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Upgrade from Q9550, recommand?
- Thread starter KHALIK
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The 4770K is the best bet at the moment. Though I've never really felt my old Q9550 was letting me down and wouldn't be a in tearing hurry to upgrade unless I was spending a lot of time doing stuff that was a lot better on a newer CPU as a lot of stuff isn't massively faster overall.
I had a 3770K briefly before this 4820K and went back to the Q9550 as I didn't feel it was money well spent (though I did sell it on to a friend at a fair loss heh).
I had a 3770K briefly before this 4820K and went back to the Q9550 as I didn't feel it was money well spent (though I did sell it on to a friend at a fair loss heh).
Yeap, hence why I decided not to go for a bundle offers;
Intel Core i7-4770K 3.50GHz (Haswell) Socket LGA1150 Processor - Retail
Gigabyte G1.Sniper Z87 Intel Z87 (Socket 1150) DDR3 ATX Motherboard
MEMEORY
Case does not have a Window panel, no need for fancy lighting memory sticks. What is a suiable memory do you recommand?
current motherboard : DFI LANPARTY LT X48-T3RS
Intel Core i7-4770K 3.50GHz (Haswell) Socket LGA1150 Processor - Retail
Gigabyte G1.Sniper Z87 Intel Z87 (Socket 1150) DDR3 ATX Motherboard
MEMEORY
Case does not have a Window panel, no need for fancy lighting memory sticks. What is a suiable memory do you recommand?
current motherboard : DFI LANPARTY LT X48-T3RS
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My rule of thumb for i7 platforms is to try and shoot for RAM than will do CL9 @ 2133MHz as this gives you the best overall performance and/or anything above that gives such tiny performance gains its not worth the money unless your doing something highly specific.
Often this means researching kits that will do CL9 as most 2133 kits are rated for CL10/11 and/or if theres not a big price premium buying 2400 kits. Anything over 1600MHz with decent timings is diminishing gains anyhow.
I usually look at the Corsair Vengeance or Kingston HyperX kits but other people have had good results with Team Group, etc.
Often this means researching kits that will do CL9 as most 2133 kits are rated for CL10/11 and/or if theres not a big price premium buying 2400 kits. Anything over 1600MHz with decent timings is diminishing gains anyhow.
I usually look at the Corsair Vengeance or Kingston HyperX kits but other people have had good results with Team Group, etc.
I've always used Kingston HyperX Beast and Genesis kits for DDR3 myself but theres no guarantee any kit will run those timings - end of the day anything from 1600-3000MHz will be within single digit percent performance difference for most stuff unless your running a 8 core / 16 thread or higher CPU.