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Upgrading: Sandy bridge to Ivy bridge

Iain529

Iain529

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Hi!

So I'm upgrading from a 2600K to a 3770. I'm keeping the same Mother board (MSI Z77A-GD65) and I was just wondering are there any steps I need to take, in the BIOS or in Windows, or can I literally put the new CPU in and then boot up and carry on using my PC like normal?

Cheers!
 
Iain529 said:
Hi!

So I'm upgrading from a 2600K to a 3770. I'm keeping the same Mother board (MSI Z77A-GD65) and I was just wondering are there any steps I need to take, in the BIOS or in Windows, or can I literally put the new CPU in and then boot up and carry on using my PC like normal?

Cheers!
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Aren't you making a sideways move at best M8
 
Weird "upgrade" I have to admit.

But nevertheless make sure your BIOS supports the new CPU. If not do a BIOS update. And before doing that set the BIOS to default settings and then flash it to the newest version. After that just replace the CPU with the new, and boot up then go into BIOS and set the settings to what you had before (ram timings etc). ... and that's it !
 
I don't see it as weird at all. They're better chips and he's not completely changing platforms. If i were in his shoes i'd do the same (though would get the 3770K so i can actually overclock the hell out of it), especially for the awesome IMC.
 
Agreed.

Ok, I went from 2500K to 3770K, so there is a larger difference, but I couldn't be happier.

Don't know why people on here always feel the need to shoot someone down when they make a choice they might not have made themselves....

As for the original question, I would say the same as Jeff6475, jsut clear cmos, even though that itself shouldn't really be necessary.
 
Strange upgrade. Barely even a sidegrade that :confused:

Your money to waste though...

I'll be keeping my 2500k until I can buy something that is an obvious upgrade :)
 
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Agreed.

Ok, I went from 2500K to 3770K, so there is a larger difference, but I couldn't be happier.

Don't know why people on here always feel the need to shoot someone down when they make a choice they might not have made themselves....

As for the original question, I would say the same as Jeff6475, jsut clear cmos, even though that itself shouldn't really be necessary.
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Well if people just state their reason to upgrade then there's nothing to "shoot at".
There is difference going from a 2500K to at 3770K (hyper threading etc), but thread starter has a 2600K and swapping that for a 3770K doesn't give much if any at all. I can't see what the 3770K does which the 2600K doesn't already do ?. Yes 3770 is 22nm and Ivy, but still - performance wise in both gaming, encoding etc they're are close to the same if not nearly identical.

If the argument just is because that he wants to have the latest, then fine by me :)

Sunday I just upgraded from Intel Core i7 870 2.93GHz, Asus P7P55WS SuperComputer to Intel Core i7 3820 3.6GHz, Gigabyte X79UD3. While there is a difference in performance it's not enormous and no way near double the computing performance. I did the upgrade while the "old hardware" would still be worth a little penny.
 
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Not much of an upgrade from 2 nd to 3rd gem, yes ivy does perform better but not a noticeable difference really. However, I upgraded from i5 760 to a 3570k and I'm seeing a difference in bf3 :D but hey that's an upgrade from 1st gen to. 3rd :D
 
You probably wont notice any change at all. In what real world scenario would you realize the 5-10% ish performance increase?

To me, its only worth upgrading your CPU once it starts bottlenecking the GPU. I don't encode or compile, I just watch stuff, play music and play games. Apart from the gaming, the CPU power needed for watching, browsing and playing was reached along time ago.
 
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