As stated in title.
Back in October, my PC started acting up and by November it wouldn't boot. The good news was that the motherboard was still on warranty and got fixed, coming back good as new. The bad news was that the CPU kicked the bucket at the same time. I'm currently running a sluggish Pentium my brother had lying around (not even the decent Anniversary one) in the meantime, but I want to get back up to something decent.
Warranty-wise, it's still within the warranty period but of course I had it overclocked for a while. Even though it was set back to stock, last time I went into the BIOS with it. Hence I've voided the warranty, so solution there.
Some might suggest an upgrade to a newer chipset. I'm not fond of the idea when I have 16GB of good DDR3 RAM, which would be rather costly to upgrade to DDR4, the price hikes for motherboards and CPUs and the small pain of having sort out new mounting hardware for my cooler. I.e. upgrading from LGA1150 would be too costly for too little gain at this time.
Looking around online, I missed the boat on getting a replacement 4790k at a decent price. Or even a replacement i5-4690k and non-k versions of each. Stock is nil everywhere, though one place claims to have one on order with an indefinite ETA. Not even OCUK has any stock, which is incidentally where I bought this 4790k from at a great price. I found one place which has suspiciously good prices (and honestly looks like a scam site to me), but other than that, the only other 4790k available are on the bay, with a hefty £80 import fee from the US.
I don't mind going for a downgrade to an i5. But it seems the 4690s are also tough to find. elsewhere has the i5-4460 still in stock and I even saw a Xeon E3-1321v3 in stock for a reasonable price.
What course of action do folks recommend I take? Do I just buy the Xeon and be done with it?
Back in October, my PC started acting up and by November it wouldn't boot. The good news was that the motherboard was still on warranty and got fixed, coming back good as new. The bad news was that the CPU kicked the bucket at the same time. I'm currently running a sluggish Pentium my brother had lying around (not even the decent Anniversary one) in the meantime, but I want to get back up to something decent.
Warranty-wise, it's still within the warranty period but of course I had it overclocked for a while. Even though it was set back to stock, last time I went into the BIOS with it. Hence I've voided the warranty, so solution there.
Some might suggest an upgrade to a newer chipset. I'm not fond of the idea when I have 16GB of good DDR3 RAM, which would be rather costly to upgrade to DDR4, the price hikes for motherboards and CPUs and the small pain of having sort out new mounting hardware for my cooler. I.e. upgrading from LGA1150 would be too costly for too little gain at this time.
Looking around online, I missed the boat on getting a replacement 4790k at a decent price. Or even a replacement i5-4690k and non-k versions of each. Stock is nil everywhere, though one place claims to have one on order with an indefinite ETA. Not even OCUK has any stock, which is incidentally where I bought this 4790k from at a great price. I found one place which has suspiciously good prices (and honestly looks like a scam site to me), but other than that, the only other 4790k available are on the bay, with a hefty £80 import fee from the US.
I don't mind going for a downgrade to an i5. But it seems the 4690s are also tough to find. elsewhere has the i5-4460 still in stock and I even saw a Xeon E3-1321v3 in stock for a reasonable price.
What course of action do folks recommend I take? Do I just buy the Xeon and be done with it?
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