Upgrade advice

[budwozza]

Hi Guys,

I am looking to upgrade my Intel I7 920 (8gb Corsair ram), video card, Psu and hard drives are all ok.

I play games but have also just started to dabble with video editing (GoPro) and need something faster.

I have been looking at the 5820k or the 4970k, which would you choose and why, also what MB and Ram would you get?

Oh and PCI express ssds, worth getting over my Samsung sad?

Thanks,

Wozza.

 

[budwozza]

Hi Wozza. What motherboard do you have? the reason I ask is because you mention video editing which cares about core count. Head to head a hex core Xeon X5650 is around the same sort of productive speed as a 4790k.

You could literally drop one in and save a ton of money to put toward the graphics card.

Thanks for the replies and DOH, yes I mean a 4790k

I have a Gigabyte Z68X-UD7-B3, its a few years old now, so I think its time to upgrade.

From what I have read so far, I am leaning towards a 5820k as the extra cores will help when video editing and a lot of reviews rate the X99 chipset over the Z170.