new build, is it worth it??

silent · 24 Sep 2014 at 16:11

i have a system that is soon to come out of storage - been there for 1 yr since selling my house - and i have the following:

core i 5 3570k @ 4.5ghz on khuler 920 AIO water cooler
gigabyte z77x ud5h mobo
16 gig of ddr3 1600mhz kingston hyper x ram
120 gig ssd for windows/progs
4 x 1tb and 2tb hdd's
hd 7850 2 gig GPU
blu ray and dvd drives
in win grone

now i want an i7 and thinking devils and Z97 and a new case - corsair air 540 is what i'm fancying.

i have the following to go in it:

kingston hyper x beast 2400 ram 16 gig
240 gig m-sata drive
antec khuler 1250 cpu cooler
R9 280X gpu - may get a GTX 970
new 3/4 tb HDD or at least upgrade 1 tb to 2 tb drives.

i will keep the 120 gig ssd for a game drive.

any recommendations, 3770k or go newer.

will also be getitng a new monitor, not 4 k gaming, so 27 plus sized.

BriT · 24 Sep 2014 at 16:32

Just get a 3770K, haswell isn't much of an improvement espically in games.

DaleTheWhale · 24 Sep 2014 at 16:43

3770k isn't much of an improvement over the current 3570k either.

Grab yourself a shiny 970/980 with a Corsair 540 and enjoy.

CinderzFTW · 24 Sep 2014 at 19:55

Keep what you have, grab a 980 and the 540 air pal.. you're easily set for another 2 years

Doomedspeed · 24 Sep 2014 at 21:46

ThaReaperGuy said:
3770k isn't much of an improvement over the current 3570k either.

Grab yourself a shiny 970/980 with a Corsair 540 and enjoy.

I agree.

silent · 24 Sep 2014 at 22:42

well, the majority rules!

when i change the cpu cooler to my new but old 1250 and the beast ram, shall i go for a higher overclock as my chip didn't flinch at 4.5 ghz on the simple FSB increase??

DaleTheWhale · 25 Sep 2014 at 09:12

Ivybridge didn't make much use of fast RAM? But if you want to change it you can, but it will mess your overclock up as you'll have fasting RAM and slower timings to deal with.

But a fresh higher overclock can't be a bad move, more performance for free right?

silent · 25 Sep 2014 at 09:16

exactly! if i don't need the faster ram i won't use it, i checked out the mobo spec and it takes 2800 oc ram so i figured i'd be able to use mine to clock higher. will need to find ways to do it but i sense with a minor adjustmenet to voltages, mine would go to 4.6-4.8 fairly easily. i may be wrong, i will ask 8 pack for some advice.