pleeeeaseeee tell me its time to lose my i7 920

ants83 · 9 Jun 2013 at 11:42

ok guys im bored. sick and tired of not getting to do an uprade for years.

i have an i7 920 at 4.00GHz
12 gb ram
560ti gfx 2gb
corsair 750w psu

just want a change and something that will last me aslong as this setup, ie i want to keep my next pc for a number of years and have the money to upgrade now and may not at a later date.

i was thinking haswell bundle and keeping the gfx? could do this for under £400 i should imagine.
I mainly game on the pc, metro, bf3 ect, my gfx could be better but im happy with it. do a bit of encoding now and again also.

any thoughts?

biuro74 · 9 Jun 2013 at 11:47

Change a case, LOL, if you are fine with graphics.

peahead · 9 Jun 2013 at 11:49

Upgrade the graphics card or the maybe a new monitor the i7 920 is still a great chip

StonedPenguin · 9 Jun 2013 at 11:49

Add a second 560ti? Should be able to grab 1 fairly cheap 2nd hand now.

I dunno about Metro but they will scale pretty good in BF3 and almost double your FPS.

snips86x · 9 Jun 2013 at 11:50

Looking at the benchmark HEREhttp://www.anandtech.com/bench/Product/47?vs=837I would think about upgrading.

This looks good:

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=BU-162-OE&groupid=43&catid=2512&subcat=2604

peahead · 9 Jun 2013 at 11:54

If you mainly gaming upgrade the graphics card that's what i plan on doing with my i7 920 setup should keep
me going for another few years

kaku · 9 Jun 2013 at 12:08

With those games, I'd definitely recommend upgrading the video card. You could manage to grab 2x7950 for that budget too.

olivier renault · 9 Jun 2013 at 12:12

Single 770. That should keep you motoring along just fine. Else, a 4770K setup, but imo unnecessary.

peahead · 9 Jun 2013 at 12:15

olivier renault said:
Single 770. That should keep you motoring along just fine. Else, a 4770K setup, but imo unnecessary.

I totally agree this is what i intend on doing

ants83 · 9 Jun 2013 at 12:43

i guess mabye the hassle of reinstalling ect makes a gpu upgrade a more sensible idea.

Schizo · 9 Jun 2013 at 12:51

I've still got a i7 920 at stock with 24gb ram and a 670,still plays everything on my dell 27" at high res,just get a good graphics card and keep the rest.

On Holiday · 9 Jun 2013 at 13:03

snips86x said:
Looking at the benchmark HEREhttp://www.anandtech.com/bench/Product/47?vs=837I would think about upgrading.

This looks good:

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=BU-162-OE&groupid=43&catid=2512&subcat=2604

OP has already stated he is running his 920 at 4GHz.

Buy a new case / upgrade graphics / get an SSD (if you don't already have one).

ants83 · 9 Jun 2013 at 13:33

YarwoodUK said:
OP has already stated he is running his 920 at 4GHz.

Buy a new case / upgrade graphics / get an SSD (if you don't already have one).

I have bought a case. A few ssds during the last few years! Any ideas on the price of a second hand 2gb 560 ti?

snips86x · 9 Jun 2013 at 13:40

ants83 said:
I have bought a case. A few ssds during the last few years! Any ideas on the price of a second hand 2gb 560 ti?

Do you have access to the MM? May find something there.

MatTheCat · 9 Jun 2013 at 13:41

ants83 said:
ok guys im bored. sick and tired of not getting to do an uprade for years.

i have an i7 920 at 4.00GHz
12 gb ram
560ti gfx 2gb
corsair 750w psu

just want a change and something that will last me aslong as this setup, ie i want to keep my next pc for a number of years and have the money to upgrade now and may not at a later date.

i was thinking haswell bundle and keeping the gfx? could do this for under £400 i should imagine.
I mainly game on the pc, metro, bf3 ect, my gfx could be better but im happy with it. do a bit of encoding now and again also.

any thoughts?

If you are mainly upgrading for your gaming, then as many people are telling you throughout this thread, by far the most important upgrade you could make would be your graphics card. For less than 400 GBP, you could more than double your graphics performance.

ants83 · 9 Jun 2013 at 18:27

Is a 770 the way to go?

Redmint · 9 Jun 2013 at 18:47

The 2gb 560 cards can be hard to find, you'd prob be better off going for a 7970 or 770 and selling your card.

olivier renault · 9 Jun 2013 at 19:01

ants83 said:
Is a 770 the way to go?

Best high performance card, without going into silly money territory. It's a GTX680 with faster RAM, but if you can find a cheap 680, that's always an option. A 7970GHz is about the same as a 680, but for the price, a 770 has more legs. 2GB VRAM is enough, there are also 4GB versions, but they are expensive, and really for triple displays + SLI.

Khazzer · 9 Jun 2013 at 19:23

The original i7s were great chips, my i7 940 lasted nearly 5 years, but finally gave up the ghost about 2 weeks ago (or it may have been my Asus mobo). I have now ordered a 4770K with Gigabyte mobo, 16GB DDR3 and a GTX780 (to replace my HD6950); I have great expectations and according to the pundits I should see a reasonable performance improvement. According to reviews Nvidia 700 seies is the way to go until AMD get their act together with their next gen. I just wish AMD would compete with Intel and improve this trickle feed of improvements in CPUs.

OLDPHART · 9 Jun 2013 at 19:33

Nope, was waiting for Haswell, but sticking with my 920 it still kicks butt, just going to upgrade my GPU instead. Thus saving a good wad of money, for another year or two, until l need too.