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Upgrade or Replace?

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DarkStar_WNY

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My current rig is listed below and is mainly used for gaming, and although i've hadn't had an issue playing any game I've tried with the settings all cranked but I've been resisting the urge to upgrade or replace the rig with something newer (especially since building my son a new rig at the end of last summer.)

So here's my question, should I upgrade it, replace it, or wait for the release of Haswell CPUs before building a new rig?

If you would upgrade it, what would you suggest? While cost isn't huge factor I don't want to waste money and thus am looking at bang for the buck.


My current rig:

MAINGEAR SHIFT Chassis with Advanced Vertical Heat Dissipation
Brushed Black Aluminum with Acrylic and Matte Black Accents
AcoustiPack Ultimate Sound Dampening
1.2KW Silverstone Zeus Modular Industrial Power Supply (got in in case I decided to add a second videocard)
ATI® Radeon™ HD 5970 2GB GDDR5 DX11
Asus Rampage III Extreme X58 Supporting CrossFire and SLI, USB 3.0, SATA 6G
Intel® Core® i7-930 2.8GHz Quad-core with Hyperthreading
MAINGEAR / Asetek Maintenance-Free X120 Liquid Cooling
6GB Kingston HyperX Triple-Channel DDR3-2000MHz Low Latency
YES! - Redline™ Overclock My System!
256GB Crucial® RealSSD™ C300 SATA 6G (w/TRIM)
250GB Samsung 840 SSD
1.0TB Western Digital Caviar Black SATA 6G 7200rpm 64MB Cache (date storage drive)
All-in-One Integrated USB 2.0 Flash Card Reader & Writer
24X Dual Layer DVD RW Drive w/ LightScribe Technology
7.1 Channel High Definition Surround Sound Supporting S/DIF Optical Out
Dual On-board Gigabit Ethernet
Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit
LG W40 23" LCD monitor 1920x1080
 
DarkStar_WNY said:
My current rig is listed below and is mainly used for gaming, and although i've hadn't had an issue playing any game I've tried with the settings all cranked but I've been resisting the urge to upgrade or replace the rig with something newer (especially since building my son a new rig at the end of last summer.)

So here's my question, should I upgrade it, replace it, or wait for the release of Haswell CPUs before building a new rig?

If you would upgrade it, what would you suggest? While cost isn't huge factor I don't want to waste money and thus am looking at bang for the buck.


My current rig:

MAINGEAR SHIFT Chassis with Advanced Vertical Heat Dissipation
Brushed Black Aluminum with Acrylic and Matte Black Accents
AcoustiPack Ultimate Sound Dampening
1.2KW Silverstone Zeus Modular Industrial Power Supply (got in in case I decided to add a second videocard)
ATI® Radeon™ HD 5970 2GB GDDR5 DX11
Asus Rampage III Extreme X58 Supporting CrossFire and SLI, USB 3.0, SATA 6G
Intel® Core® i7-930 2.8GHz Quad-core with Hyperthreading
MAINGEAR / Asetek Maintenance-Free X120 Liquid Cooling
6GB Kingston HyperX Triple-Channel DDR3-2000MHz Low Latency
YES! - Redline™ Overclock My System!
256GB Crucial® RealSSD™ C300 SATA 6G (w/TRIM)
250GB Samsung 840 SSD
1.0TB Western Digital Caviar Black SATA 6G 7200rpm 64MB Cache (date storage drive)
All-in-One Integrated USB 2.0 Flash Card Reader & Writer
24X Dual Layer DVD RW Drive w/ LightScribe Technology
7.1 Channel High Definition Surround Sound Supporting S/DIF Optical Out
Dual On-board Gigabit Ethernet
Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit
LG W40 23" LCD monitor 1920x1080
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I have the same mobo and CPU as you do. I'm going to do a completely new build so I can use this one as a media center. I'm holding off for the next big CPU tech.

In the meantime I am overclocking. I play most games on medium settings so I can get a high framerate and take advantage of my 120hz monitor. I don't really care about graphics a whole lot, just being able to play at a high frame rate. So I will be okay for a while longer.

I figure if I'm upgrading the majority of the costly parts I might as well just do a completely new build so I can still make use of the old stuff.

If you wanted to still use your old system for something like a media center you could probably use your PSU for your new system and get a cheaper one for your old one, maybe use some of the hard drives or SSDs in the new one and leave the old one with one hard drive.
 
If it works for you, hold onto it. The only thing I'd suggest replacing is the video card, and that's only if you're not obtaining the performance that you want from it.

If you have the upgrade bug, however, wait for Haswell to arrive. Then again, the "lateral move" for you upgrade-wise would be Socket 2011 and Sandy/Ivy Bridge-E.
 
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