Worth continuing with my i7 920?

[easyrider]

The only way in perception over a 4ghz 920 running the latest and greatest is in benchies and encoding tasks. Or photoshop rendering. Even then we are talking very little in terms of a 4 year gap in tech.

In games I would argue that a 920 @ 4ghz and the latest chip at the same speed with the same GPU would not be noticeable on a blind test.

 

[Typhoon]

Got my Samsung 250Gig SSD and copy of 8.1 today. Not fitted it yet - draining and refilling my loops first. I am going to at new GPU after Xmas and stick it out for a few more years. Then build a new rig from scratch. I used to upgrade every 18 months or so but have slowed down.

 

[ratters]

The biggest reason why people "feel" a new build is faster or smoother in non-taxing stuff is generally as it is a clean install of the OS and usually a new HDD/SSD. Honestly speaking, my Q6700 feels just as fast opening normal applications as does my 8320 as does my 3930k. Even my 7 year old Lenovo V100 laptop with an SSD feels nippy.

For assessing real performance differences, you need to bench. Of course the 4770k will have a higher IPC and in CPU intensive games (e.g. MMOs) you will probably notice. In more GPU-bound games, I doubt it.

I tottally agree with what you just said but i had just done a new build because of windows 8 Before my upgrade.

But it also helps that my 4770k is running 800mhz more than my 920 it wasn't a good clocker at all.

 

[MooMoo444]

Building my new 4770k setup this weekend. I'm honestly not expecting it to feel any different in general use but I'm hoping for better performance in really CPU intensive games such as Civ V.

Sometimes it takes a few minutes to process a turn on a big map with a lot of players.

 

[Dave2150]

I have been wanting to upgrade my [email protected] for a some time now (mainly to have something new to play with). I also run 2x 7970's with it and it runs BF4 so well still. Amazing cpu and longest I have ever kept. It is a true gem.

I'm thinking of holding off till the intel 9 series chipsets come out (haswell refresh) then I can also do broadwell if I want.

That seems the sensible option I think.

Same here.

Had my i7 920 setup since december 2008, still going strong. Really want to hold out for a huge upgrade, may as well wait for ddr4 at the same time.

 

[OLDPHART]

Same here.

Had my i7 920 setup since december 2008, still going strong. Really want to hold out for a huge upgrade, may as well wait for ddr4 at the same time.

+2 way to go, one son has my 920 and this one my 930 will go to the other, waste not want not.

 

[sk3lph]

Still rocking with my 920 on sli Titans and I'm holding off on an upgrade. We'll see what Haswell-E brings to he table next year.

 

[AWPC]

Hold off upgrading for now Intel are obviously holding back their newist tech most CPU's are Core i7 variants still from the original 2008 965XE monster (which I bought @ launch at its still going strong for me pointless to upgrade for a few % extra speed).

As AMD are no realistic competition Intel have for almost 10 years tick tocked minimal upgrades with little gain unless you must buy a new CPU wait for the next platform you really want to see a massive gain to make it worthwhile outside of synthetic benchmarks & stupid FPS figures you would notice little difference in everyday useage between any Intel Core i7 from the last 5 years TBH

 

[MooMoo444]

Building my new 4770k setup this weekend. I'm honestly not expecting it to feel any different in general use but I'm hoping for better performance in really CPU intensive games such as Civ V.

Sometimes it takes a few minutes to process a turn on a big map with a lot of players.

Got this up and running on Saturday. Probably some placebo (I'm not totally naive!) but it does feel noticeably faster and smoother when gaming compared to my 4.2 920.

Minimum frame rates seem to be a lot better than they were.

I'd recommend (if you can get an affordable upgrade - I saved £100's by buying from MM than new)

 

[vintage-x]

I just upgraded from an i7 920 to a 4770k. The reason I upgraded is because of the platform. I wanted true sata 3 and USB 3 rather than something from a different chipset wich I used to have all sorts of driver problems with. Also it boots a lot faster and my minimum frame rates have increased slightly

 

[Nasher]

I'm in a similar situation with a 2600k, which is running at 4.6ghz. There just isn't really an upgrade worth spending money on. So far I've gone through 3 graphics cards since buying it

 

[InfiniteNoise]

I'm still running with i7-870, does everything I want it to without any problems, I'll probably keep it for another 2 or 3 years.

 

[krnsniper]

Here is a CPU Hierarcy chart which shows that your CPU is still 3rd from the best for gaming so I'd recommend you keep it until Skylake is out and upgrade which you will notice a bigger improvement than I7 920.

 

[almighty15]

Stick to your 920 but avoid the 770's...

Get a Nvidia 780 and clock it.... Got a custom BIOS on mine and boy does it fly....

 

[Bart_Hunt]

Why is there no haswell on that chart?

 

[krnsniper]

Why is there no haswell on that chart?

here you go:

 

[OLDPHART]

Because its not cool, Haswell should have been renamed Hades.

 

[esoteric]

Skyline is due out Q4 2015 isn't it? or Q1 2016. Long time to wait.

 

[humbug]

Still rocking an i7 930 and see no reason to get a new one, its playing all those CPU intensive games very well, a new i7 isn't much better. stick with it and get the GPU.

 

[MattBrisbane]

I'm still running my I7 920; what an amazing chip - gone are the days of having to replace a CPU every few years. That said, I am now looking at a new build. If only there was another SR-2 Xeon type remake...