Possible upgrade to Ivybridge and SSD

CK61938

CK61938

CK61938

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Hello all,

Nothing is definitive yet, but I am looking into moving to Ivybridge.

My currenty set up is:

Core i7 920 D0 (@ 4.0GHz)
12GB DDR3 RAM (mixture of OCZ and Corsair 6GB each)
ASUS P6T-SE
Corsair H-50 CPU cooler
250GB Samsung HDD

What I am looking to upgrade to is the following:

Core i5 3570K
Patriot Viper Extreme 16GB DDR3 RAM
OCZ Agility 3 240GB
Gigabyte Z77X-D3H

Those 4 components are priced together at just under £500 which is what I was looking at.

Questions:

Can I still use the Corsair H-50 cooler with the i5 CPU or do you recommend the H-60 or H-80?

Is the list more than good enough for me? I will be using it mainly for watching movies, playing music and video editing.

Everything else in the machine will remain the same and they are:

AMD 6570 GPU
Antec 902 case
Creative X-Fi Xtreme Music sound card
Samsung 1TB Spinpoint HDD
Maxtor 250GB HDD
3x external HDD (2x 500GB and 1TB)
Samsung Blu-ray drive

The real main reason for me wanting to upgrade is to use the OCZ SSD since it is epically cheap (and hoping it goes down again at some point since I missed out on previous deals). So I really want to take advantage of the speed.

Thanks in advance for the input people. Let me know what you suggest.
 
Kotu said:
why not just get the SSD and run it at sata2 speeds with your current setup?
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This seems most sensible to me, the difference between SATA2 and SATA3 is not really notaceable in normal day to day use. Also your processor/RAM setup is still decent :)
 
I was asking miself if it's worth upgrading to Ivybridge and SSD. Then I bought an SSD and the question is gone. Even if it runs on SATA2, still massive difference compared to the regular HDDs. Upgrading to SATA3 is a minor, unless you copy massive ammounts of data from SSD to SSD.
We should wait until Haswell arrives. Just buy a nice 256Gb SSD (Crucial or Samsung) and you'll be sorted.
 
Well that was my first thought. Get the SSD and be done with it. Yes the current set up is fine, but I guess I just wanted to be sure that with what I have the SSD will cope ok in SATA 2 rather than SATA 3.

Ok then guess I will just get the SSD then lol.

Thanks peeps. Helpful as always :)
 
CPU is still fine. I would definitely get an SSD as they're so cheap now, and will make a significant difference even if bottlenecked to Sata 2 speeds. I would also be tempted to upgrade the GPU although it depends what games you play/and at what resolutions
 
jb7 said:
CPU is still fine. I would definitely get an SSD as they're so cheap now, and will make a significant difference even if bottlenecked to Sata 2 speeds. I would also be tempted to upgrade the GPU although it depends what games you play/and at what resolutions
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I already have a purpose built gaming machine for just that ;)
 
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