Currently I am running Sig Rig a overcloked 955 on water to 4ghz and I know I posted this a while ago but I am under the delima or either upgrading to Sandy Bridge 2500k or 2600k or waiting until Ivy-Bridge. Any thoughts? Currently I am able to pretty much run anything but I have been thinking about running a second 6970 or Xfire 7970 and I know there will be a large bottle neck on 1080p -- 1200p gaming with my 955.
Currently I am running Sig Rig a overcloked 955 on water to 4ghz and I know I posted this a while ago but I am under the delima or either upgrading to Sandy Bridge 2500k or 2600k or waiting until Ivy-Bridge. Any thoughts? Currently I am able to pretty much run anything but I have been thinking about running a second 6970 or Xfire 7970 and I know there will be a large bottle neck on 1080p -- 1200p gaming with my 955.
What are your thoughts?
Your rig will handle it fine at 1080p. Also, eyefinity doesn't put that much more stress on your CPU: it's the GPU that you should upgrade now IF you go for eyefinity. A 2nd 6970 would do you good.
Otherwise... my advice? Wait till the next consoles (and the next gen games) come out, or upgrade just before that. From what I hear, that's around 2013. Outliers like Crysis aside, only then will the big titles challenge your rig, as game devs will finally up the ante. Personally, my 965 and 6850s are doing just fine with anything I run.
if you want to go intel then with ivy bridge sooo close, i would wait and get an I7 3770K if HT will benifit you. but the i5 3570K will be similar to the i5 2500k as ivys best bang for buck gamming cpu. and you might as well wait and see what z77 mobos are released. i only say this as release dates are getting close
Ivy Bridge? Ya, but from what I hear, they don't OC THAT much better than SB, especially since you'll have it under water anyway. You won't be disappointed with SB, but you'll be happier with IB.
Yes they´ll use native z77/z75 chipset(msi and gigabyte shown theirs at ces2012) but now u can get good mobo with compatibility (Asus P8P67 PRO REV3.1/Gigabyte P67A-UD4-B3/Asrock P67 Extreme4 gen3)
Wait till Ivy Bridge and then if you're in it for a new video card grab a Kepler if they're out by then, unless you want eyefinity and by that time it might be worth it to do a 7870 Crossfired or something
Wait till Ivy Bridge and then if you're in it for a new video card grab a Kepler if they're out by then, unless you want eyefinity and by that time it might be worth it to do a 7870 Crossfired or something
pretty much any lga1155 board will allow you to drop in an Ivy bridge cpu, most will need a BIOS update and then come the gen 3s which support PCIe 3.0
Im not patient lol...Really whats the benefit on the z77 boards going to be anyway?
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