Upgrade advice please
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kalato




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PostPosted: Sat, 25th Jul 2015 21:41    Post subject: Upgrade advice please
Hi all,

Im thinking about upgrading my cpu and board, I have a 3770k overclocked to 4.2ghz, as you well know it's a 3rd gen cpu but is it worth upgrading to a Haswell? I've been looking at those 4870k but any recommendations would be appreciated on a i7 and mobo, all I do is play games and no video editing, I don't think I'm going to wait for skylake as reading around they are only 6% faster than a 4870k so I'm not going to notice any difference, then again will I notice any difference going from a 3770k to a 4870k?

Thanks!
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rgb#000
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PostPosted: Sat, 25th Jul 2015 22:00    Post subject:
wait a month or so and get the new Z170 and 6600K or 6700K
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Guy_Incognito




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PostPosted: Sat, 25th Jul 2015 22:07    Post subject:
Don't upgrade for another two years. I'm srsly.
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Lukxxx




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PostPosted: Sat, 25th Jul 2015 22:32    Post subject:
Guy_Incognito wrote:
Don't upgrade for another two years. I'm srsly.


+1
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8ball




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PostPosted: Sat, 25th Jul 2015 22:35    Post subject:
Focused like was said unless you are seeing your cpu as the bottleneck don't upgrade for a bit
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Breezer_




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PostPosted: Sun, 26th Jul 2015 01:30    Post subject:
Even with old ass sandy bridge CPU these days, you are not CPU bottlenecked in anything. I have another system with 2700K and everything runs pretty much the same as on my main rig which has 4790K.
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couleur
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PostPosted: Sun, 26th Jul 2015 01:36    Post subject:
I suppose you mean 4790K? But even then, imo, its completely useless. You'll be better off just OCing to 4.5Ghz.

If you want a real upgrade you're going to need at least a 5820K, but thats not going to be cheap and its not going to give you that much more FPS in many games, exccept maybe for minFPS. Not worth it. imo.

My advice: Don't upgrade just for Gaming.

I was going to upgrade my 3570K to Skylake but I seriously doubt its going to give me any gaming relevant advantage on 1200p excpet from benchmarks.


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