To wait or not to wait?

Damien.

Damien.

Damien.

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Afternoon all.

Recently purchased crossfire 6970's.

Noticed a bottleneck in certain games such as crysis, where the CPU just isnt allowing the 6970's to go for it. I am currently running an AMD 965BE in an Asus Crosshair III board at 3.8GHZ.

I am seriously tempted to go for the following;

Intel Core i5-2500K 3.30GHz (Sandybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor - Retail [BX80623I52500K]
£161.99

Asus P67 Sabertooth Intel P67 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard - (Sandybridge) ** B3 REVISION **
£144.98

Would this be a wise move, or am I better off waiting or even is there a different combo that would work better?
 
Depends if you feel Bulldozer will make a difference - and do you feel Intel will reduce pricing of the 2500K to undermine AMDs launch day.

6970 CF are not cheap (£289 x2) - perhaps socket 2011 & X79 will better suit you if you have deep enough pockets.
 
pat_c said:
Depends if you feel Bulldozer will make a difference - and do you feel Intel will reduce pricing of the 2500K to undermine AMDs launch day.

6970 CF are not cheap (£289 x2) - perhaps socket 2011 & X79 will better suit you if you have deep enough pockets.
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6970's are in place now. I just want to get the most out of them.

I have heard very good things about 2500k and according to benches it hammers my oc'd 965 at stock settings.

Maybe Intel will reduce the price but this would be the only reason I wait a short while. Whilst I do love AMD kit, I dont feel the Bulldozer is going to be the right choice for dual GPU setups.

I really don't know.

EDIT;

I mean this;

Intel Core i5-2500K 3.30GHz (Sandybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor - Retail [BX80623I52500K]

and this

Asus P8Z68-V Intel Z68 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard [90-MIBGC0-G0AAY00Z]

at £286 for the lot makes the upgrade very attractive. Taking into account, I could sell my kit for circa £150.
 
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Your basket
Product Name Qty Price Line Total
Intel Core i5-2500K 3.30GHz (Sandybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor - Retail £161.99
(£134.99) £161.99
(£134.99)
Gigabyte Z68XP-UD3 Intel Z68 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard £99.98
(£83.32) £99.98
(£83.32)
Kingston HyperX Genesis Grey 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (KHX1600C9D3X2K2/8GX) £45.98
(£38.32) £45.98
(£38.32)
Sub Total : £256.63
Shipping cost assumes delivery to UK Mainland with:
DPD Next Day Parcel
(This can be changed during checkout) Shipping : £9.50
VAT is being charged at 20.00% VAT : £53.23
Total : £319.36

You should get free del.

Review of motherboard;
http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/z68xp-ud3-dz68db,review-32228-19.html
 
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You should be fine with the Corsair, one thing to watch is if you use a after market cooler this may interfear with the heatsinks on the memory.
 
Well you would be saving £45, and it looks to have slightly better latencies than that Kingston stuff...

You should be fine.

Edit: Gah you beat me! :P
 
Brilliant guys, thanks for the help.

The i5 should allow my 6970's to run free at least and I cant see myself having to upgrade for a good while after this.

Realistically, what sort of clock do you think I will achieve with the board and chip and how easy is it to do?
 
You should achieve around 4.4ghz, I have not overclocked the 2500 but it should be the case of increasing the multiplier.
 
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