Upgrade to x58 board or GPU?

[CompletelyBrokn]

I have the board from a Dell T3500 with a W3670 I picked up for $40 off ebay a few months back and 8gb of ram. I've recently put it in my 4u rack mount server case and I've been thinking of investing a bit more into it to give a more longer (2-3 yr) system. I have an AMD 7850 1GB card fill-in for now and game on a 32" 1080p tv.

I have a friend who is willing to sell me his EVGA x58 3way sli board, Noctua Dual Fan heatsink(not sure the model but it was 100 new back in the day), and a GTX 680 for $210 shipped. Everything works to my knowledge. I was thinking of getting this and seeing what this w3670 could do, and if it could hit 4+ ghz I think it could be a longer term system. If not, I figured I could sell it and get my money back.

The other thought was just to keep the CPU at stock and just get a better GPU with the money. Is there going to be enough gain with overclocking the CPU from a gaming perspective? I had hoped to build a zen 2 system first of next year, but if I do this I wouldn't have to.

Thoughts?

 

[Archaea]

Your current system isn't lacking much at all over that x58 board. The overclocking would help but not nearly as much as a GPU.

Find a better graphics card and spend the money that way.

Keep on track for your Zen system instead of "upgrading" to only slightly better 10 year old tech.

 

[rhansen5_99]

I would vote to keep your money as that W3670 (6c12) is about on par with a R5 1500 / 2600k (stock) in raw cpu. Not to mention that the 1366 chips turn into little reactors (120-140W+) when overclocking them. FYI Microcenter has refurb gtx 770gtx's for $130 if you have one around, and I think these were the minimal update to the gtx 680's. Also note that the gtx 1050 / rx 460 / 560 cards are about on par with those guys and use a ton less power and are <$80 from time to time. It does suck that the midrange cards are way $$$ now to the crypto mining craze sucking up all the cards atm.

On the other hand it might be a fun project to go an play with