When to upgrade?

V1sual

V1sual

V1sual

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I am running a Phenom II x4 920 @ 3.7 Ghz with Asus M3N72-D mobo and some DDR2 800 ram.

I cant decide when to upgrade basically.
I have now put in a a samsung 840 pro 256 SSD which is running around 200 MB/s so less than half of its capability. Also dropped in a GTX 680 Twin Frozr recently but it never gets pushed.

I mean it can play games reasonably but I know I could push the SDD and GPU much more.

I am thinking about the I5 4670K with a top end mobo and ram but not sure if to wait until the Haswell refresh in Q3 for the K series or not.

Just not sure if to hold out for something else or go ahead and blow ~£500 now, opinions please.
 
Appearently DDR4 is on the horizon, but apart from that there nothing to wait for really.

Your SSD is running at 'half speed' due to your motherboard being SATAII not SATAIII..

Your CPU will certainly bottlenecking you're GPU too..
 
The performance difference of the next cpu's is unlikely to be particularly big and you can make some real gains by upgrading now. Ultimately there is always something round the corner and if you wait you will never upgrade. A new CPU and much faster RAM will have a big change and the fact that the rest of your hardware will be able to run at full capacity you are unlikely to be disappointed :)

That's how I would look at it anyway :)
 
Yeah I remember reading about the DDR4 hmmmmmm.
Yeah I found out the sata 2 was the issue and no way to upgrade to sata 3 with the current CPU. CPU is much better than it was taking it from 2.8 to 3.7, just a shame I cannot get a decent sata 3 board for it.

So if we go with the 4670K which high end mobo and ram would be suggested, I have not yet had the opportunity to do my research on these yet; rig used purely for gaming.

The PSU I have is the Corsair AX 860 and the Cooler Master HAF 932 full tower case so plenty of room for large mobos.
 
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