Upgrade worth it? 920 to 4820k

[AnonymouseUser]

No, different friend.

You're too nice, and IMO you're friends are taking advantage of you. :\

 

[ehume]

No, different friend.

You need to consider ditching these people you call "friends," and examining how you make friends.

OP: 1050 Watts? Your rig likely underuses your PSU, so it will be good for years of service. And a twin 140mm AIO? And 32GB with a 4820? What fun!

 

[jimbob200521]

You need to consider ditching these people you call "friends," and examining how you make friends.

OP: 1050 Watts? Your rig likely underuses your PSU, so it will be good for years of service. And a twin 140mm AIO? And 32GB with a 4820? What fun!

Yeah, the PSU especially is overkill for me for a looonnnggg time, if not forever. Unless I decide to throw in another 280x in the future, I think I'll be just fine in that area hah

 

[nenforcer]

All of those parts are easily worth double, $600, of what you paid for them!

 

[jihe]

Swap that 4820k out for a cheap 3960x.

 

[jimbob200521]

Well I gotta say, after some tinkering (getting a good amount of BSOD's) I figure out my issue and got this thing going good. I will say, when running Chrome or a single program, performance would be hard to differentiate from the i7 920. But when you multitask or do something that takes advantage of the SATA3 6gbps the difference is obvious. Also, when playing Cities Skylines (my current game of choice) the difference is very noticeable but I'm sure that's due to the video card more than that CPU. Everything is so smooth and snappy. Didn't think I needed an upgrade but I guess I was wrong!

 

[ehume]

Actually, you may not need to upgrade for USB3. People sell USB3 cards for your backplane. MI had my daughter using one on a hand-me-down P55 rig (i7 860). Worked fine. Cheap, too.

 

[jimbob200521]

Actually, you may not need to upgrade for USB3. People sell USB3 cards for your backplane. MI had my daughter using one on a hand-me-down P55 rig (i7 860). Worked fine. Cheap, too.

Huh? This board has USB 3.0 (not quite USB 3.1C but still fine by me).

 

[ehume]

Huh? This board has USB 3.0 (not quite USB 3.1C but still fine by me).

I screwed up. I meant SATA3 via the backplane. You were noting the missing SATA3, not USB3. The USB3 card we have also has SATA3 on it.