Ok same question nearly 3 years on! Time to upgrade my i7 920?

[Blackhorse]

Hi Guys

First of all thanks for helping an idiot over the years, its very much appreciated, to be honest its the sole reason I wont shop anywhere else (obviously no direct link to the store, but the its down to their forum so figure its only just to keep the money going to an area where im helped!)


Following on from the thread I posted in March 2013
Motherboard and processor remain the same, tweaked a few quick fire wins i.e. graphics card and memory

This computer seems to be doing well but I seem to have this itch to upgrade what is an 6.5 year old processor and motherboard!

My primary use is gaming, seems to still perform well barring the odd hiccup with tearing in certain games



Currently running:
Intel Core i7 920 D0 Stepping (SLBEJ) 2.66GHz (Nehalem) (Socket LGA1366) (Clocked at 4.1GHz)
Asus P6T Deluxe v2 Intel X58 (Socket 1366) PCI-Express DDR3 Motherboard
Be Quiet! Dark Power Pro 850W ATX2.2 Modular SLi Compliant Power Supply
Corsair CMZ12GX3M3A1600C9 12GB DDR3

Graphics card is obviously a more recent purchase and is fine
ASUS Radeon HD 7970 ROG MATRIX Platinum 3GB

I run games on a single monitor at 1080 resolution (reason for this as its a
Samsung S27A750D 27" 120Hz 3D Widescreen Ultra Thin LED Monitor

So same question if i could
Am i actually going to notice any improvements? Or just hang fire again?!

 

[Blackhorse]

cpu can still cut it in gaming.

do you have an SSD ?
i would upgrade the GPU if you have to scratch that itch.

Thanks everyone, as always a great response from all thoughts within this process! =)

Hey yea Ive got 2 SSD's running in the RIG
Admittedly they are bottlenecked with the motherboard been only SATA II
But none the less a massive improvement on what I had before

Games run fine, high settings in most cases without fail (unless the game is coded badly which can cause some problems I have to drop the settings slightly)

 

[Blackhorse]

Thanks for all the input guys
Whilst I'm comfortably clocked at 4.1ghz
Maybe I should leave things for another 6 months

X99 does look appealing however! :|

 

[Blackhorse]

OMG, Thanks so much for ideas and advice! =)
I love the fact there are those against, those for and those on the fence like myself

Love this forum, given me lots of food for thought

As it stands gonna sit tight and watch with very much bated breathe! =)