Upgrade from i7 920 d0

[Tattysnuc]

I went from i7 980 to 2600k's and have since gone back to an i7 950.

SLI seemed to work better on the 900 series boards for me. Real world, the only difference I feel is the temperature difference of my room. It's now warm again

 

[Catanonia]

mmm, I have had the same dilemma with my 4.1Ghz 920, but in the end I scratched the upgrade itch.

I found a 990x on the bay for £420 and went full water cooling instead of Corsair H50.

I am now OC @ 4.81Ghz on the 990x and steady 70 degree temperatures.

Like for like under all benchmarks, with all the same hardware, my 990x is 56% better than the 920 @ 4.1 according to PassMark and others. Obviously the 6 cores helps

Well worth the upgrade to keep the 1366 board running for another few years and then i will make another big leap for me at least, not a gamer but a processor.

 

[doyll]

I've thought about going Gulftown but for little more can have new generation package.

 

[Stoner81]

I am still running my 930 @ 4GHz with 12GB RAM and a GTX480 and gaming wise I run pretty much everything maxed out. It struggled a bit with The Witcher 2 so I notched down AA and other things and it ran uber smooth after that (all done at 1920x1080).

I won't be upgrading until Haswell comes out or even later depending on how Haswell performs.

 

[Catanonia]

I've thought about going Gulftown but for little more can have new generation package.

My thoughts as well until I added up the cost of all the other parts I would need to get as well.

 

[swaussie]

I am going to throw the cat amongst the pigeons - having skipped the SB upgrade after reading all the "dont bother, you wont notice the difference posts" - I fell to the upgrade bug when Ivy was released. I was running an i7-920@4Ghz, 6GB ram, 7970@1125, RevoX2, etc. I ended up with a [email protected] and 16GB ram on an Asus P8Z77 and I would beg to differ that there is no noticable improvement. Overall the system is faster and smoother. Gaming is smoother, bootup is faster and response overall is better. No its not a huge amount of difference, but it surely is noticable.

having said that - would I do it again knowing the gains I would get against my 920? No, too much cost for not enough gain - but it was an improvement.