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Upgrade from i7 920 d0

UberGinge

UberGinge

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Hi guys,

Is there anything that will give a decent noticeable boost over an i7 920 d0 running at 4GHz?

I have a 7970 at stock that I use in eyefinity mode, 5760 x 1080. So is there anything that would have a noticeable difference?
 
Noticable? No I don't think so, unless you were encoding with a hex core or something.

I too have an i7 920 do at 4ghz and I cannot justify (as much as I'd like to) the upgrade to newr cpu's.

Unless you need usb 3 / sata 3 or any of the features on the newer boards, or of course you have oodles of spare cash, I'd stay put for now.
 
Had a feeling that there would be nothing noticable over what I have. Just really have the upgrade itch, and was wanting to scratch it. Guess I'll just E45 it for the time being :D
 
That depends on if the new setup also will get overclocked or not ?
If you plan on running stock speed then no. IF overlocking the new setup then yes you'll gain a bit but it really limited especially at that resolution where you run into a GPU bottleneck.
The only other thing that really would boost your performance is getting another HD7970.

Sunday I just upgraded from Intel Core i7 870 2.93GHz, Asus P7P55WS SuperComputer to Intel Core i7 3820 3.6GHz, Gigabyte X79UD3. While there is a difference in performance it's not enormous and no way near double the computing performance. I did the upgrade while the "old hardware" would still be worth a little penny.

You can take a look here http://www.pcgameshardware.de/aid,8...Core-i7-3820-im-Test-Test-des-Tages/CPU/Test/
and you can compare your 920 with the 860 (in regards of stock clocks), and you can see what performance increase there would be up to newer CPUs.
 
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Yeah I plan on adding another in there at some point in the future, as well as a decent watercooling setup. So I will be overclocking the socks of the new stuff.
 
Another vote to stay with what you have.

I'm in same boat you are and would love to jump up to something better... problem is the 'jump' isn't worth it yet.
 
Yeah same here, my 930 does everything fine i use my PC for..still getting a big upgrade itch tho :)
 
I went 930 to 3820 4ghz vs 4.75ghz and have noticed I can get a solid 60fps in games where only 50fps stuttering was possible. I'll add another 7970 now knowing I can handle it.
 
bemaniac said:
I went 930 to 3820 4ghz vs 4.75ghz and have noticed I can get a solid 60fps in games where only 50fps stuttering was possible. I'll add another 7970 now knowing I can handle it.
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50FPS stuttering with a 4ghz 930?

A problem with your setup most probably...A new cpu would not stop stuttering...

I guess you reinstalled windows on your new build?;):p
 
UberGinge said:
Hi guys,

Is there anything that will give a decent noticeable boost over an i7 920 d0 running at 4GHz?

I have a 7970 at stock that I use in eyefinity mode, 5760 x 1080. So is there anything that would have a noticeable difference?
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Nope


I'm at 4ghz with my 920 and see no reason to upgrade...even editing Full HD not playin a few games lol
 
Exactly the same processor I have. The only reason I would upgrade is that the compatible motherboards with the socket type 1366 can't get a decent native sata 3 controller, so I'm restricted to sata 2 speeds.
 
you cant push sata3 anyway unless you use the fastest ssd drives; and even then its mainly for benchmarking boasting...a decent ssd running on sata2 is almost as fast in real world use.
 
robbalmbra said:
Exactly the same processor I have. The only reason I would upgrade is that the compatible motherboards with the socket type 1366 can't get a decent native sata 3 controller, so I'm restricted to sata 2 speeds.
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I've got a 16-port RAID SATA 3 card in mine running RAID 0 with 8 40Gb Kingston SSDs. Let's just say throughput isn't a problem anymore.
 
I forgot to say it's mostly mmos where the graphics card largely does nothing and the cpu largely does everything.
 
I would hang on to the 920, it is solid and can still hold its own. I still got an 940 setup in the other room and its still kicking it.
 
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