Anyone upgraded from I5 750/760 to 2600K?

Well if you can sell your stuff off and use it to buy the new setup I'm not sure why it wouldnt be worth it. The benchmarks showed some pretty nice increases over the 750's. Though with all the issues right now with the new chipsets its best to wait that out.
 
just did a 760 myself overclocked to 3.5 plays all of my stuff perfectly. now with the sata issues coming out, i'm glad i went ahead with 1156. i'm sure sandy is better and all, but i would not be happy waiting for an rma repair on a new system that was just built.
 
I was wondering this too. I decided against it, because I use my system for gaming. I have my i5 750 at 4 ghz and I would have no improvement by going to Sandy Bridge.
 
if you still have the 775 and don't want to change the platform, go get the Q9650 E0 and overclock them to 4Ghz and get some good quality VGA. That would be on par when you change you change platform to 1366, as it maxed out on normal cooling on 4Ghz either. Plus it has the 12MB cache with the 1366 procs don't have.

I change mine from Q6600@3,6Ghz to i7 920@4 Ghz, the change is noticable, but I have to spend money which I think its not worth the change. But I'm happy for its temp, as it is cooler on the 1366 than the 775
 
ChocoFish said:
Is it worth it?
I am seeing mostly people with 775 chipsets upgrading to 1155.
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I went from a Core i7 920 running at 3.6GHz to a 2600k running at 4.6GHz. Why? x264 encoding. My average 1080p encodes would take about 3.5 hours per feature length movie. With my new setup, average time is 2 hours flat. A massive 1.5 hour decrease per movie. That's a huge difference, but for anyone not doing 2-pass x264 encodes, the difference from past platforms to Sandy Bridge would probably be minimal.
 
I don't think it's worth to upgrade from E8400 to 2500K. Sandy Bridge is faster but not as twice faster. You can get used E8400 cpu, mobo, and ram for $170 but for 2500K, it's about $360. The price gap is there for sure. Of course going from Q9550 to 2500K is a different story since cpu prices are similar.
 
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