Worth upgrading from 2600k?

[fackamato]

Hi folks

I'm currently on a P67 chipset and a 2600k CPU, 8GB DDR3 and a GTX980. SSDs too. Is it worth upgrading to the latest gen? I was looking at getting a 2011 socket and a Xeon CPU (4-core or so) to get ECC support.

IT would be a workstation/gaming platform.

Thanks

 

[DaveSimmons]

Not for gaming.

What work do you do that you think would benefit from ECC?

 

[fackamato]

Not for gaming.

What work do you do that you think would benefit from ECC?

Nothing in particular, just hopefully increased stability.

If I go with the latest generation of i7 instead of Xeon, would that be a justifiable keap in performance?

 

[MongGrel]

I can run ECC in my this old one and I do not.

It's more for stability, not performance.

And even then over redundant for most people.

 

[mfenn]

The i7 2600K is still a respectably fast chip. Since you have a P67 motherboard, you can overclock it to well over 4 GHz on a cheap cooler like the Zalman CNPS10X. At that point, it's competitive with a stock-clocked Haswell i7.

 

[gmaster456]

I would not bother upgrading at this point

 

[CuriousMike]

*snip* to get ECC support.


Thanks

*snip* just hopefully increased stability.

What is unstable about your current system?

 

[escrow4]

If you'd upgrade only a 5820K would be worthwhile, plus all the modern benefits of X99. Or a 5960X.