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Going from FX8350 to 4770k

BurntProc said:
Do you have a monitor to push the cards? If you are locked to 60hz 1080p then your monitor will be the main bottleneck and need replacing first (or at the same time :))
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Exactly my sentiments BP:

Th0nt said:
I would be also considering selling one of the 290x's and get a quality display (unsure of what you have) or something to finish the system off. The other option is to hold on to this money and start saving a stash for the latest cpu/mobo/ram bundle for 2015.

You can still get great gaming done on one GPU with your system.
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Top monitor with only one of them cards would make a decent system - pretty balanced.

If you have to have them GPU's it's going to be an expensive upgrade getting the rest to match (monitor, mobo, CPU etc).
 
The Gigabyte Z87 OC is sexy :)

Although I just moved to Ivy Bridge for £300

My main board was £300+ and I managed to find an entailed in eBay that have them for £111.95 brand spanking new in the box!!!

Then I paid £165 for this used 3770k, could have bought a new 3770k but I tend to buy used CPU's as you see if they're a proven overclocked before you actually buy them.

A luxury you simply don't have with new CPU's.

Sold my 2600k setup and the whole move cost around £110 and it's much faster due to the higher clock on the 3770k ( 2600k maxed at 4.8Ghz ) and the extra IPC.
 
@ ALXAndy, It is not nonsense, since Intel scrapped the NetBurst crap and went back to the drawing board and used the better Pentium 3 tech and came out with the C2D AMD have been far behind and I was a AMD fanboy.

Owning a AMD just not change this apart from in your head.
 
Ha, you should take a little note of frame rates you get in games currently etc, and then compare them to what you get with the Intel, and how it feels etc.

With the Gigabyte and Asus being the same price, I'd have to get the Gigabyte personally.
 
almighty15 said:
If he's gaming at 1080p with 2x R290's he'll get a MONSTER improvement by moving to Intel.
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Do you mean he'll go from 150FPS that he cannot render, to 250FPS that he cannot render? If he's stuck on 60Hz then he's probably using vsync - until he removes that bottleneck what exactly is the point?

I'd do both, get a 4770 and pimped out monitors. Any less and he's just wasting the 290s, regardless of what CPU he uses
 
BurntProc said:
Do you mean he'll go from 150FPS that he cannot render, to 250FPS that he cannot render? If he's stuck on 60Hz then he's probably using vsync - until he removes that bottleneck what exactly is the point?

I'd do both, get a 4770 and pimped out monitors. Any less and he's just wasting the 290s, regardless of what CPU he uses
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+1, I don't think he got it but what do I know ;)
 
im on 1080p at the moment but its all part of building the system, it has to be one thing at a time and im not made of money to go out and just buy the whole shabang in one go. I bet not many people have just gone out and bought the near toip end system straight away. I will go 4k when the displays are decent enough and more affordable until then i will pickup a nice 1600p display(at the moment using a 1080p 3d projector which is awsome) so in time i will get there.
 
Well if you wanted to phase it in as your not made of money then selling one of the cards whilst they could get decent money and get a decent monitor would have been sensible.

Then you could do CPU/mobo/RAM and build from this.
 
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