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8320 to i7 2600k... Would you do it?

johnny_702

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So I had my 8320 at 4.8GHz but bent my h80 mounting bracket and am now back at 4GHz.

I was going to buy a NH-D15 for about 70 quid when I spotted a few i7 2600k + mobos on a local buy and sell.

If I buy the i7 plus mobo for about £180 and sell my 8320 + crosshair v formula z it may end up costing the same, and I can use my h80 with the i7.

I know skylake and x99 are quite a bit faster than my current build but I dont think they are worth the cost of an upgrade.
 
If it comes out at around the same price then I would jump on it depending on what the mobo is that comes with the 2600k. £180 seem's a bit too much though. Going by the prices they sell for in our MM £130-150 seems more like it depending on the motherboard.
 
Thanks for the advice. There are two adds with these mobos:

1, Asus maximus VI Gene

2, Asus p8p67 pro rev b3

Which one would you go for? I think the first one is a micro-atx board so no hope of crossfire in future. But is the second mobo a really old chipset?

Edit: or even what offer I should make for them? What I mean is are they half decent boards?
 
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johnny_702 said:
Thanks for the advice. There are two adds with these mobos:

1, Asus maximus VI Gene

2, Asus p8p67 pro rev b3

Which one would you go for? I think the first one is a micro-atx board so no hope of crossfire in future. But is the second mobo a really old chipset?
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Are you sure it's the Maximus VI? That's socket 1150, not 1155 used by 2600k.
 
It's way too much money for it to come with a P67 motherboard though. I wouldn't pay more than £130 for the 2600k with that board. If it was a Z77 Maximus V Gene then maybe £140-150 but not £180.
 
It's a "IV GENE Z". I made him an offer of £130 for both but he seemed offended by that:D

I will offer the same for the other i7 + mobo and see how this fella takes it :p
 
Ive been looking at doing the same myself there's a 2600k chip on my local buy and sell website for £110 but without a board.
which I was thinking was a bit steep for a cpu on its own.
I was going to post if it was worth it but looking at the response here Ill take that as a no.

I might look at a what a decent board will set me back though
 
I probably would not bother unless its one of the new Intel CPUs which has PCI-E 3.0 like an IB or Haswell Core i7.

What graphics card do you have OP and what games are you playing??
 
Will be a big difference over the slow ass AMD chip definately and the 2600k will overclock well. Still have a 2600k in my old machine at 4.8hz so chances are you will hit 4.5 - 4.6 minimum.
 
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CAT-THE-FIFTH I probably would not bother unless its one of the new Intel CPUs which has PCI-E 3.0 like an IB or Haswell Core i7.

What graphics card do you have OP and what games are you playing??
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I have an r9-290 tri-x, usually play Rust, CsGo and GTA-V at the minute. I just thought it seemed ok if it wasn't that expensive and I would maybe give Rome-2 another go if I thought the i7 would make a difference.

I can run my card at 1150 MHz core, 1500 MHz mem... But what's the point if my 8320 (at 4.8) can't even feed it?lol
 
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