Sandybridge upgrade worth it?

dalehitchy1

dalehitchy1

dalehitchy1

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I have a sandy bridge 2500k cpu, 8gb ram and amd 6950 gpu

I was thinking of upgrading when the haswell-e comes out... but was wondering if it would be worth it. I wanted to get an i7 as I have started rendering a lot of videos for my youtube channel and it does take a good hour to render an hour video.

I have also started to see my gpu lacking... although its still quite good.

Do you think the haswell-e refresh will be worth it? or how about the x99's. I don't know too much about these cpu's, so if anyone could give some advice on when i should upgrade.
 
It should be worth the upgrade seeing as your CPU is coming up on four years old. Haswell-e looks promising, X99 is no doubt going to be very expensive though.
 
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my heart was set on an decent i7 due to rendering to be honest... but just wondering whether itd be worth it now with the performance gains, later with the haswell e or wait a bit longer for the x99's
 
dalehitchy1 said:
hmmm why whats the estimated prices on the x99's
looks like it will be the haswell-e then
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You'll also have to think about RAM prices, X99 will be using DDR4. The current OcUK prices are apparently going to go down, but still I think DDR4 will be expensive at first. For a cheap upgrade, as RJC said, a 26/2700k or 3770k with a BIOS flash will be excellent for rendering (for now). It entirely depends on whether you will have the funds for the X99 platform when it's released?
 
Shivy011 said:
You'll also have to think about RAM prices, X99 will be using DDR4. The current OcUK prices are apparently going to go down, but still I think DDR4 will be expensive at first. For a cheap upgrade, as RJC said, a 26/2700k or 3770k with a BIOS flash will be excellent for rendering (for now). It entirely depends on whether you will have the funds for the X99 platform when it's released?
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do x99 cpu / boards exclusivlty use ddr4? its not backwards compatible with DDR3?
 
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