Upgrading from a Q9550 to which?

[sybaris]

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?

 

[sybaris]

What can your PC not do at the moment?

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.

 

[sybaris]

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.

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.