upgrading from old pc

[wes104]

im upgrading my old e8400 pc and was going to get a asrock z77 extreme 4 but i dont know witch processor to get.what i mostly do is game and do a multitasking.i was thinking about the i7 2600k or the i5 3570k witch i could get for about the same price or i could save up some more and get a i7 3770k. witch do you think of those three would be the best.

 

[daveybrat]

Are you planning on buying used parts from someone?

That Z77 motherboard chipset and the processor's you mentioned are all old.

If you are going to buy new, i'd be looking at either H97 or Z97 chipsets and either an i5 4690K or an i7 4790K.

 

[wes104]

Are you planning on buying used parts from someone?

That Z77 motherboard chipset and the processor's you mentioned are all old.

If you are going to buy new, i'd be looking at either H97 or Z97 chipsets and either an i5 4690K or an i7 4790K.

well i thought it might be a little cheaper .what are som good lga 1150 boards you could recomend

 

[daveybrat]

Do you plan on overclocking or going SLI or Crossfire??

 

[wes104]

Do you plan on overclocking or going SLI or Crossfire??

some overclocking when need and i would like to have the option of sli

 

[daveybrat]

Then i would go with the following for you:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...-714-_-Product

GIGABYTE GA-Z97X-SLI LGA 1150 Intel Z97 HDMI SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX Intel Motherboard $124.99

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...-372-_-Product

Intel Core i5-4690K Devil's Canyon Quad-Core 3.5GHz LGA 1150 Desktop Processor BX80646I54690K $219.99

This gives you overclocking abilites, SLI, good audio (Realtek 1150), and a processor that is very overclocking friendly.

 

[wes104]

Then i would go with the following for you:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...-714-_-Product

GIGABYTE GA-Z97X-SLI LGA 1150 Intel Z97 HDMI SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX Intel Motherboard $124.99

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...-372-_-Product

Intel Core i5-4690K Devil's Canyon Quad-Core 3.5GHz LGA 1150 Desktop Processor BX80646I54690K $219.99

This gives you overclocking abilites, SLI, good audio (Realtek 1150), and a processor that is very overclocking friendly.

also i read that haswell get a little hotter then the others.will i have a proplem with my house getting up to around 100f sometimes.

 

[wes104]

and on the mothboard that you showed me can the low power thing be turned off because i dont think my psu sopports it.

 

[xthetenth]

also i read that haswell get a little hotter then the others.will i have a proplem with my house getting up to around 100f sometimes.

Devil's Canyon runs cooler, but if I remember right haswell didn't put out more heat, it just ran at a higher temperature because the design was less effective at getting that heat to the heatsink without a greater temperature difference. It's heat output into your room that'll make it hot, not the chip's temperature.

 

[BonzaiDuck]

also i read that haswell get a little hotter then the others.will i have a proplem with my house getting up to around 100f sometimes.

Take it from me. There are reasons why there are so many Sandy Bridge holdouts. That's a given. My mistake was to spend any more money on 1155 technology. It's not giving me more trouble than necessary -- excluding the fact that I chunked a pin on the mobo socket with the corner of the processor PCB when my hand slipped.

In my case, I have other family members who will need upgrades and who don't care about latest and greatest. There might be an advantage to having more than one machine of one socket generation.

But really -- if this isn't about "tinkering" or "curiosity" or anything else that causes people to spend more money than they need to -- go with the socket 1150 and the Devils Canyon.

 

[wes104]

Take it from me. There are reasons why there are so many Sandy Bridge holdouts. That's a given. My mistake was to spend any more money on 1155 technology. It's not giving me more trouble than necessary -- excluding the fact that I chunked a pin on the mobo socket with the corner of the processor PCB when my hand slipped.

In my case, I have other family members who will need upgrades and who don't care about latest and greatest. There might be an advantage to having more than one machine of one socket generation.

But really -- if this isn't about "tinkering" or "curiosity" or anything else that causes people to spend more money than they need to -- go with the socket 1150 and the Devils Canyon.

so you recomend 1150?what motherboards would you recomend?i aint going to buy anything few a few more weeks im just trying to get everything together .

 

[daveybrat]

so you recomend 1150?what motherboards would you recomend?i aint going to buy anything few a few more weeks im just trying to get everything together .

Go with the same motherboard i linked earlier. You said you wanted overclocking abilities and SLI. Can't go wrong with the Gigabyte board.

And it has the best Realtek audio onboard as an added bonus.

 

[BonzaiDuck]

so you recomend 1150?what motherboards would you recomend?i aint going to buy anything few a few more weeks im just trying to get everything together .

I won't discount davybrat's recommendation. I just remember secondhand some shortcomings of the Gigabyte line from two generations ago.

If you plan to overclock, find a board that has good phase-power design. 8+4, 8+2 -- see if you can find the specs. I've been playing with a 4+1 board just for want of better at the moment, and the differences are apparent in both the BIOS and OC performance.

If you don't plan on EVER overclocking, the field could be wide open as far as I can see -- and I haven't researched it much. I buy ASUS boards when I can. I've had Gigabyte and EVGA boards, and I had a high-end board that "fell short" of expectations from ASUS. I don't get very familiar with chipsets that don't squeeze the drops out of a "K" chip unless I have to make an "emergency replacement" for someone else. So I wouldn't consider anything other than a Z97 board for the 4790K. Or the 4690K for that matter . .