Upgrade advice

[madmecca75]

Wanting to upgrade CPU and motherboard

Iam using i5 3570k and msi z77a-gd65

Wanting to upgrade to i7

Do I go with

I7 4770k with either msi z87-gd65 or msi z87 mpower costs £387 to £396

Or should I go with

I7 4820k extreme 2011 ivy bridge

With asrock x79 extreme 4 costs £394 it's for gaming video editing and making music. Thanks in advance

[Dudenstein]

If you're actually going to put to use by all means go for it

[Paralectic]

4770K With the MSI Z87 GD65 if you really want to upgrade.

[Elven]

@Madmecc75

 

The 3570k is a great all rounder CPU for gaming etc. It isn't really worth upgrading to i7 unless you be doing heavy threaded processes like transcoding/encoding etc?

[KamiKatze]

I can't imagine your i5 is too weak for your tasks. If it really is, then go with the 4770K. But honestly I'd stick to your i5.

[madmecca75]

Also would x79 make any difference to gaming as I use crossfire 7950 and as far as I can see x79 would run both at x16 is this correct thanks for the advice

[s3ns3]

If you really want an upgrade, go with 2011 socket.

but not from quad to quad. he should go with 3770K. both 4820k and 3770k are ivy

[madmecca75]

4930k is a bit out of my price range

[s3ns3]

If he really wants an upgrade he should go with the 4930K not 3770K (which is quad-core not hexa)

he only mentioned 4820k on 2011,which is quad. 

 

3770k and keep the mobo

[TheProfosist]

I wouldnt bother and would try and wait for haswell e as none of the options you listed are going to get you any real big jump in performance.

[Analog]

There is no point upgrading to a newer processor for only a marginal performance gain. I would wait for Haswell-E and get a nice 6-core CPU for the price of the 4820K today. 

[madmecca75]

From what I have found out on internet haswell e will have a different socket and at a guess it will cost a bit. I.e if it's DDR 4 ram then I would want to upgrade to that might wait till computec is over and then will find out prices.

[Analog]

From what I have found out on internet haswell e will have a different socket and at a guess it will cost a bit. I.e if it's DDR 4 ram then I would want to upgrade to that might wait till computec is over and then will find out prices.

 

Yes mate, that is a great idea and much smarter than upgrading now, especially when having that particular setup. 

[TheProfosist]

From what I have found out on internet haswell e will have a different socket and at a guess it will cost a bit. I.e if it's DDR 4 ram then I would want to upgrade to that might wait till computec is over and then will find out prices.

Pricing will be similar to Ivy-E minus the DDR4 ram.