worth upgrading from a sabertooth p67 to z77?

squarehead94 · 28 Apr 2012 at 18:15

hey all,
just wondering, ive been offered 110 for my sabertooth p67 and 4gb corsair dominators. im wondering, is it worth selling these, and getting a z77 board and 8gb corsair vengeance? that would only cost me around £30-40 to upgrade, but is it REALLY worth it? ill probably be keeping my 2500k for a while...
thanks
stephen

beejjacobs · 28 Apr 2012 at 18:17

If you want to, it'll give you support for the integrated graphics, and an extra 4GB of RAM is always helpful.

Considering 8GB of RAM could cost about that much, doesn't seem too bad!

squarehead94 · 28 Apr 2012 at 18:20

i needn't worry about integrated graphics, i run 2x5770 in xfire lol.
the board has an update to support ivy bridge though, thats all that bothers me, whether it is really worth it.

beejjacobs · 28 Apr 2012 at 18:22

Integrated graphics is useful if you have an issue with your graphics card or something. If you don't think you'll use it, it's probably not worth it. Just get 8GB of RAM.

squarehead94 · 28 Apr 2012 at 18:24

i always like to have new stuff, and people on here seem to say oh you couldve got a newer z68/z77 board... and i hear the asrock extreme6 is a great OCer... but im running a sandy bridge chip anyways :S im in a real pickle here lol

beejjacobs · 28 Apr 2012 at 18:35

squarehead94 said:
i always like to have new stuff, and people on here seem to say oh you couldve got a newer z68/z77 board... and i hear the asrock extreme6 is a great OCer... but im running a sandy bridge chip anyways :S im in a real pickle here lol

If it were me I'd prefer an Asus board over Asrock... Your decision! If you fancy a change, not a bad idea

Tattysnuc · 29 Apr 2012 at 11:38

The next chipsets released are very probably not going to be Socket 1155 if Intel are anything to go by, so I'd ask you what are you likely to get most benefit from over the products lifetime?

If the board is on EVERY day ALL day, then a few watts can be saved by moving to Z77 over P67.

Z77 does not appear to overclock any further than P67

Z77 does not allow you to run a newer faster processor - most P67 boards run them fine.

Most Users don't make use of much more than 4Gb of ram in day to day gaming and browsing.

You have 2 GPU's so integrated graphics don;t offer any tangible benefit - if one of your cards fails, you've still got the second one!

Personally, I'd look at an SSD if you haven't already got one, before anything else as that'll give you the most noticeable improvement.