Brother just gave me his ivybridge pc ^^

Dicehunter · 12 Sep 2012 at 22:46

So my brother just decided to give me his PC as hes working away for the next year and said i could keep it, wont see my bro but hey i have a pc ^^
Just wanted to ask peeps how much of a performance gain id see with the following -

Core i7-3770K @ 4.60GHZ cooled BY A Corsair H80 With Corsair Airflow Static Pressure High Performance Fans.
Asus Z77 Maximus V Extreme Intel Z77
16GB DDR3 2133MHZ Corsair Dominator GT With Aiflow Fan And Airflow Pro
EVGA GTX 680 SC W/Backplate

Now the system i did have which i sold to pay for part of my moving of country was an AMD based rig, Asus Crosshair V Formula 990FX, FX 8150 @ 4.60GHZ, 8GB of Corsair Vengeance 1600MHZ and the EVGA GTX 680 SC W/Backplate.

Cant boot it up just yet as my brother ordered the PSU yesterday before he flew out so i have to wait to play ^^

So, How much better will my gaming/computing be ?

antipesto93 · 12 Sep 2012 at 22:49

That is a pretty amazing rig, You can probably max most games

this is what i would build if i had a lot more money

justalex81 · 12 Sep 2012 at 22:53

that is one sweet rig for free!!! i'll give you 500 for it cash now ;-)

keithfa26 · 12 Sep 2012 at 23:05

well you will see a pretty high increase you could always sli them too 680s ?

but yea you will see a good cpu increase as the bulldozers well i shall say no more..

Mei · 12 Sep 2012 at 23:11

can we swap brothers ><

Surveyor · 12 Sep 2012 at 23:18

Are you taking it with you when you leave the country?

Dicehunter · 12 Sep 2012 at 23:26

Surveyor said:
Are you taking it with you when you leave the country?

Didnt have to take it out of the country as it was in the country i was flying to ^^

Crosly · 12 Sep 2012 at 23:27

Damn your lucky. Sweet rig! If that were mine, I wouldn't let anyone use it.

Dicehunter · 12 Sep 2012 at 23:27

keithfa26 said:
well you will see a pretty high increase you could always sli them too 680s ? but yea you will see a good cpu increase as the bulldozers well i shall say no more..

Only 1 x 680, will get another next month though

dacads · 13 Sep 2012 at 10:50

Wow lucky you!

illuz · 13 Sep 2012 at 10:53

Thats a damn expensive rig to be given, lucky man!

foster grant · 13 Sep 2012 at 10:55

I'll give you £600 and a very very sweet girl i know ...she dont have much to say...but !!

Dicehunter · 13 Sep 2012 at 18:49

Bit of an update, installed the PSU today, installed windows 7 and played a few games, not a bad rig ive landed myself ^^

illuz · 13 Sep 2012 at 19:30

Its totally top spec dude, you wanna thank your bro big time

Dicehunter · 13 Sep 2012 at 23:14

To be honest ive not noticed much in the way of fps gains really :-/

olivier renault · 13 Sep 2012 at 23:26

lol rub our noses in!

... And to be fair, you're probably right. But I'd rather have a 3770K, seems a better all round platform.

Nate Silvers · 14 Sep 2012 at 00:35

Yo bro is on crack!

Nate Silvers · 14 Sep 2012 at 00:42

doublepost

Dicehunter · 14 Sep 2012 at 01:30

Nate Silvers said:
Yo bro is on crack!

lol i thought the same thing at the time but he bought the rig and then got told he was working away so yeah, free rig ^^

HankScorpio · 14 Sep 2012 at 02:50

There's a strong possibility that I'm moving to Japan next year to teach for at least a year. My brother can't work a calculator so will probably end up selling my system on the MM before I leave. Your bro should've sold the system and used the extra notes to fly business class