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Upgrading to Ivybridge

Dogfood09

Dogfood09

Dogfood09

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Guys,

last month i upgraded my motherboard to the ASUS Maximus V Formula , This month i am looking to upgrade my CPU which is an i5 2500K Sandybridge to the Ivybridge i7 3770K , Do you think this will be a worthy upgrade? I use my rig mainly for gaming , HD content and the occasional video editing/converting , Will i see much of a performance increase? I have also o/c my 2500k to 4.5k on air.

My Specs

Corsair Obsidian 800D Case
XFX Radeon 7970x2 In Xfire
i5 2500K
16gb Kingston RAM 1600mhz
ASUS Maximus V Formula Mobo
Xonar DGX 5.1 PCI-E Soundcard
Corsair SP2500 2.1 Speakers
Corsair Hydro H100 Cooler
120GB Crucial SSD ( System Drive )
Seagate Baracuda 2TB HDD ( Storage )
Seagate Baracude 3TB HHD ( storage )
Dell Ultrasharp U2711 Monitor
XFX 850W PSU
Corsair 1300 Headphones
Razor Death adder 3500dpi 3.5sg Mouse
RazorBlackwidow Mechanical Keyboard
Microsoft HD LifeCam
 
With what you're describing you're not going to see a big difference, although your gfx adapters might benefit from PCI-E 3. Don't get he wrong, there is a difference in performance, but I don't think you'd notice it in reality.
 
Dogfood09 said:
so my rads are not benefitting from the pci-e3 ? although my board is pci e3.0 ?
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No they're not. SB cpu's don't support PCI-E 3 it even though your motherboard does. Once you get an IB processor you'll get your PCI-E 3.

Whether that makes the upgrade worthwhile remains to be seen, depending on the type of gaming you do and the resolutions you run at.
 
Martini1991 said:
Don't honestly think you'll see much in gaming from going Ivy.
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Thats what I largely suspect.

I went from running a 2700K to 3930K (which isn't IB, but a better CPU nonetheless) and in my games I don't notice anything significant at all, but for other things (the stuff thats actually important to me) it's a different matter.

Actually, thats not completely true - I did notice quite a difference in World of Warcraft, especially in 25 man raids. WoW isn't particularly efficient at multi-threading, but it was noticeable.
 
Dirtyganker said:
No they're not. SB cpu's don't support PCI-E 3 it even though your motherboard does. Once you get an IB processor you'll get your PCI-E 3.

Whether that makes the upgrade worthwhile remains to be seen, depending on the type of gaming you do and the resolutions you run at.
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I run all my games at 2560x1440 , play a lot of MW3 and BF3 and most of the recent released games
 
getting ivy will at least give u that feeling its the best/latest... see if u can get sb a lot cheaper then worth it... otherwise not not over the cost anyhow.
 
PCIe 3.0 dosen't make a lick of a difference for the average user, i'm not sure but even with even all the highest end gpus possible added i doubt it'd be any different than 2.0 for now.
 
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