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upgrade from i7

ard-tullaich

ard-tullaich

ard-tullaich

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Hi been away from building for a while now and i think its time for an upgrade.
Currantly running i7 920 at 4gb with 12 gig of ram on a gigabyte a58 board.
Kepping my tri ati 6970 and corsair 1200w power supply and haf x case with a asus xonar d2x sound card.
Is it worth me upgrading and what to go for to see a differance?
What cpu ,motherboard and ram would you recomend?
 
not realy but my wifes pc is getting on a bit and she allways gets my hand mi downs.
some times i think it should be running better in new games and i just upgraded my camera which is now a 5d mk3 so the files are lot larger to work with.
I just thought its a few years old now and xmas is coming so i thought this year a pc upgrade. Plus usb 3 and upgrade my ssd to a 500mb/read write one
 
Hi ard-tullaich

I used to have an i7 920, and then upgraded to the 2500k. There is no noticeable difference to be honest, but in benchmarks there is quite a difference and also new games now such as Battlefield 4 make use of the extra cpu power.

If I was you id get a i7 4770k, Gigabyte Z87X d4h/ud4h, cheap £70 8GB DDr3 ram kit.

The unfortunate/fortunate thing, depending on how you look at it, is that the difference from a i7 2600k to 3770k to 4770k ( three new cpus from Intel) is not that great, and the biggest jump in performance came from going from an i7 920 to a 2600k. So if you do buy a 4770k or any of the other i7s you wont need to upgrade for a long time.

hope this helps
 
I went from an i7 920 to a 3770k, and to be honest the difference wasn't massively noticeable. You'd probably be able to tell if they were running side by side, but after rebuilding it's hard to tell.

Going to a 4770k would likely last you a fair while, but I doubt it'd knock your socks off.
 
Its also nice to be able to overclock to 5ghz easily on the ivy and sandy cpus, as apposed to those i7 920s which mostly were lucky to get to 4ghz.
 
kaku said:
I went from an i7 920 to a 3770k, and to be honest the difference wasn't massively noticeable. You'd probably be able to tell if they were running side by side, but after rebuilding it's hard to tell.
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You wouldn't notice much difference if you were only using a single GPU card. OP on the other hand got a CF6990+6970.
 
Marine-RX179 said:
You wouldn't notice much difference if you were only using a single GPU card. OP on the other hand got a CF6990+6970.
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Well part of the problem was that I went from 920 + 1x6970 to a 3770k + 2xGTX670. With a jump like that it's kind of difficult to tell which is which.

In 'everyday computing' tasks like zipping/unzipping files, encoding small videos and such I didn't notice a huge difference; but I do things like that so infrequently that it's likely the ~10 or so seconds saving is lost on me.
 
I went from an i7 920 @4GHz to i7 4770K @4.7GHz and to be honest there wasn't a huge difference but minimum fps have certainly improved. Most games are smoother particularly those which are cpu bound like BF3 and FSX. Your milage may vary and improvements likely to be more noticeable given you have 3 cards.
 
Well these are all games I play in the replys so maybe it would be worth an upgrade. What about going for a used 990x CPU would that be a route to go down. What about the 4930k?
 
ard-tullaich said:
Well these are all games I play in the replys so maybe it would be worth an upgrade. What about going for a used 990x CPU would that be a route to go down. What about the 4930k?
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Hi, A used 990X will likely cost more than a 3770k or 4770k, both of which beat a 990X in just about everything.
 
Nip and tuck, the 4770K just has the edge overall, at up to two GPU's. Don't remember seeing any reviews with 3 GPU's. Couldn't go wrong with either. I went with a 4930K, because I could :P
 
$ilent said:
Its also nice to be able to overclock to 5ghz easily on the ivy and sandy cpus, as apposed to those i7 920s which mostly were lucky to get to 4ghz.
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5Ghz isnt easily achieved on Ivy (on Sandy it was easier but still not guaranteed).
 
stephenb said:
Nip and tuck, the 4770K just has the edge overall, at up to two GPU's. Don't remember seeing any reviews with 3 GPU's. Couldn't go wrong with either. I went with a 4930K, because I could :P
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I think the only reason a 4770k beats a 4930K is because the 4930k is only clocked at 3.4ghz, whereas the 4770k is at 3.5ghz.

Sayso said:
5Ghz isnt easily achieved on Ivy (on Sandy it was easier but still not guaranteed).
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Oh yeahhh :P

But what I mean is that it is more common to see people hitting 5ghz on ivy and sandy as apposed to on the i7 920 where 5ghz is pretty much impossible without LN2.
 
stephenb said:
Nip and tuck, the 4770K just has the edge overall, at up to two GPU's. Don't remember seeing any reviews with 3 GPU's. Couldn't go wrong with either. I went with a 4930K, because I could :P
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It won't in two years time, the 4930k will win easy.
 
I'm in the same position with a i7 930 @ 4Ghz. I'm going to wait to see what Broadwell brings next year I think.

On the bright side, yay i7 for being possibly my longest serving proc ever!
 
I'd aim for a Sandy Bridge if you can do without PCI-E 3.0, a minimum of 4.5ghz is practically guaranteed and you won't have the same temperature problems associated with Ivy/Haswell.

SB-E/IB-E are much better temperature-wise as they used solder like with Sandy Bridge.
 
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