i7 920 Upgrade time ?

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I'm getting the upgrade itch again, and as I'm a bit out of touch with the latest kit wanted to run this past everyone as a possible upgrade to my i7 920.

Intel Core i7-3770K 3.50GHz (Ivybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor - £269.99

MSI Z77 MPower Intel Z77 (Socket 1155) DDR3 ATX Motherboard - £149.99

Samsung Green (MV-3V4G3D/US) 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C11 1600MHz 30nm Dual Channel Kit - £64.99

Total - £484.97

I'll keep my Corsair 850w PSU, Mount Doom CPU cooler, 7970 Gfx card and current SSD and HD. Case is my Corsair 800D.

Anyone have any better suggestions ?
 
Wait a month. On 4th June Intel is releasing Haswell along with it's new socket 1150. Socket 1155 is dead and i don't see any point in going from one dead socket to another. Is your 920 a D0 stepping and is it overclocked? Most should hit 3.8-4Ghz with a decent cooler.
 
Not another i7 920 upgrade thread. :D

All looks good mate.
Before anyone else jumps in with " you might want to see what Haswell has to offer, due out early June", I`ll say it. New Cpus and mobos due on the 1150 socket., sometime around or after June 6th.

Edit, pastymuncher beat me to it.
 
as said wait for haswell, but if you dont want to wait, the components you have selected will still see you good for a while yet. Any reason for the i7 over the i5 tho? its really overkill for gaming only and the i5 will be more than sufficient
 
I know Haswell is on it's way, but I'm a bit reluctant to jump in right at the start as prices tend to be higher, choice of boards more limited and there's usually bugs to be ironed out...
 
Most likely worth waiting for Haswell, or if you wanted a direct replacement for the 920 then the new Ivy-E but I don't think that is out until even later in the year.
 
I would personally wait on Haswell. There is a very very good chance that 1155/1156 coolers will fit the socket aswell :)

Hawell will have lower power consumption, a better IGP (quicksync and LucidMVP will make clever use of it) and a little more ooompf than Ivy. Whilst it's a new socket it is essentially just a slight tweak over Ivy like Ivy was over Sandy.

Ivy does run rather warm due to rubbish paste between the CPU core and the metal shim. I hope Intel doesn't repeat the mistake with Haswell. To be honest even the Sandy i7 2700K shouldn't be sniffed at, it runs cooler so will OC better. That should average out the clock for clock advantage Ivy has.

YOUR BASKET
1 x Intel Core i7-2700K 3.50GHz (Sandybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor - Retail £224.99
1 x MSI Z77 MPower Intel Z77 (Socket 1155) DDR3 ATX Motherboard with FREE F1 RC Car & MSI HDD Enclosure £149.99
1 x Patriot Viper "Black Mamba" Generation 3 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-15000C9 1866MHz Dual Channel Kit (PV38G186C9K) £49.99
Total : £424.97 (includes shipping : FREE).



I don't have a problem with the mobo you picked. It includes wifi and bluetooth, does Xfire/SLi properly and has some nice other freebies thrown in too. I'd probably take this RAM kit over the Samsung green, it's cheaper and the Viper kits do OC quite well too, it also has a lower CAS rating. If you want the Ivybridge CPU fair do's, I just like to show cheaper alternatives when possibubble. Hell as it's £60 less you could add another 8GB of RAM to bring you upto 16GB :)
 
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i doubt haswell will even be worth it from a gaming standpoint. for more cpu intensive stuff you might as well splash for socket 2011. for gaming id wait for the ps4 and see what you need when the next gen ports start arriving!
 
Martini1991 said:
The Ivy temps aren't to do with the quality of the paste.
Rather that it is paste.
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The paste itself cant be that great either tbh. Many people have reported substantial temp drops by de lidding and replacing it with conventional pastes like mx4 etc, though the liquid pro/ultra seem to produce the best results.
 
setter said:
The paste itself cant be that great either tbh. Many people have reported substantial temp drops by de lidding and replacing it with conventional pastes like mx4 etc, though the liquid pro/ultra seem to produce the best results.
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They have indeed! Although it's a terrible risk to take for the sake of 5-10 degrees
 
Seen a few peeps get drops of upto and over 20c, i havent de lidded the chip in sig. But even just by using liquid ultra on the ihs gave me a 4-5c temp drop. Delidding is risky, but ill be replacing the 3570k with a 3770k, ill be purchasing secondhand so i wouldnt rule out buying a chip that has been delidded.
 
i7 920 is still a great CPU and there isn't really anything around significantly better yet. I'd at least wait for haswell before considering an upgrade, although I don't expect that to be a massive leap forwards.
 
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