Bored, to buy or not to buy

[tweakboy]

Why you want to sidegrade my friend. Save up for Haswell E ... now your dealling with 8 to 12 cores beast it is.

Recently bought a new video card the GTX 970. Sold the 290x air cooled card to my roommate and have a second 290x water-cooled paired to a under powered G3258 over clocked to 4 Ghz. (using stock cooler still). Might swap it my 4770k into that case this week.

I am debating moving the G3258 to just Plex house server duty for all our computers. Under clock/volt etc and use onboard for the once a month time I wanna use it for surfing.

So I would have an empty R4 case, 290x or 970 video card to use and a 900 watt spare PSU. Also a 240mm rad, newish water pump and a universal GPU block. I cannot move back the 290x to air because I lost the screws moving to my new house.

Rant over..
Current system is Intel i7 4770k running at 4.4 Ghz with a Corsair h75. I can use either video card with it. All in a somewhat small Corsair Air 240 (love smaller cases)

I always wanted to get an X99/X58 when that was a new system. Logic tells me this is stupid and a waste of money but would be fun. Buying computer parts is my only "bad" habit.




Dont worry my friend theres plenty peeps here with your condition. You have a little COCD .... Computer Obsessive compulsive disorder. .
thank you








Eyeing up a 5820k and pairing it with the 970 for a month or two then getting a second GPU/faster one down the road.

 

[sxr7171]

Do it but remember it's "bad" for you.

 

[BTRY B 529th FA BN]

Don't think about it (upgrading). And overcome the "bored" feeling. It's a vicious cycle

 

[Magic Carpet]

At least wait till you find out if Skylake is any good or not and with what you already have, I would find some other hobbies to spend money on, like cycling or photography.

Cycling is great. After a 4-5 hour trip, my common sense is back to normal

 

[CHADBOGA]

Cycling is great. After a 4-5 hour trip, my common sense is back to normal

And there are so many parts you can upgrade.