Any point in upgrading CPU?

wvjohn · Post by **wvjohn** » Thu Mar 13, 2014 7:24 am

I think I know the answer is no, at least from a price viewpoint, but thought I'd toss it out. I'm currently running a socket 1156 I5 K Lynnfield 2.6 stock mildly oc'd to 3.15 on a gigabyte P55A-UD3. 16GB G Skills Ripjaw, and a Sapphire 7950 OC stock. I have a 24in Dell (the $3-400 one) and play at 1920x1200. Win7.

Basically bulletproof since about 2009. The nic went out on the mainboard and I replaced it with a decent Intel one. The last time I took it apart for cleaning the CPU fan header was giving me some issues on 3 pin operation so I swapped headers and hooked the cpu fan to a case fan header, runs fine, just a bit noisy.

I know the haswell's give you more bang per mhz, but i've looked at prices, and it would be at least $400 for a new cpu/mobo combo. Don't really need I7 dual threading since gaming is my heaviest load.

eGoCeNTRoNiX · Post by **eGoCeNTRoNiX** » Thu Mar 13, 2014 7:33 am

I wouldn't upgrade.. I'm still rolling on an AMD 965 Black Quad Core w/8GB of of the same memory as you.. I think your best money spent would be on an SSD for a boot drive if you haven't already done that.. You'll see the most performance gain there. I have one and the only thing on it besides the OS is WoW, I routinely get 60+fps with all settings maxed out at 1920x1200 on my 24" LCD..

eGo

DaMaN · Post by **DaMaN** » Thu Mar 13, 2014 9:14 am

^^^^ What he said. SSD are on sale regularly these days. 240GB Crucial M500 ~120 and the same sized (256GB) Samsung EVO is ~150.

b-man1 · Post by **b-man1** » Thu Mar 13, 2014 10:10 am

agreed. go SSD if you haven't. if your mobo has SATA3, get the Samsung EVO...if SATA2, go with the Crucial M500.

wvjohn · Post by **wvjohn** » Thu Mar 13, 2014 10:36 am

I've got the SSD. No real issues as to FPS. My main problem is as usual my lack of real broadband when playing online. Still working on that one.

Thanks gang!

ZYFER · Post by **ZYFER** » Fri Mar 14, 2014 5:05 am

I wouldn't bother until you really feel like you need to. Best thinking ahead and putting money aside for it. By then you would probably need a new video card and RAM to go with it.