- Apr 17, 2010
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I'm wanting to dump my huge Corsair case and go to an Elite 110. From here on out I'm done with massive cases much to the love of the Mrs. But I'm still rocking a 2500k that is over clocked to 4Ghz on a H50. I'm currently using a 290X but will be selling that for the Asus GTX 970 mini that will fit comfortably inside that new case.
My question is, would it be worth it to just bite the bullet and move to Skylake? It would cost approx $400 extra to dump my Sandy Bridge and move to a i5-6600k when figuring the cost of the new CPU, MB cost difference from mini-itx 1155, and new RAM.
There is only 1 MB listed on Newegg for mini itx in 1155 and it's a pretty gimped board. No Sata III just II. My Samsung SSD will be pissed with that bottleneck.
Any recommendations on what I should do here to move to mini itx that makes the most sense? I'm even open to other CPU suggestions so I can reuse my DDR3.
My question is, would it be worth it to just bite the bullet and move to Skylake? It would cost approx $400 extra to dump my Sandy Bridge and move to a i5-6600k when figuring the cost of the new CPU, MB cost difference from mini-itx 1155, and new RAM.
There is only 1 MB listed on Newegg for mini itx in 1155 and it's a pretty gimped board. No Sata III just II. My Samsung SSD will be pissed with that bottleneck.
Any recommendations on what I should do here to move to mini itx that makes the most sense? I'm even open to other CPU suggestions so I can reuse my DDR3.
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