Ivybridge to where...

[waspy88]

Hello Guys,

I have got a bit of an upgrade itch at the moment. I am pretty happy with my GPU set up (SLI 780ti) and the only thing that is at the back of my mind is my 3770K.

I have it running it at a modest 4.2 ghz, and its all lovely. However the motherboard I have only has 2 x SATA 6GB/s ports, there is no M.2.. these are all features I am lusting after, as the price of SSDs drop.

Now, will I see a huge improvement by getting a 5820 / 5930 & x99, or am I just best sticking with this ivybridge set up till something better comes along with Skydale?

I could just get better bigger SSDs and sell my smaller ones, but was wondering whether there would be a huge performance gain in going to X99.

All I do is gaming and a bit of light photoshopping on the PC. So I rarely even utilise the CPU at present.

 

[MasterOC]

Single core performance clock for clock is with the 3770k according to cine bench at least , comparing it to my 5820k . You've got four fast cores and hyper threading should anything need more threads

For gaming youll see next to no improvment for a big outlay . Better staying with what you have now , save your pennies untill something better comes along .

 

[r7slayer]

Im wondering same thing but on i5 3750k 4.2 Ghz. Really tempted to jump to 4790k devils canyon. Though I do want a m2 ssd slot or to try the pci-e ssds which tempts me towards x99 route.

 

[ginjaninja]

All I do is gaming and a bit of light photoshopping on the PC. So I rarely even utilise the CPU at present.

more cpu resources isnt good then...

if you want m.2 / pcie ssd ..do you have a pcie3x4 slot? still u want to make sure its bootable or youll be missing some of the benefit.

 

[rodt99]

I am not going to upgrade my 3770K until the one after Skylake. It performs well enough for me, though I'll admit only have 2 SATA3 connectors is a bit annoying.

 

[rodt99]

WooT! 100 posts. I am now a Gangster.

 

[r7slayer]

more cpu resources isnt good then...

if you want m.2 / pcie ssd ..do you have a pcie3x4 slot? still u want to make sure its bootable or youll be missing some of the benefit.

Not currently I dont thats why I want to upgrade I guess. Only have 2 sata 3 slot(6gbs) so either get two largish ssd and raid them n be done with it or upgrade.

 

[jason-uk]

Im in the same boat atm , but i've seen benchmarks that shows that there is no point in upgrading your cpu as there is little performance difference in games .
If your using your pc for other tasks that require more cpu threads then go for it , but for gaming its a no.

 

[rtho782]

I think I'd stay with Ivy.

Quite apart from the fact that the IPC and clock rate improvements are insignificant, z97 isn't that amazing either.

Few boards offer a decent M.2 implementation, the CPU has no extra PCIe lanes, most boards only route 2 lanes of PCIe 2.0 to the M.2 slot, especially if you're using SLi (so you'd need a PLX chip for any more lanes or for PCIe 3.0).

Skylake maybe, as that's supposed to have 20 lanes of PCIe. Your only other option is Haswell-E.

If you really want M.2 get a PCIe x4 to M.2 card. Personally I'm holding off on M.2 until I see a x4 3.0 card with 3Dnand and NVMe that I can boot from and isn't an obscene price.