Is it worth the money?

HalfBakedJake

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Hi Guys,

I know one of you will of had this issue in the past. I have what was a high end gaming pc (4 years old now) with a AMD Phenom II X6 950T Black edition, Asus M4A87TD EVO and a Asus 560ti Direct CU II 1gb.

This is currently sat in this heap of junk from yesteryear!

Antec 900 v1
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I have ordered myself a new Fractal Design Define r4 case and was wondering if I will lose airflow between the two?

My second question is I want to overclock the CPU a biut. Currently I have an Artic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro rev 2 sat on the CPU. The question is:

Is it worth me spending £100 on a Corsair Hydro H70, H75, H100? Will I see much of an increase in the processor or should I save my money (For Intel 4770k/Z87 Mobo)
 
1. You will lose a small amount of airflow overall. Your intakes are behind a door on the fractal r4 and have more restriction so naturally airflow will be reduced. I wouldnt expect it to make a huge difference to your temps overall though... maybe a few degrees. On the plus side the fractal should be quieter for the same reason.

2. A 4770k / 4570k would definitely provide a bigger increase in processor performance than overclocking your current phenom ii. You would lose 2 cores but unless you are doing heavily multithreaded stuff like video encoding you probably wont notice.

That said your current processor is still pretty capable and an overclock would do you no harm. The freezer 7 isnt a great cooler but could probably cope with a small oc.

Food for thought - if you do upgrade the cooler you would likely be able to re-use it on any future processor / board upgrades in the near future - so it definitely wouldn't be a waste of money in the long term.

3. In terms of upgrades you will most notice:

If you are looking for more gaming performance then you would probably be better off upgrading the gfx card before the CPU.

If you are looking for a general increase in performance / operating speed across the PC then an SSD would be be the best upgrade. (If you don't already have one)

The CPU in terms of cost to noticible benefit ratio would probably be the last thing I would upgrade.

Hope that helps
 
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Hi Thanks for the reply.

So in retrospect if I wanted to increase my gaming performance I would be better off getting say a 750ti for £120 rather than a Corsair H100i for £110?

I thought this would be the case with the Define r4 but hopefully I will make back the airflow by having some cable management around the back of the motherboard.

Another question if you dont mind. Just received my XSPC Temp sensor where is the best place to place this within the case?
 
1. I'm not sure a 750ti would be a significant upgrade - imo the real upgrade from your current card would be a GTX 760, but I appreciate it is much more expensive. (£+80 or so).

2. Depends what you want to measure the temp of. I used to put my temp sensor as close as possible to the top of the cpu.
 
Thanks for the recommendations.

I guess seeing as I wouldn't be updating to a 4770k I could use that budget and the budget from the cpu cooler on a card so maybe could get a gtx780?
 
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Jesus, just use google (thats actually not the first time i've said that today)

HalfBakedJake said:
Thanks for the recommendations.

I guess seeing as I wouldn't be updating to a 4770k I could use that budget and the budget from the cpu cooler on a card so maybe could get a gtx780?
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Well no,

Firstly, i think you've mixed up your CPU, there is NO x6 950T, theres a X4 960T, or a X6 1050T.. Which one is it?

Secondly, your CPU (whichever one it is) will bottlneck the 780 so much you may as well just get a 270X.
 
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