Thinking of upgrading...advice?

DaveOwl

DaveOwl

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As you can see in my signature I have a QX6800 at the moment (not overclocked at all) with 4GB of memory (DDR2), an 8800 Ultra and I play games at 1920x1200. CS GO seems pretty good with the FPS from my testing on public servers so far but a few other games tend to struggle.

I'm thinking about the i5-2500k, 8GB of memory, an ASUS P8Z77V-PRO, 240GB Corsair Force GS and a GTX 670 FTW. Ideally I would like to upgrade in stages but of course the CPU and memory won't be happening without the motherboard and vice versa.

Will I see a massive difference on the i5 in games over the QX6800 and if I get the GTX 670 before I upgrade the CPU I'm guessing it will probably be bottlenecked by it?
 
If you're getting a Z77 board I'd look at an i5-3570k CPU to compliment it.

Not much point buying older tech really.


Run some tests on your rig as it is. see what your CPU usage is during gaming.
This will determine whether you want to swap out the CPU or the GPU first/second.
 
I had heard that the Ivy Bridge run hotter and are not as good at overclocking but then they 'unlock the potential' better on the Z77's? What's the best tool for monitoring the CPU usage while in game?
 
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