Upgrade i7 940?

Thion · February 2, 2019

I am looking for an upgrade in my pc to get better gaming performance and was first thinking of get an upgrade for my GTX 970 card, but was thinking I maby should upgrade some other parts instead as I have use the same for years now..

I have a Core i7 940, 12 G ram and Gtx 970, and bought today a new screen. Swift PG278QR

So I really should need som help to get the most out of the system, and what parts to upgrade next.

Levent · February 2, 2019

you can get hexa core xeons for 1366 socket but I wouldnt bother unless you can get them dirt cheap, just save up for a new rig or overclock your 940 with a decent cooler.

Waqas409 · February 2, 2019

if your motherboard support, go with CPU ( intel Xeon W3690 or Intel Xeon X5650 ) both are 6 cores / 12 threads CPUS, on Stock there cinebench score goes between 850-990, if you overclock these beast xeon chips you can easily go upto 1200cb on multicore.( for reference i5 8400 has cinebench multi score of 980 ).
Personally using Intel Xeon W3690 ( workstation ) with GTX 1070 Ti. Doing 1440p gaming with ez.