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Oddmaker
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PostPosted: Mon, 25th Feb 2013 20:16    Post subject: Help from Humpers on Build
Elloooo all

I have a i5 760 1156 running at 4GHz but wouldnt mind upgrading to a i7 1155 but what do you fellow humpers think? 1156 is pretty old now so I want to join the 1155 club but is it worth upgrading to an i7 or just stick with a i5? maybe 2500k? if I upgrade?

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couleur
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PostPosted: Mon, 25th Feb 2013 20:30    Post subject:
More info would be nice. Smile

Whats your budget?

What are you going to use it for?


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PostPosted: Mon, 25th Feb 2013 20:33    Post subject:
Sorry, converting movies, playing games. Budget will probably be about £300 maybe £350.


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PostPosted: Mon, 25th Feb 2013 20:52    Post subject:
Depending on the application you use for converting video, you will get up to a 25% increase in performance, if you OC the Sandy/Ivy to 4Ghz. Both go pretty easily up to 4.5Ghz, the Sandy-Bridge even further. So you should get some nice increase in performance here and there.

If you are on a budget, you should get a 2500K, if not the 3570K is nice aswell and has a few extra features PCIe 3.0, Lucid virtu, (nothing really that valuable though).

If your video conversion tools profit from > 4 threads, I'd recommend the i7 2700K.

Hyper-threading is only really useful in those situations. Otherwise it is negligible, especially for the price.

Then again. Haswell is around the corner, and its not like the i5 760 @ 4Ghz is really that slow (at least not from my personal perspective), you could just hold on to it a few month more and just see what Haswell really gives.


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PostPosted: Mon, 25th Feb 2013 20:55    Post subject:
I'm still on an i5-760 too (4.2 should be easily doable btw, mine does that without a hitch) and I see no reason to upgrade. Games don't get bottlenecked by it (yet) and besides that, most other applications can barely use all 4 cores at this speed anyway.
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PostPosted: Wed, 27th Feb 2013 19:56    Post subject:
Cheers!


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