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Upgrading from an i5-2500K 3.30GHz

ChetzB

ChetzB

ChetzB

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Hi all, I wanted to find out if there would be any significant benefit to upgrading from my current i5-2500K 3.30GHz CPU to an i7-3770K 3.50Ghz CPU?

More so, I wasn't too sure if my motherboard would be able to take it. If anyone could shed some light on this, I would greatly appreciate it.

Current motherboard: Gigabyte GA-Z68X-UD3P-B3 Rev 1.0 Socket 1155 (SN111700032104)
 
I had to flash the BIOS on my MSI P67A-GD65 mobo for it work with IvyBridge. I moved from a 2500k to a 3770K. I definitely noticed the different. I also upgraded to a 290 from a 6950 at the same time.
 
NoNameNoNumber said:
Your board will be fine. Depending on what you use it for may well see decent gains but if you are only using 4 threads I wouldn't bother.
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I would mainly be using it for video recording/rendering and playing some games like Battlefield and possibly Titanfall, etc.
 
Beerbaron said:
I had to flash the BIOS on my MSI P67A-GD65 mobo for it work with IvyBridge. I moved from a 2500k to a 3770K. I definitely noticed the different. I also upgraded to a 290 from a 6950 at the same time.
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BIOS is up to date, from what I've used with the Gigabyte BIOS utility. I might be upgrading to a 280X from a MSI 7850. Just waiting for the bonus pay to come in :)
 
I just moved from a 2500K @4.4GHz to a 4770K @4.4GHz using the same graphics card (overclocked 7950 Boost) in both. My gaming time is spent mostly with Skyrim and while the FPS hasn't seen massive increases (it shouldn't) I can now use some very heavy duty mods that would have brought the 2500K to it's knees (Immersive patrols for one). The main reason I wanted to upgrade though was 3D rendering and the speed increases here are massive, it's over 50% faster and when render times are measured in hours that makes a lot of difference. So in my case moving up to an i7 was well worth it, though the move from Sandybridge to Ivybridge wouldn't be quite as big a jump you will still see some major speed increases.
 
This sounds like a huge waste of money. Overclock your current CPU. It's a K series so it's built for OC'ing... a bit of a waste of the extra cost if you don't OC it.

Edge cases will see a large improvement - i.e. anything where there are specific improvements in the architecture for that exact task but in gaming and pretty much anything that matters to 99% of users, the differences are minimal and it's really not worth spending the money upgrading.

Moving from a non-HT CPU to one with HT will also see an improvement in some multithreaded apps of course.
 
FrenchTart said:
This sounds like a huge waste of money. Overclock your current CPU. It's a K series so it's built for OC'ing... a bit of a waste of the extra cost if you don't OC it.

Edge cases will see a large improvement - i.e. anything where there are specific improvements in the architecture for that exact task but in gaming and pretty much anything that matters to 99% of users, the differences are minimal and it's really not worth spending the money upgrading.

Moving from a non-HT CPU to one with HT will also see an improvement in some multithreaded apps of course.
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Exactly this.
 
For the gaming side, you'd be better off swapping your 7850 if anything.
That said, I'm running a 6870 which is just behind the 7850 and it runs pretty much anything I throw at it (Crysis 3 is an exception at when upping the graphical options to high+). Sure, there are times when I notice a frame drop when guns-a-blazing and theres a lot going on at once, but imo it doesn't hamper the gaming experience...

I'm also running the Sandybridge 2500K and like most others I have it clocked at 4.5ghz with a slight tweak to the vcore and decent air cooling. Going from stock to current OC I did notice an improvement in game at higher graphical settings.
 
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