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Phenom 1100T, need to upgrade?

Enigma_exe

Enigma_exe

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Hiya all!

I'm planning on doing some upgrading soon, including my MOBO from a Gigabyte GA-880GM-UD2H to the Asus Crosshair V Formula Z and my Antec 300 to the Akasa Viper.

So I was wondering, should I upgrade my CPU?

Or try my hand at OC'ing with watercooling and see what I can squeeze out?
 
I'd say it depends what you were planning to upgrade to.
I went from a 1055T OC'd to 3.8GHz to a FX8350 @ 4.5GHz and didn't really notice all that much difference. Some things were faster, like video encoding, but not by as much as you'd expect given 2 extra cores and 700MHz extra clock speed.
Gaming wise it was hard top tell as the games I was playing at the time didn't seem to have a priblem on the 1055T. Guild Wars 2 didn't run as well on the FX-8350 as it did on the 1055T.

If you were going to go to Intel, you might notice an improvement in things that only use 4 or less cores.
 
The board will give you a nice few extras, and will overclock miles better than the one you've currently got. I'd stick with your CPU for now unless you want to run lots of stuff that uses 8 cores fully.
 
First of, thanks for the advice!

I don't think I need to upgrade the CPU personally, as I don't particularly care about running everything on max, but wondered if anyone had experienced any problems with the chip after a few years of service. :)

That said, I'm willing to hold out if Intel has something on the horizon, any suggestions?
 
Intel's just launched Haswell.
If you don't feel the need to upgrade your CPU, stay on your platform until AMD shows Steamroller if you don't go Haswell.
 
SR in its full capacity won't be out untl 2014 however, and I wouldn't be buying an AM3+ board in anticipation for it.

Assuming that AM3+ is Steamrollers socket, there's very likely to be a new chipset, at least you'd hope so, AMD still don't have native PCI-E 3.0 support, it's been thrown on a few boards though.
 
Yeah it would make sense, have AMD managed to scale down to 22nm then yet? Or is Steamroller gonna to be 14nm, that I've heard Intel is working on?
 
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