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Haswell owner's, your upgrade path...

Doobedoo said:
Then what are you waiting for? Get your wallet out treat yourself and your brother at the same time. Win Win :D
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Lets put it that way, already did it :p
Saw a great offer on 1800X that couldn't resist . No wonder in half hour whole stock of 20 was gone.....
Lets hope the new CH6 doesn't burn it, like the other CH6 did to the 1700X back in March. Grabbed a mounting kit for the Predator also, as I had sold the other one.
And waiting to see when the EK MLC comes out, f the rumour is correct and we can change the block with QDC to what ever prefilled block or monoblock we want.
Otherwise, I will sit a day, drain the Predator, fit the CH6 monoblock to it and refill it.
 
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Born_2_Kill_83 said:
This makes me smile every time a new CPU and board comes out, the X99 was crap back then the X299 and Z370/8700k is crap now. Upgrading to the latest 1080ti is cool, but it seems if you upgrade your CPU you can never do it right. The general advise is to always wait for the next gen, every release. In fact the last time I can remember a forum getting excited about a CPU and every-one agreeing no matter what you had previous - it was worth an upgrade, was the Q6600.
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I'm not sure that's true and I feel like you're comparing apples to oranges here. The only reason people usually advise waiting for the next generation every release is because most releases since 2011 have had barely any improvement on their predecessors. Right now the advice is even more pertinent because things have hotted up so much in just 7 months of competition no-one really knows what's going to happen. On the other hand, GPUs have been improving more steadily such that upgrading actually has some tangible effect, usually.

Also, upgrading your CPU usually means upgrading your platform (particularly with Intel). A GPU can be used in any machine so it's less of a consideration long-term.
 
I stayed on x58 with an i7 930 for 6 years before extending its life for £50 with a Xeon x5660 that did 4.4GHz. I then moved onto my current 5960x J batch which does 4.6GHz at 1.2v and is looking like another decent buy 18 months on. I cant see anything until at least Icelake-X that I might consider upgrading to, so thats a few years away yet. I imagine eventually there will be cheap broadwell Xeon E5s available to extend its life aswell, much like with my X58 system.

You cant go wrong with the HEDT platform in my opinion.
 
I'm running a 4770k here with a 1080ti at 3440 x1440 100hz.
If I overclock the chip I do feel improvements on games like battlefield 1 were I find it hard to lock down 100fps, and I have considered upgrading but it just doesn't feel like I'll be gaining too much. Honestly contemplating a straight swap for a 4790k to give a more stable higher overclock
 
Well I was running the i7 4770k at 4.6 with my titan pascal 16 gig of 2400 vengeance ram on a hero 6 board. I went to the i7 8770 got a retail chip that is at 5.2 oc'd with the same aio i had with the 4770k.Got the hero x board and 16 gig ddr4 vengeance ram at 3200 and i am so happy with it so far! Wow is smoother then ever and in warhammer total war 2 I use to get on the ingame bench 61 on a mix of mostly high/ 2 on ultra settings zat 1440p. Now full ultra setting on 1440p I get 81fps!. The diffreance is amazing the system runs at 65 ish after 3 hours of soild gaming which is the same as my old 4770k. well worth the upgrade for me :)
 
I am not planning on upgrading anytime soon. My 4790k is still a excellent cpu and there is nothing out at the moment that will give me a worthwhile upgrade for the significant price that it would cost. The game that I play most is largely single threaded so Ryzen would most probably be a downgrade and Coffeelake wouldn't make a massive difference to justify the huge cost. Instead I upgraded from a 27.5" 1920x1200 monitor to a 27" 2560x1440 Gsync monitor which was extremely worthwhile.
 
pastymuncher said:
I am not planning on upgrading anytime soon. My 4790k is still a excellent cpu and there is nothing out at the moment that will give me a worthwhile upgrade for the significant price that it would cost. The game that I play most is largely single threaded so Ryzen would most probably be a downgrade and Coffeelake wouldn't make a massive difference to justify the huge cost. Instead I upgraded from a 27.5" 1920x1200 monitor to a 27" 2560x1440 Gsync monitor which was extremely worthwhile.
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Hell yes, monitor upgrades are so nice. Changes your entire experience more than any other single component IMO.
 
CAT-THE-FIFTH said:
I think the SSD has done that more though - some games would be unplayable without an SSD.
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I guess so but in my head I kinda assume everyone has an SSD these days, whereas most people are still stuck on 1080p TN panels. Depends on timing though, SSD prices aren't as bad as RAM prices but they're still not good. A 1 TB Samsung 850 EVO was nearly as low as £200 around 10-11 months ago, good luck finding anything like that now.
 
DragonQ said:
I guess so but in my head I kinda assume everyone has an SSD these days, whereas most people are still stuck on 1080p TN panels. Depends on timing though, SSD prices aren't as bad as RAM prices but they're still not good. A 1 TB Samsung 850 EVO was nearly as low as £200 around 10-11 months ago, good luck finding anything like that now.
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I went from a 20" 8 bit VA panel to a 25" qHD 10 bit IPS panel,so it was a nice upgrade.

However, when my stupid Sandisk SSD went kaput,I certainly noticed it with two games especially. FO4 already took a billion years to load in its stock form with an SSD,but it not only was ridiculously long but since it was a modded playthrough after a few hundred hours, the whole game became a stuttery mess loading from a HDD since as a game it tends to be really I/O limited too. Planetside 2 was also the first game I really put on an SSD years ago IIRC,since you can die quite often during large battles and the SSD really helped with respawn times.
 
Well after making this thread and a weeks worth of thought process and research about staying with X99 or going I decided to go. I doubt I'll keep the Z370 for as long as I have the X99, but I felt my 5930 was starting to show it's age, 50% usage at all time's in my most played game BF1 is getting up there a bit, the extra 5ghz power of the 8700k and the fact it's 4 years newer will no doubt give me all the headroom I need till the next big Intel/AMD release or DDR5/PCIE upgrade. All I do is gaming and it's fact the 8700k is the best gaming chip - so why not and new and shiney. There's still increase in performance to be had at 1440p and I want to off load the X99 before it becomes worth penny's.
I will come back and share my finding's good and bad.
 
My 4770k has been great cannot really fault it, I want to go 1440p so my GPU needs an upgrade so may build a new rig, and that’s my problem Ryzen looks good, 8700k looks good, but also I’m waiting to hear back on a 5960x at a good price never had the big brother i7.
 
4790k with a 970 on 27" of 1440p gsync goodness.
Its the 970 i would change, the cpu is fine for while yet and nothing feels slow.

I'd probably go back to air cooling too.
 
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