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Upgrade or not?

Greebo

Greebo

Greebo

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I ahve an i7 950 running at 4.2Ghz 24/7 (4.65Ghz max)

I fancy an upgrade. Why u say?

Faster cpu
sata 3
Maybe better pcie speed

So if I upgrade what's worth it?

I;m not up to speed with ivybridge etc.

So cpu? an i7 again? which one? 1155 of the other socket type? Or just an i5 (no HT????) Or a 6 core???

With or without built in gpu?

I really am out of touch with latest stuff. Would anything be woth an upgrade at all? I will be watercooling btw.
 
I wouldn't update now if l were you unless l felt that my CPU was bottlenecking my GPU. The current socket 1155 won't support any future processors so you will be buying something with no upgrade path. I would wait for 2013 and Haswell.
 
Hmmm, I think it's just the upgrade itch hitting me.

Current spec is an i7-950 running at 4.2Ghz, 6Gb ram, Gigabyte UD7 mobo, samsung ssd 240gb, a few TB's of other drives, Sapphire 7970 running at 1250/1700. All watercooled with custom watercooling loops.

I have seen things which show I might expect some performance boosts in fps in some games plus the obvious encoding gains.
 
I would hang on to your current system, for gaming I don't think there is anything that would give you a significant increase in fps over what you have now.

If you were to upgrade to an i7 3930k it would give you an improvement in video encoding but for gaming it would not be much different to your i7 950.
 
i would stay with what you have or maybe sell and upgrade if you can get good money for your bits

your rig isnt slow by any standards but if you can get good money for it now the extra outlay offset by your components you have now may make it worth it.

bf3 you wont notice a difference by the way no matter what cpu you goto ;)
 
Id stay with what you have. Made the switch from an i7 920 @4.2ghz, 12gb of ram to the spec in sig. A sidegrade at best as it's no different in games whatsoever. I still have an i7 930 based rig, and if i put my graphics card in it, in a hidden test with games i wouldnt know which rig im using.
 
Resist the urge, resist the urge. Haswell will hopefully be something worth moving to. Only problem is though, your current kits value will continue to decrease. I got very little selling my 920, ram and p6t deluxe v2 board a few months ago.
 
thing is games are mainly done for consoles now forget the arguing its the truth so you wont notice that much unless very cpu game intensive anway.

some game are true like setter says but for eg in skyrim i noticed nearly double the fps ! also in a few other games like arma 2 which is very cpu intensive game (arma 3 and dayz standalone aswell not too long ;) ) so just really depends on what you play ?

i did my upgrade mainly for the games i highlighted not for older ones.

also bf3 doesnt really do any better .

your rig is fine anyway and new consoles arnt out for a year yet (this will push games for a bit when they out ) so id wait till this time next year and access then
 
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