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Upgrade for a i5 750

Skellz

Skellz

Skellz

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Got a slightly dated i5 750 cpu and i'm starting to see it sweat a little more now days. I'm not into OC'ing much and was thinking about an upgrade, was looking at the new AMD Piledriver CPU's, namely the 9370.

I Dont want to spend out huge amounts to be honest, something like £250-£300 for CPU + Mobo, any recommendations on a combination of the two? I need something that can handle games and design software.

Is it worth upgrading now or better off waiting till 2014?
 
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I just got a really really good deal on a 4670k and Asus Z87-A so if you give me a week or so i will be posting a comparison thread between it and my 760. It may help people sitting on the fence like you and me to choose whether to stick or upgrade. If you have any preference of benchmarks you want me to run let me know.
 
Spend £30 on a decent cooler and get it clocked.

I've easily had 4ghz out of 4 different 750`s and actually had 4.4ghz out of my last one before I bought an i7 875k for some HT goodness, which I'm still using.
 
Yeah overclock that i5 750, be a crime not to do that.

I bought a Noctua NH-C12P SE12 for my i5 760 and it has made a big difference.

From running stock before I am now running at 3.5Ghz / 4.0Ghz with turbo boost.

I have had it upto 4.4Ghz for SuperPi runs.

Get overclocking and you'll find you don't need a new processor.
 
pastymuncher said:
I just got a really really good deal on a 4670k and Asus Z87-A so if you give me a week or so i will be posting a comparison thread between it and my 760. It may help people sitting on the fence like you and me to choose whether to stick or upgrade. If you have any preference of benchmarks you want me to run let me know.
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Cheers, i'd be interested to know how you find it compared to your previous set up.

Also part of the reason for wanting to change is because I would like to get an SSD and the board I have supports 3gb/s not 6gb/s.
 
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I recently upgraded from my trusty i5 750 @ 3.8ghz to an i7 4770k @ 4.6ghz and the different is like light and day. With my gtx780 my 3d mark jumped upwards massively and my system feels so much slicker than the 750.

Your chip is still a great chip but I can assure you the 4th gen CPUs are leagues ahead ;)
 
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Cheers, i'd be interested to know how you find it compared to your previous set up.

Also part of the reason for wanting to change is because I would like to get an SSD and the board I have supports 3gb/s not 6gb/s.
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Get an SSD, it'll make your computer seem SO much faster. Don't worry about 3gb/s - you'll not notice that difference outside of benchmarks.
 
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Cheers, i'd be interested to know how you find it compared to your previous set up.

Also part of the reason for wanting to change is because I would like to get an SSD and the board I have supports 3gb/s not 6gb/s.
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All installed and finished benching at stock and 4Ghz. Going to try to find my max overclock and bench that and then i will put my findings up.



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Get an SSD, it'll make your computer seem SO much faster. Don't worry about 3gb/s - you'll not notice that difference outside of benchmarks.
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That's what i thought before now. I was wrong!! Windows loads much faster, Steam is almost instant now as well. I agree with you about the OP getting a SSD. A SSD, even on a sata2 mobo is a big improvement over a normal hdd though.
 
pasty you sure thats not comparing an install thats been around a while with a fresh one? sata 2 vs sata 3 shouldn't cause a significant difference to steam opening.
 
I was naughty and just uninstalled all the old drivers and installed the new ones. I heard other people got away with not reinstalling win 7 so gave it a go and it worked. Steam was always slow for me from a few updates ago. Now it opens more or less straight away.
 
i had a 750 that i ran at 3.7ghz most of the time, my new i5-4670k is faster
but honestly most thing that i do dont gain at all due to the gpu being the limiting factor

so i would say does your 1156 platform currently have usb3/sata3/pcie3? if it does, i wouldnt bother with the upgrade, do you do anything that is cpu limited?

p.s my big reason for upgrading was usb3/sata3 and switching to mini-itx since 1156 itx boards are impossible to find nowadays for a sensible price.
 
Sata 3 on the few 1156 boards that have it is provided by the awful Marvell controller and is slower than the Intel sata 2 controller (my Asus P7P55D-E Pro had it). There is no pci-e 3.0 on 1156 as you need a Ivybridge or Haswell cpu to provide it.


Currently at 4.5Ghz and stable. If you do lot's of image editing and things like that then Haswell is a big step up over Lynnfield. Gaming wise not so much. The only game i have installed that has a built in benchmark has only gained 3fps so my GTX670 was'nt being held back by my 760 @4Ghz in that game. MMO's will probably be better off with the Haswell though. I should be posting my findings tomorrow. I just want to fine tune this now to see how much more i can get out of it.
 
I do a fair amount of image editing so maybe it would be useful, and no my current mobo would not support USB 3.0, SATA 3 or PCI-E 3.0. Pastymuncher would you say its worth the upgrade if you are combining an SSD with the Haswell chip? Was thinking of getting the 960GB Samsung Evo SSD, I think it would be nicer if I can get the full performance from it using the newer chipsets.

Just wondering is it worth going i5-4760k or stretching to a 4770k for ~£100 more? Still contemplating the FX-8350 as a cheap option for now.
 
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If you take a look at my comparison here image editing will get a massive boost from Haswell. Encoding using handbrake and the benchmark Cinebench R11.5 showed very big increases. Being able to let my SSD stretch it's legs is good as well. Speeds have almost doubled in crystaldisk mark and everything loads much quicker.

For gaming i am not sure it's worth it. I have only played a couple of games so far but have not seen any improvement at all.

There's also the rumour going around that the Haswell refresh next year will need a new chipset even though it's still socket 1150.
 
I Decided to take the plunge as my current rig is 4 years old now and I feel its about time to upgrade rather than wait. Managed to get an ok price of £760 delivered on a i7-4770k, Asus Z87-A & Samsung EVO 840 750GB SSD, which should come next week. Looking at some benches and comparisons on CPU world it would appear there is quite a performance benefit over my current i5-750, I also wanted to try hyperthreading which i regretted missing out on a i7-920 at the time. Also I wanted to make the move to 6GB/s SATA 3 without the use of a addon card, as well as USB 3.0.

Anyway, I am going to use my current 8GB 1600mhz Vengeance Ram and see how my Noctua NH-UH12P cooler fares and try get a 4.2-4.4ghz OC. How do you find the Asus Z87-A board pastymuncher? It was a tossup between it and a Gigabyte D3HP or D3H.

Thanks guys
 
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It's not the best looking of boards but is a damn fine board. The new options in the bios are mind boggling at first but with some help from Setter on here and reading loads of guides on the net i am getting there. My 4670k does 4.4ghz with 1.250v, 4.5Ghz with 1.280v (settled on this for day to day running), 1.340v for 4.6Ghz and 1.380v for 4.7Ghz. Gave up after that because the mhz gains for the voltage increases just is'nt worth it. Currently got the ram running at 1866mhz but now i know what voltages to increase i will try 2100mhz tomorrow. The heatsinks barely get warm even when running Linx AVX edition for stress testing. It is also crossfire and SLI capable so for the money is a good board (especially if you only paid £65 delivered like i did :D:p:D).

In gaming i can't see much of a difference at all compared to my i5 760@4Ghz which is a bit of a disappointment. It's nice to have a cpu that downclocks at idle again though. Never could get my 760 to do that.

The latest bios (1405) is rock solid as well.
 
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Glad to hear its a good board, personally i quite like the colour combo in the pics. Unfortunately i didnt manage to get it for £65, i paid £113 but the other components i got for a fairly good price. It will be nice to toy with some new tech again.
 
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