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I've been out of the loop since I built my i7 860 rig a couple of years ago. I'm just wondering how it holds up against present offerings. Should I be looking to upgrade or wait?
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Okay, thanks guys! The consensus seems to be that I should hold on to this build for the time being. I've been running my 860 at a decent 3.8Ghz overclock since I first put it together, and I've not felt a personal need to upgrade; it's just that whole not-wanting-to-far-too-far-behind-so-I-can-maintain-my-geek-cred thing . . . lol.
It does seem that higher end components are maintaining their viability for a good deal longer these days.
I have been going back and forth on getting a SSD or two. The thing is, I'm limited to SATA II. I thought I might wait until my next system build with SATA III. Right now I'm running two WD Blacks in RAID 0, so things are fairly snappy on the hard drive front.I traded out the 860's little brother the i5-750 for a sandy bridge rig purely to use quicksync. Other than that I notice zero difference between the two. I might have gained 2fps or something in games but nothing noticeable.
Keep your 860. It's good for another generation.
If you don't have an SSD that should be your next upgrade.
Sata II won't make a difference. Everyone shits themselves over big sustained transfer numbers but it's the access times that make an SSD really shine.
Get the SSD. Your "black" hard drives ain't got shit on any modern SSD.