Tempted to upgrade from Nehalem to Haswell.

[Five.Stars]

Hi there, got a budget of around probably £600 to play with but not under any rush. Really fancy a new toy to go with my watercooled 7970's. i7920 has been run at 4ghz since I bought it as an overclocked bundle in November 09. So nearly 4 years and has served me well, but looking for something new and to give bit more oomph to my 7970's.

Specced myself this:

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MB-563-AS

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CP-471-IN

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MY-150-GL

Which comes to £592 total.

Thoughts?

Also, I don't really want to de-lid so what kind of overclock am I looking at on the cpu - will be under a Raystorm cpu block and have a 240 + 360 rad with Scythe GT's cooling them. Do they get to 5Ghz under water regularly or is that massively over ambitious?

Cheers.

 

[Five.Stars]

Thanks mate, that is the input I was both looking for and dreading at same time, since now i am really tempted to pull the trigger lol.

Have got a 120hz monitor so that is good to hear there is a noticable increase in fps. Would assume it really helps with any minimum framerates as well?

Very very tempted, but just rebuilt system (including wc loop) after adding 2nd 7970 so not sure i can be bothered stripping down. Something to contemplate over next few days/ weeks.

Cheers.