Sandybridge upgrade

Infamous786

Infamous786

Infamous786

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Hello Chaps,

I am thinking about finally upgrading my trusty Sandybridge 2600K at 4.5ghz, it has started to give me stability issues. for example Lan losing connection, Sometimes freezing. I have removed the oc and also reinstalled windows.

I have a decent case already, Corsiar 850 watt power supply. I would like to keep my 6950 graphics card.

I dont game as much as before, mainly for browsing, movies 4k, some work occasional game. But would like something quite decent. I would want a m2 drive. But not in the loop what is good at the moment. I would like to spend Max 1k.

Cheers
 
I always stuck with Intel, I dont really want to mess around with OC any more. Work is just normal office based work but does have large excel sheets. Sometimes I do encode some videos. I just want a fast machine that is stable and fairly future proof. I would have stuck with my SB but its starting to annoy me.
 
I think a flavour of Ryzen would suit you best, if you are willing to swap to amd, they seem a match with your usage and budget. I am however, not an expert beyond this so im sure you will get some ideas from others. Failing that, coffee lake will be out soon and should give good performance, maybe slanted to games, or you could look at a 7800x(+) for more encode bias.
 
They have indeed, and seem to be the go to 'bang for buck' cpu range as they normally are. Not sure when CL is out, i went x299 myself so im not too bothered, but theres rather a large thread about it in the cpu section. Its hard to go wrong these days with CPUs, lots of choice out there, which can be good and bad of course!
 
Potentially, more so in encoding etc. Depending on the games and res/detail levels maybe not so much there. a lot of people still use Sandy very sucessfully
 
Yes I would stick with it, but i have a feeling my mobo is dying. I did a spec earlier something on the lines of this:

Intel Core i7-7740X 4.3GHz (KabyLake X / Basin Falls) Socket LGA2066 Processor - Retail
Asus Prime X299-A (Socket 2066) Intel X299 ATX Motherboard
Corsair Vengeance LPX 16GB (2x8GB) DDR4 PC4-29200C18 3600MHz Dual Channel Kit - Black (CMK16GX4M2B36
Samsung 960 EVO Polaris 500GB M.2 2280 PCI-e 3.0 x4 NVMe Solid State Drive
 
Now that's a can of worms, hehe.

That CPU is quad core, has massive overclocking headroom and is (in a lot of peoples opinion) the best gaming CPU for current games. However if you don't want to overclock then its a bit wasted as its fairly similar to the 7700k performance wise. It cant use the quad channel memory of the x299 system and doesnt have as many pcie lanes (which wouldnt affect you to be fair)

However, you could always get that and down the line upgrade to a 7900 or such for a more multithreaded beast, but i would say ideally get the 6 core one at a minimum if you wanted to go x299

I use the prime x299 deluxe and i cant really fault it, everything has just worked, defo recommend the board, lots of features.
 
Yes thats why i thought I would ask here, you see with gaming I hardly play them and the graphics card I have would not be up to it. Thanks for pointing that out, which Intel ones are 6 cores?
 
7800x: https://www.overclockers.co.uk/inte...ocket-lga2066-processor-retail-cp-638-in.html

And the coffee lake one - 8700K - different socket though

But to be honest if gaming is low priority then you could save some money on the Ryzen, a nice Asus board, something like a 1700x and some samsung b-die memory of at least 3200 and you will be set for a while. (b die memory is the 8 pack stuff and the gskill trident z off the top of my head) - B-die is because some ram has issues with ryzen.
 
I understand man, i really do ;)

Good thing though, like i said you cant go wrong with either these days. But if you want to encode the more cores the merrier :)
 
my feeling is games/work will favour intel, especially if you not overclocking as kirby lake e.g. now has stock turbo speeds of well over 4ghz. Even in 2017 per core performance is king for games/work.

However you said you occasionally encode, and ryzen will do well for encoding.

So I dont know basically :)
 
Infamous786 said:
Thanks, When is coffee lake out? I not used AMD for a long time, have they since improved?
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Compare prices for a 7700K (4 core) and a 1700 (8 core) and you'll see that AMD is the better value. Performance is almost identical per core per clock now at the same clock speed.

I suggest an 8 core Ryzen CPU for you.

If you want intel wait for the 6 core mainstream i7 in October.

chrcoluk said:
my feeling is games/work will favour intel, especially if you not overclocking as kirby lake e.g. now has stock turbo speeds of well over 4ghz. Even in 2017 per core performance is king for games/work.

However you said you occasionally encode, and ryzen will do well for encoding.

So I dont know basically :)
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Kirby is a Nintendo character. It's Kaby Lake.
 
If your not into overclocking the ryzen 1600x has 6 cores & 12 threads and turbos upto 4ghz out of the box with the stock cooler. At around £200 for the cpu and £80-100 for a b350 board and about £80 for 16gb ddr4 it would be your best bangs for bucks upgrade.
 
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