Upgrade

[Trebs]

Hey AnandTech. I want to upgrade my PC.

So i am thinking about. What would give most Performance a new MB, Ram and CPU. Or just a new GFX Like GTX 590, 6990 Or GTX 580. ^_^
Intel Core™ i5 Quad Processor i5-2500K

ASUS Sabertooth P67, Socket-1155

Corsair Vengeance™ DDR3 1600MHz 8GB CL9

Corsair H70 Hydro Series CPU Køler

+ GTX 295 With that System


Old System:

Q6600 3.6Ghz
4GB Ram
GTX 295

 

[mfenn]

First piece of advice: Don't spend $700 on a graphics card. It's not worth the performance gain or the ridiculous noise. I'd recommend a GTX 580 because it's about 50-75% faster than your GTX 295. If you want to go the dual-GPU route, you have to deal with all the normal SLI/Crossfire BS anyway, so you might as well get two boards.

Your Core 2 Quad at 3.6Ghz is still a pretty fast chip. I don't think that even a GTX 580 would be bottlenecked by one at 1080P and above. If you want to upgrade that as well, I would go with the i5 2500K that you have listed, but would get a different mobo, RAM, and HSF. The Sabertooth mobo looks cool, but that's about it. Something on the level of the ASRock Extreme4 would work just as well. Try to get RAM without tall heatspreaders (or with no heatspreaders at all) since RAM does not play a role in Sandy Bridge overclocking and you'll want some clearance for my next item. Finally, the H70 is not all it's cracked up to be. It's really no more efficient than a good air cooler like a Noctua D14 or U12P and has another non-servicable part to break (the tiny little pump).

 

[Trebs]

First piece of advice: Don't spend $700 on a graphics card. It's not worth the performance gain or the ridiculous noise. I'd recommend a GTX 580 because it's about 50-75% faster than your GTX 295. If you want to go the dual-GPU route, you have to deal with all the normal SLI/Crossfire BS anyway, so you might as well get two boards.

Your Core 2 Quad at 3.6Ghz is still a pretty fast chip. I don't think that even a GTX 580 would be bottlenecked by one at 1080P and above. If you want to upgrade that as well, I would go with the i5 2500K that you have listed, but would get a different mobo, RAM, and HSF. The Sabertooth mobo looks cool, but that's about it. Something on the level of the ASRock Extreme4 would work just as well. Try to get RAM without tall heatspreaders (or with no heatspreaders at all) since RAM does not play a role in Sandy Bridge overclocking and you'll want some clearance for my next item. Finally, the H70 is not all it's cracked up to be. It's really no more efficient than a good air cooler like a Noctua D14 or U12P and has another non-servicable part to break (the tiny little pump).

Cool ^_^ So the system now

ASUS P8P67 PRO, Socket-1155 (Recommended by some others from a forum) ^_^
Corsair XMS3 DDR3 1333MHz 8GB CL9
Intel Core™ i5 Quad Processor i5-2500K
MSI GeForce GTX 580 1536MB PhysX "Twin Frozr II"
Noctua NH-D14 CPU Cooler

How much better will this system be than my other system ?

 

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Cool ^_^ So the system now

ASUS P8P67 PRO, Socket-1155 (Recommended by some others from a forum) ^_^
Corsair XMS3 DDR3 1333MHz 8GB CL9
Intel Core™ i5 Quad Processor i5-2500K
MSI GeForce GTX 580 1536MB PhysX "Twin Frozr II"
Noctua NH-D14 CPU Cooler

How much better will this system be than my other system ?

It'll run cooler
Overclock further
And play your games sweetly

 

[mfenn]

Cool ^_^ So the system now

ASUS P8P67 PRO, Socket-1155 (Recommended by some others from a forum) ^_^
Corsair XMS3 DDR3 1333MHz 8GB CL9
Intel Core™ i5 Quad Processor i5-2500K
MSI GeForce GTX 580 1536MB PhysX "Twin Frozr II"
Noctua NH-D14 CPU Cooler

How much better will this system be than my other system ?

Gaming-wise? Quite a bit, but that's most from the GPU alone.