Am I going to see a benefit???......

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I've been umming and ahhing for absolutely AGES about upgrading my machine. At the moment I currently have a Q6600, with 16GB DDR2 RAM in a Gigabyte EP 43-S3L motherboard. My hard drives are a Vertex 2e 60GB that I boot from and 1GB storage drive. My graphics is a Gefore 460.

I've been eyeing up these i5 2500k systems for a while now and i'm just trying to weigh up if there will be a good speed increase (i.e. worthwhile) to upgrade from my current specs.

I'll only be upgrading the motherboard, CPU, RAM and SSD.

Q6600 -> i5 2500k
Current mobo (USB2, DDR2 and SATA2) -> New mobo (PCI 3.0, USB3, DDR3, SATA3)
Vertex 2e 60GB (SATA2) -> Corsair Force 3 240GB (SATA3)
16GB DDR2 RAM -> 8GB (Poss 16GB) PC3-12800 DDR3 RAM.

Will those jumps in CPU, motherboard, RAM (DDR2->DDR3) and SSD (I know capacity is a given benefit but the jump from SATA2->SATA3) give me huge performance gains bearing in mind I do not play games. The majority of my time on my PC is spent making music (using multiple software VST's, manipulating WAV audio), editing in Photoshop (some 3D, life size banners, posters, flyers etc), some video editing and general internet, pr0n, Facebook etc.

 

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Thanks for the response guys.

No the Q6600 is stock, never really bothered with the overclockingness until I saw the i5 2500k's were dead easy to get good gains from.

What sort of price point are the Ivybridge chips going to be when they release? Same as the i5's out now? (£165ish?)

I may just wait, what sort of performance increase does the Ivy i5 have over the Sandy i5 is it worthwhile?

 

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Thanks for that shadow_boxer.....think I'm going to wait till Ivybridge is out and then pick up and i5 2500k or i7 2600k for cheap in Members Market (well thats the plan ahha!)