JABoyle3875
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- Jan 25, 2008
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Any help is appreciated.
I currently have the following:
i7-2600K that I've never tried to overclock
Appropriate Gigabyte motherboard, I've fallen so far out of knowing chipsets and processor code names (Palomino, Kalamath, Tualatin, used to know them ALL) that "appropriate gigabyte motherboard" is as descriptive as I can get off the top o' me noggin'.
16GB DDR3 RAM - 4x4GB, GSkill I believe.
I've had that combo in place since December of 2012.
Would upgrading to the 6 core i7-5820, with the requisite new motherboard & RAM be "worth" it?
Parts I'd be carrying over to the new rig:
EVGA 670 video card
750 watt power supply
Blu-Ray burner
512GB Crucial SSD
4x 2TB WD Green hard drives - media storage
Acer 27" 1440p monitor
Primary uses: gaming (Blizzard games, some FPS games), video encoding - Handbrake, Folding @ Home.
I'd be looking at $775 or so at my local Microcenter for everything. Then of course, off to find someone looking to buy my old mobo/CPU/RAM to help make some of that back.
I'm not finding anything that is making me think "WHY IS THIS PC SO SLOW", but with longer term plans being made with my wife, this may be the last chance I get for a time to do a major, perhaps more future proof, upgrade. Besides, I love the smell of new computer parts.
Again, thanks for any insight you can provide.
I currently have the following:
i7-2600K that I've never tried to overclock
Appropriate Gigabyte motherboard, I've fallen so far out of knowing chipsets and processor code names (Palomino, Kalamath, Tualatin, used to know them ALL) that "appropriate gigabyte motherboard" is as descriptive as I can get off the top o' me noggin'.
16GB DDR3 RAM - 4x4GB, GSkill I believe.
I've had that combo in place since December of 2012.
Would upgrading to the 6 core i7-5820, with the requisite new motherboard & RAM be "worth" it?
Parts I'd be carrying over to the new rig:
EVGA 670 video card
750 watt power supply
Blu-Ray burner
512GB Crucial SSD
4x 2TB WD Green hard drives - media storage
Acer 27" 1440p monitor
Primary uses: gaming (Blizzard games, some FPS games), video encoding - Handbrake, Folding @ Home.
I'd be looking at $775 or so at my local Microcenter for everything. Then of course, off to find someone looking to buy my old mobo/CPU/RAM to help make some of that back.
I'm not finding anything that is making me think "WHY IS THIS PC SO SLOW", but with longer term plans being made with my wife, this may be the last chance I get for a time to do a major, perhaps more future proof, upgrade. Besides, I love the smell of new computer parts.
Again, thanks for any insight you can provide.