To upgrade or not?

Soldato
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The mobo in my main rig died a few months back (My fault during bios update) and I replaced with a cheap MSI Z77 board I had spare.

System works fine but this board has horrible vdroop. Paired with a 2500k @ 4.4ghz it's 1.36/1.368v idle and 1.312v under load.

Do I stick with what I've got, find a better skt1155 mobo so I can push the 2500k further with a safer idle vcore, or upgrade to Ivy-E/Haswell as I'm putting more money into a dead platform?
 
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