Need upgrade advice

[perdomot]

Currently running a core i5 760 OC'd to 4Ghz and wanted to ask what would be a reasonable upgrade without breaking the bank. Thanks.

 

[guskline]

What budget?

 

[Yuriman]

By upgrading to a Sandy or Ivy Bridge i5, you'll get around 10-20% performance per clock and 10-15% higher clocks, which comes out to an overall 20-40% improvement.

If I had a 760 I'd probably hold out for another generation.

 

[perdomot]

What budget?

Around $150.

 

[perdomot]

By upgrading to a Sandy or Ivy Bridge i5, you'll get around 10-20% performance per clock and 10-15% higher clocks, which comes out to an overall 20-40% improvement.

If I had a 760 I'd probably hold out for another generation.

Thanks for the advice. Most intense thing I do is video encoding and the Quiksync has been tempting me for a while now so I was wondering what the overall benefit would be.

 

[T_Yamamoto]

Just go with an ivy i3 h77 combo

Edit:save more money?

 

[lehtv]

Let's see..

CPU: i5-750 @4GHz, faster than a stock clocked Ivy Bridge i5. Only an i5-3570K OC'd to 4GHz+ would be an upgrade. Given your budget, there's nothing to upgrade here, wait for Haswell in 2013.
RAM: 8GB DDR3, presumably that's enough for your purposes.
SSD: You already have one.
Case: Nice.
PSU: Unknown but presumably decent enough.

That leaves the GPU. By selling your 6770, you could afford a 7850 2GB which would double your framerates, nearly triple after OC. But if you find your framerates decent enough in the games you play, no point in upgrading the GPU yet.

 

[Arkaign]

Let's see..

CPU: i5-750 @4GHz, faster than a stock clocked Ivy Bridge i5. Only an i5-3570K OC'd to 4GHz+ would be an upgrade. Given your budget, there's nothing to upgrade here, wait for Haswell in 2013.
RAM: 8GB DDR3, presumably that's enough for your purposes.
SSD: You already have one.
Case: Nice.
PSU: Unknown but presumably decent enough.

That leaves the GPU. By selling your 6770, you could afford a 7850 2GB which would double your framerates, nearly triple after OC. But if you find your framerates decent enough in the games you play, no point in upgrading the GPU yet.

This x1000

If you had a crappy dual-core 6xx i5, I'd say upgrade. But you're pretty well set already with CPU.

 

[nyker96]

I'd personally just wait for haswell and beyond, esp. your current setup is quite enough. save the cash for a big upgrade later makes more sense.

 

[Shmee]

I agree, upgrade GPU first.

 

[ehume]

I have i7 860's and an i7 875k. I will be upgrading my wife's E7200, though, with a Haswell. Depending on how that looks, might upgrade the 800's; might wait for Broadwell. The attractive thing about Haswell/Broadwell is/will be the integrated graphics. But we'll see after the E7200 upgrade.

 

[perdomot]

Let's see..

CPU: i5-750 @4GHz, faster than a stock clocked Ivy Bridge i5. Only an i5-3570K OC'd to 4GHz+ would be an upgrade. Given your budget, there's nothing to upgrade here, wait for Haswell in 2013.
RAM: 8GB DDR3, presumably that's enough for your purposes.
SSD: You already have one.
Case: Nice.
PSU: Unknown but presumably decent enough.

That leaves the GPU. By selling your 6770, you could afford a 7850 2GB which would double your framerates, nearly triple after OC. But if you find your framerates decent enough in the games you play, no point in upgrading the GPU yet.

Thanks for the input. Looks like Haswell will be my next upgrade then.

 

[Vdubchaos]

Tell us the need first.

What is it that you do on your PC. What do you need it to do better etc