frame-rate whore.

For editing I use Lightroom, Elements and Fast stone for images and Vegas, Premier and Handbrake for videos and its in these I'd like to think I would see some gain from a bit of shiny new hardware.