i5-750 - Worth upgrading?

[Rodpad]

I'm currently running an i5-750 overclocked to around 3.5Ghz on a Scythe Mine Rev.B (I could do more but I prefer cooler temps and quieter acoustics).

Other internals include:

MSI Frozr II GTX 560 Ti
Gigabyte P55-US3L
Crucial 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 Ballistix Sport Memory - 1600Mhz
Coolermaster Silent Pro 700W Modular PSU
Asus Xonar DX
OCZ Agility 3 SSD
Various HDDs

Is it really worth upgrade to an Ivy Bridge or should I hold off until the Haswell line next year?

The only reason why I ask rather than doing my own research is that I can't seem to find any benchmarks that include all of the "i" CPU generations.

The main games I play/will be playing are WoW, Diablo 3, Guild Wars 2, and Borderlands 2.

I also do a spot of capturing with Dxtory, encoding in Adobe Premiere along with streaming in XSplit, all of which are extremely CPU intensive, especially the latter.

I'm leaning towards the "I don't really need to upgrade" opinion, but any advice would be most welcome.

Thanks!

 

[pastymuncher]

Wait for Haswell. It's what i am doing.

 

[pieman109]

I'd wait. I've got an i5 760 at 4.0ghz and it does everything I want extremely well and I can't justify the cost of a new mobo as well for the "noticeable" increase in performance I'd get.
Actually tempted to try and push 760 a bit higher and see how that goes.

 

[s452]

on an i7860 here, and im waiting too.

 

[cmndr_andi]

I would also suggest sticking with what you have.

Upgrading to Ivy bridge will give you some performance boost in the CPU-heavy applications - however if you don't reckon this performance increase is worth the ~£275 for a new Z77 board and i5 3570K CPU then it isn't worth doing. As for gaming performance, you really won't see any difference compared to your current CPU - since with nice existing CPU games will be limited by the GTX 560Ti graphics card.

Instead, you may want to consider investing in a larger CPU cooler like the amazing thermalright silver arrow. this cooler is extremely effective - so would allow you to overclock your cpu as far as possible, while also remaining very quiet. Here is a review which shows it's cooling and low noise performance.

 

[flinco]

Shouldnt be any need to upgrade until you get a graphics card which is bottlenecked by your i5.

 

[Rodpad]

Thanks for the advice. I'll stick with what I've got and wait for Haswell next year.

Cheers

 

[SirCanealot]

I have an i5 750 @ 4ghz and I'm thinking along the same lines.

Unfortunately, I know a decent deal on a CPU and mobo will eventually come along.

But until then, I'm playing the waiting game with IB and I will see if the heat and power usage comes down... Not that I want to overclock it that heavily, but we'll see...

 

[maddy2012]

Got an i5 750 myself and i nearly caved, used the money to buy a gtx680 instead.