Upgrade to Sandy?

harmattan

harmattan

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I'm currently running an i7 920 at 3.4ghz and am considering upgrading to a 2600k. My main concern is gaming, and I couldn't give a shit about power/heat. For those who have moved from a Nehelam to Sandy using a high-end SLI or X-fire GPU set up, have you seen any improvement?

For background, I play at 3600x1920 with high settings.
 
I don't think the difference would be that great,with the i7 anyway. The graphics card would probably be a bigger factor in performance.
 
I don't think its very cost effective to upgrade to sandy from a 920. Getting good cooling and overclocking your I7 to 4.0+ is going to a better bet for you. Sure sandy is a bit faster but for the cost of new CPU and Mobo that's comparable to your 1366 mobo i don't think its worth it. Wait for Socket 2011 processors.

-- Edit -- Now your sig states 3.8 on your CPU and your post states 3.4..?
 
obliv said:
I don't think its very cost effective to upgrade to sandy from a 920. Getting good cooling and overclocking your I7 to 4.0+ is going to a better bet for you. Sure sandy is a bit faster but for the cost of new CPU and Mobo that's comparable to your 1366 mobo i don't think its worth it. Wait for Socket 2011 processors.

-- Edit -- Now your sig states 3.8 on your CPU and your post states 3.4..?
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Agreed completely, get a better cooler for 4.0 and you shouldn't be bottlenecked by your processor at all. And once socket 2011 comes out, you can make your decision then
 
Yeah I find myself waiting for 2011 socket to upgrade, get a solid state drive instead it will boost boot speed and program loading.
 
skip the upgrade since the improvement does not equate with upgrading cost
 
Also the recall of the #67 motherboards because of the SATA2 ports not working cause of bad chip. I would wait a couple of months after 2011 socket comes out, wait and see if any bugs in the system.
 
Yeah, I'd say wait another gen before upgrading again. You'll see more of a performance increase if you do.
 
At your resolution, probably every game you run would benefit from the CPU. Sandy Bridge is like 20% faster in some scenarios than the old architecture.
 
I can't see any improvements in upgrading to sandybridge over your current i7 setup being worth it for what performance increases you may have. Stick with your i7, it still has a lot of life left in it.

Like others have said, a GPU upgrade or adding an SSD will be a lot more beneficial.
 
saying that a GPU would help more doesn't discount that at that resolution, the CPU matters too.
 
Yeah, the CPU matters, but when it comes to gaming upgrading from an i7 920 @ 3.4ghz will not make much of a difference compared to if he added or upgraded a video card.
 
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