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Worth upgrading?

So I have three choices really, if I was going to upgrade, upgrade the processor, upgrade the processor, mobo and ram with AMD bits (seems a bit silly to do this though from what I can see, especially with bulldozer nearly here), or go Sandybridge.

If I was to upgrade and go Sandybridge, does anyone have any recommendations? I would literally just need Mobo/Processor/Ram and cooler, everything else is covered, and would be in the following case:

http://www.silverstonetek.com/product.php?pid=94&area=en

Which is obviously a big bugger, so could probably fit just about anything.
 
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Gone for the Venom cooler as I was unsure if the Silver Arrow would fit in that case. It's still a pretty decent cooler and will be fine for high overclocks.

You can change the RAM to 8gb if you wish, if you do go for this set: http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MY-094-KS
 
The £500 is on top of the SSD by the way, if that helps ;)

I dunno, I'm just umming and ahhing now, would I see that much of a performance increase between just upgrading the processor and over to SandyBridge? Theoretically I'd be spending ~£200 on new processor and cooling, probably less than that by the looks of it, against £500ish. Would I really be getting £300 worth of performance increase?
 
Thanks for that Benching page its made me realise that for gaming at least its not worth upgrading my q6600 to a hexcore amd. With both chips at stock the hexcore only gets about 10 fps extra per game. Considering I can run my q6600 at 1.2Ghz above stock safely at 3.6ghz and most hexcores don't OC as well as that, usually 1Ghz over stock to 3.8-4ghz. I realise that I would be gaining 2 cores but may as well stick with what I have for now. Hopefully Bulldozer will offer a decent 6 or 8 core chip in the £150 bracket so I can gain cores and speed. The wait is killing me as I have the cash now arghhh.
 
And now they drop the price on the SSD... Guess that means more money to spend!

So if I go with the 2500k, is it worth getting an MSi Mobo for the ocgenie feature, seeing as I wont be doing any overclocking? Or is there a significantly better offering/alternative? My Mobo's in the past have been Asus/Gigabytes generally.
 
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