Will I see a performance increase?

Messiah Khan · 29 Nov 2012 at 15:04

Between my old rig;

Asus P5B Deluxe
E6400@ 3.8Ghz
7900GS
2 GB OCZ
X-fi music
v2000+II
36Gb Raptor
250Gb WD
250Gb WD
80Gb Seagate
6x Smartdrive 2002c enclosures
Samsung S183A SATA DVD-RW
Tagan 580W Easycon

And my new upgraded rig;

Asus P8P67 Pro R3 Motherboard
Intel i7 3770K
16GB Kingston HyperX Predator 1866MHz
X-fi music
Lian Li PC-7HX
OCZ Vertex 4 128gb
WD Black 1TB FALS
WD Black 1TB FALS
Samsung S183A SATA DVD-RW
Tagan 580W Easycon

Still not decided on GPU, but will probably get something like a second hand GTX580 as keeping my old card would not be fair on the rest of the system. Can't wait to get all the parts and get it running.

The main purpose of the rig is as an image/video editing workstation. But I am also tempted to try some games on it as well. I used to love space games, rpgs & Rome Total war. As I have not played any games for years, what have I been missing that would be a good test?

olivier renault · 29 Nov 2012 at 15:48

get a Z77 board with IvyBridge (or else might as well just get a 2700K).

Aand in a weird way, your onboard graphics might be better than your old 7900GS

As for games? Skyrim is the obvious eye candy game (only if you get a decent graphics card), else, X-Com? Torchlight II?

Messiah Khan · 29 Nov 2012 at 17:00

olivier renault said:
get a Z77 board with IvyBridge (or else might as well just get a 2700K).

Aand in a weird way, your onboard graphics might be better than your old 7900GS

As for games? Skyrim is the obvious eye candy game (only if you get a decent graphics card), else, X-Com? Torchlight II?

No can do on the Z77 as I've already bought most of the parts from MM.

Yeah, Skyrim is one that I wouldn't mind trying, although I have a feeling I might get addicted, as I did with the rest of the Elderscrolls series (all the way back to Daggerfall)!

jasonchildss · 29 Nov 2012 at 17:02

I would suggest getting a refund on the motherboard and buying a Z77 instead..

Addicted · 29 Nov 2012 at 17:04

^ I can echo the above, you really need to go Z77!

Randomface74 · 29 Nov 2012 at 17:05

thread is worse than old rig

Messiah Khan · 29 Nov 2012 at 17:18

Addicted said:
^ I can echo the above, you really need to go Z77!

Why is Z77 so much better?

billysielu said:
thread is worse than old rig

Comment is worse than thread.

areksnumbr1sxylady · 29 Nov 2012 at 17:28

Check if that mobo even supports ivy, P67 is quite old and may require a bios update prior to supporting ivy.

3770K should really go togher with Z77.

580 is a power hungry card, would 580W be enough for it??

I`d personally go with radeon 7850 or 7870. They are under 200 quid.

Messiah Khan · 29 Nov 2012 at 18:18

Lazder said:
Check if that mobo even supports ivy, P67 is quite old and may require a bios update prior to supporting ivy.

3770K should really go togher with Z77.

580 is a power hungry card, would 580W be enough for it??

I`d personally go with radeon 7850 or 7870. They are under 200 quid.

Can confirm that my B3 P8P67 Pro runs 3770K Ivy Bridge with no problems. Full overclocking is available with the latest bios.

That's from another user on the forum. Originally I wasn't going to make such a big upgrade, but I got everything for a good price. Once I sell some parts out of the old computer the whole upgrade will have cost me about £400

Yeah, the PSU might need an upgrade if I do go for a new, decent GPU. I'm sure I have a 700W Tagan somewhere. I was going to go for the 580 as I've always been an Nvidia user, but can be converted if the mid range cards are better. £200 would be absolute max for the GPU, would rather have it closer to £100-£150.