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Upgrading from a Q9550 to which?

sybaris

sybaris

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I am upgrading from a 9550 this week.
I have been waiting to see what the 4770's are like and need your advice.
The choice is between the i7 3770 or the 4770.
Which ever I go for, I will keep the CPU for 4 years.
By the time I next upgrade, the tech will have changed again and I will start building a new rig from scratch at that point.

What would you go for?
 
If it was between the two, you may as well get a 4770k (k version so you can overclock) since the 3770k is the same price as the 4770k so may as well get the newer gen. Unless you are willing to buy second hand, in which case you could get a 3770k cheaper.
 
sybaris said:
ITs 6 or 7 years old, its getting slow, I need more storage and can't add a grater than a 2gb drive, all my bays are full. I have no blue ray. Its time to build a new one.
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Have you overclocked it? Even slightly?

Why can you not add a greater than 2gb(tb?) drive? That doesn't sound right at all!

Blu-ray is simply a SATA drive. You can get Sata ports very cheaply. Hell you could splash out on a lovely LGA775 motherboard for next to nothing.


Obviously if you want a new pc you want a new pc, but I'd hold fire for just a bit longer.
 
I am making the same upgrade, my initial thoughts were towards that direction. Since I mostly play games I have since decided that a 3570k would be better especially if clocks nice and high.
 
Just remember to budget for a good GPU as games are rarely CPU bound (think RTS game are one of the exceptions)


New Haswell or second hand Ivy (both K variants) would be my choices.
 
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sports_brah said:
Have you overclocked it? Even slightly?

Why can you not add a greater than 2gb(tb?) drive? That doesn't sound right at all!

Blu-ray is simply a SATA drive. You can get Sata ports very cheaply. Hell you could splash out on a lovely LGA775 motherboard for next to nothing.


Obviously if you want a new pc you want a new pc, but I'd hold fire for just a bit longer.
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Yes its clocked to 3.4ghz.
The mobo will only see up to 2ghz on this antiquanted board.

Would like something that processes that much faster. Football manager is soooo slow now, especially with 3 or 4 countries enabled.
 
I've just gone from a Q9550 clocked at 3.8ghz to a Fx-8350 and couldn't be happier. 4.9ghz on all 8 cores and my fps has improved massively in games but that might be down to my new motherboard also.
 
1uke said:
I've just gone from a Q9550 clocked at 3.8ghz to a Fx-8350 and couldn't be happier. 4.9ghz on all 8 cores and my fps has improved massively in games but that might be down to my new motherboard also.
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Yup motherboard/architecture definitely plays it's role in performance
 
I am in the same situation here. Looking for something to replace my Q9550 system.

Was holding out for Haswell, but to be honest I am disappointed with what I read about it.

Not really impressed with what in my opinion is a budget general purpose desktop CPU with integrated graphics being sold at inflated prices due to it benching better than expected. It seems there's little improvement from Intel for OC enthusiasts, if you look back and compare pre 2500K up until the 4770K.

Saving power and integrated graphics should be optional. Sandy bridge seems interesting, but due updates, and is expensive. And no one takes notice of AMD.
 
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