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I want to be tight, is my upgrade worth it?

Princey

Princey

Princey

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Hi Guys,

I'll be performing a rebuild of my machine at the end of the month along with a new video card, motherboard, case, PSU and a custom water-cooling loop.

I currently have an i5 760 @ 4.00Ghz running stock volts under a H50 cooler. Temps peak at 60oC and idle around 20oC. This is with a Gigabyte P55-UD3 motherboard and 8GB of DDR3 RAM.

This new build is going to have a black theme so I'll be purchasing a black motherboard. My thought though is it really worth my buying an 1156 motherboard for my i5 760? Would I be better of selling the i5 and getting a 2500k? If I can get my i5 760 to 4.5Ghz under a customer water loop would I see much benefit moving to an 2500k running at the same frequency?
 
If you're upgrading, you might as well get the latest thing rather than get a three year old motherboard. You'll also be lucky to see 4.5ghz out of a 760. The 2500k is much better clock for clock and can easily be overclocked to 4.5ghz without having to resort to a custom loop.
 
Princey said:
and a custom water-cooling loop.



Would I be better of selling the i5 and getting a 2500k?
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I would say that if you are going to go to the effort of a custom water cooling loop - which is a massive pain to change components - upgrade as much as you can now and try to leave it as long as possible.
 
Thing is, a nice black 1156 motherboard is going to cost around £60 on ebay. An IB i5 and a Z77 motherboard is going to cost around £300. Selling my i5 and P55-UD3 will probably net me £120. So £180 to change for what could only be a 25-30% increase in performance? Am I looking at this wrong?

From what I can see 1156 waterblocks will fit 1155 sockets so it won't be too much faf to swap over in a years time when prices of fallen.
 
Princey said:
If I can get my i5 760 to 4.5Ghz under a customer water loop would I see much benefit moving to an 2500k running at the same frequency?
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Not going to happen.
The very best binned of these chips topped out at 4.2ghz under a decent loop.
I had one myself, at the time it was great.
 
Agree with Legion. Custom water is'nt going to get you to 4.5ghz. Mine will not budge past 4.2ghz no matter what i try. I would really hang on until Haswell and it's new socket next year before upgrading. Is there anything that your 760 is struggling at?
 
I wouldn't change your motherboard if you're getting 4GHz at stock volts, that sounds like a really good motherboard. Also Lynnfield is only about 10% slower clock for clock than Sandy, you'd get more of a boost with a new GPU unless is already a 570 or something
 
I only wanted to change my board as I want a black build, my motherboad is bright blue.

Really thinking about this though, a blue and black theme might work if I have blue coolant and black everything else.

My current video card is a rather toasty GTX 470.
 
Princey said:
Hi Guys,

I'll be performing a rebuild of my machine at the end of the month along with a new video card, motherboard, case, PSU and a custom water-cooling loop.

I currently have an i5 760 @ 4.00Ghz running stock volts under a H50 cooler. Temps peak at 60oC and idle around 20oC. This is with a Gigabyte P55-UD3 motherboard and 8GB of DDR3 RAM.

This new build is going to have a black theme so I'll be purchasing a black motherboard. My thought though is it really worth my buying an 1156 motherboard for my i5 760? Would I be better of selling the i5 and getting a 2500k? If I can get my i5 760 to 4.5Ghz under a customer water loop would I see much benefit moving to an 2500k running at the same frequency?
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I would stick with what you have for now. Have a look at this article:

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/processor-architecture-benchmark,2974-9.html

Look at the single thread results of the Core i7 875k,as the IPC should be around the same.

SB improved the uncore over the previous generation and was a die shrink,which enabled much higher stock clockspeeds,and higher average overclocks. Remember the Core i5 2500K runs at a 500MHZ higher base clockspeed and around 370MHZ higher Turbo Boost clockspeed than your Core i5 760.
 
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