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Intel Question

fightingfi

fightingfi

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im running a i5 2500k stock. I can upgrade to teh i7 3770k for 230 bucks new and id be all set for a while. New haswells coming out and could go i5 4670k but would need a new motherboard and then possibly ram as well and then have to spend more money. What would you guys do? tankies in advanced ;)
 
What are you doing with your rig? Surfing the web? Gaming? Video editing?

I would skip IB at this point personally, especially considering the temperature/lack of solder issue. This is coming from the owner of multiple 3770k rigs. But I guess it doesn't really matter for you if you're sitting at stock.

What kind of cooler do you have? Have you considered some overclocking for free / the cost of a cheap cooler instead of fully upgrading? You can squeeze another ~20% performance out of your chip, which would put it around Haswell levels of performance (for gaming) for free.

$230 is cheap, but that's half the cost of swapping to Haswell already.
 
Not worth the upgrade to IB, keep ur rig and OC it you still will have enough horsepower for long long time... Im on sandy i7 2600 and i'll skip IB, haswell and broadwell.. Keeping my chip to 4.2ghz its more than enough power to handle games for a long time until skylake....
 
Ive never overclocked anything before. its always been stock. My case is teh antec 1200 7 fans all 120's in there including side for gpu(670). my heatsink is fan is teh cooler master http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16835103057

ive got high profile ram as why i went this way.
seasonic oem 850 watt psu if that helps you to help meh out.
windows 7 64 bit ultimate sp1
Tankies in advanced
 
By upgrading you would be getting a slight IPC bump, a slight clockspeed bump and hyperthreading. I don't think that is worth buying a new CPU for.
 
I would suggest like many members have already is to just keep your 2500K (I have one and it's great) If you wanted to upgrade though you probably should just skip Ivy Bridge and go straight into Haswell, but that's just my opinion.
 
narupls said:
I would suggest like many members have already is to just keep your 2500K (I have one and it's great) If you wanted to upgrade though you probably should just skip Ivy Bridge and go straight into Haswell, but that's just my opinion.
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And thats totally right, just not worth to upgrade to a dead socket... The better is OC their 2500k.. Making just 1GHZ to his 2500kmaking to 4.4-4.5ghz nothing extreme, will be more than enough for a couple of years, enough to save money and make possible to upgrade GPU in the next years and wait even for skylake and skip haswell and broadwell..
 
aphexcoil said:
Don't the Sandy Bridge K processors have a better GPU?
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The iGPU isn't really defined so much as by the "K" as the model you're buying (i.e. i7, i5, or i3). The "K" just means it's unlocked and easier to overclock, nothing more.
 
Not only is it easier to overclock it's one of the easiest cpus to overclock in the history of mankind, mainstream.
 
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