I7 920 upgrade

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I have an I7 920, on a 1366 mobo with 6Gb RAM - I am thinking of transferring this to my tired children's machine (as an upgrade for theirs).

Any ideas for a decent, relatively future proof upgrade? I only surf and play games (I know, I know, the current chip isn't being properly utilised!).

Could you advise on both mobo and RAM too - I've been out of the loop on upgrades for 3 or so years now
 
Stick with your current setup, if you have not already done it see if you can oc the CPU to about 4.0ghz.

I use two i7 9xx systems and also an i7 3960x system, for gaming there is no difference between the three of them.
 
If you really want to do the upgrade then a i5-3570k or a i7-3770k will see you through for quite some time but the performance at standard clock will be about the same as your current i7 920.

I can see why you would want to upgrade to do the hand me down thing, i do the same with my parents, they get my cast off which is a fantastic upgrade for them and I get to justify the new shiny machine to myself at least :)
 
Like the first guy said really the 920 OC'd should be fine for most games out ATM, it has almost the same gaming performance as an i5 750 so with a decent overclock should do for anything you play. Of course going to a i5 3570k would see an FPS increase in games but what use is an increase when what you have does the job fine in the first place. I.E it would equal about a 40 fps increase in WoW but that's pointless as FPS > whats needed is superfluous (especially in WoW as that's optimized for 60 FPS and going higher causes issues)
 
Im sitting on an I7 920 C0 step @ 3,6ghz which is doable I think by pretty much any combo of 920 and motherboard and my gaming experience is awwsome. The chip is solid even today and I don't think even Haswell will be a good enough reason for me to upgrade it. Battlefield 3, Borderlands 2, Batman AC whatever I throw at it just works like it should.

I can understand the "Lust" for new toys as we all most likely have from time to time but if it were me I would wait atleast 1 generation more until we have solid Haswell benchmarks and maybe even the next gen AMD cpu(if the wait isn't to long)
 
I had a 920 running at 4Ghz that I only sold 3/4 months ago. I have a GeForce 460 in it and I could play everything at 1920x1200 with everything maxed out.

Unless you are playing at a higher rez then it will play pretty much everything out there.
 
Made the change from a 4.2ghz i7 920 to a 3570k also at 4.2. No difference in games whatsoever. The 3570k does run a bit cooler though.
 
Loads of life in that chip yet. I'm on an i5-750 and have had the upgrade itch since SandyBridge came out, but it's just not worth the money for the performance boost.
 
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