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System upgrade time?

NTesla

NTesla

NTesla

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Hello guys (n gals)

This is another am I doing the right thing post.

Current set up
i7 920 ( bloomfield ) @ 3.6ghz on air cooling (Noctua)
Asus P6T SE Mobo
Gigabyte Windforce HD7950 3gb DDR5
12gb triple channel RAM (3 x 4gb)
120gb SSD for OS
1TB HDD for everything else

CPU was bought and OC'd from launch
Upgraded the PSU,GPU and SSD January 2013

I use the system mainly for games, but also a little for 3dsmax and Adobe premier pro and after effects.. but gaming is the important thing.

I was considering the following-

i7 4790k (Devils canyon)
Asus z9z - k
Vengence pro 16gb dual channel ( 2 x 8gb )

and reusing everything else...

So, you think its worth it? itll be around £500.. I keep reading other posts all over the web some saying its not worth it and some saying the opposite. I dont tend to upgrade often maybe once every 2 or 3 years for various parts.. but never a whole new system at once.

Games are okay on my current system but some that i play the most ( arma 2 / 3 mods ) are really choppy in cities, im also wanting to play star citizen once its finished.

Is it worth waiting the next lot of cpu's with pci-e3 and DDR4?

Any advice would be useful!

Thanks
 
Triple channel just means the motherboard uses three sticks to utilise the full bandwidth of the memory controller channel. There's nothing particularly special about the DDR memory itself.

You can use just two sticks for a Z97 board and run dual channel or you can even just use all three sticks, it just means the channel with only one stick wont use all the available bandwidth.

Ideally, you should try and find a 4th stick that matches the speed and CAS ratings of what you've already got and then you're golden.
 
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