Going from a e8400 to i7

AlanJ

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Hi all, my old spec was

e8400 @ 3.8
evga 680i
4gb pc2 6400
gts8800 640mb
hx520 psu

New spec

OCZ Gold 6GB
920 D0 planning on overclocking
Gigabyte GA-EX58-UD3R Intel X58
4870x2
hx 750 psu


Is this a worthy upgrade? How much overall performance will i be gaining?

Will this last me for years to come?


cheers all
 
about 200% maybe? i think crysis will see about 100% gain on each core. so if u got 20fps you will prob get about 5 more. hope this helps.

xx
 
AlanJ said:
Is this a worthy upgrade?
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Depends, do you have the money to spend, is your current PC not running what you want/the settings you need?

AlanJ said:
How much overall performance will i be gaining?
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In games? Not much, 95% of games only use up to two cores. The few that do will run better. The biggest differenc would be the graphics card, but you could upgrade that in your current rig.

AlanJ said:
Will this last me for years to come?
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It's a newer socket, but then are you likely to upgrade the processor later, or just swap to a new socket (like now).
 
I would have thought most of the gain for games would come from the gpu, not the cpu. I'm not sure that there will be a big 'normal usage' difference unless you do photoshop/other media stuff...
 
Also want the know the same thing..

I am moving from

AMD 4400+ @ 2.42ghz
2GB 3500LL Pro
A8N32-SLI
Nvidia 7600GT

To the build in my sig. Am I going to be astounded?
 
rexehuk said:
Also want the know the same thing..

I am moving from

AMD 4400+ @ 2.42ghz
2GB 3500LL Pro
A8N32-SLI
Nvidia 7600GT

To the build in my sig. Am I going to be astounded?
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did u really have to ask that?

Yes its going to fly
 
rexehuk, you'll notice a big difference - definitely worth it.

AlanJ, the new system will be faster when multitasking and much quicker if you do any encoding work, but the CPU/RAM/mobo upgrade won't make much difference in games. If you just want better gaming performance then I'd just get the 4870X2 for now and hold off on the full upgrade until things are cheaper.
 
I'd like to think i would wait another couple of months if i were you but then again i would love an I7 and if i had the money would be likely to buy one now but thats cause i am impatient.
 
i think what you could do is ask yourself:

a) does my current system do what i want?
b) do i have the cash?
c) is there a weak component?

i7 being the new platform i think would last longer then the "dead" LGA775 but then again don't people same in gaming an E8400 can beat i7
 
Mattus said:
AlanJ, the new system will be faster when multitasking and much quicker if you do any encoding work, but the CPU/RAM/mobo upgrade won't make much difference in games. If you just want better gaming performance then I'd just get the 4870X2 for now and hold off on the full upgrade until things are cheaper.
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This.

If you want the extra gaming performance, the i7 won't give anywhere near as much of a boost over the e8x00 series as you'll get with that 8800->4870x2 upgrade.
 
Just buy the GPU. The only thing that holds you down is the graphics.

Unless you're doing professional video/graphic encoding on daily basis, but then you'll probably want a mac over PC anyways.
 
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