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is it time for upgrade

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Depends on what you're doing.

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Nah maybe a decent OC but, my cousin has an i7 950 paired with a GTX 780 and it still demolishes games. 

PC: Corsair C70 Arctic, FX 9370, Corsair H80i, Gigabyte 990fxa-ud3, Corsair Vengence 16gb, Palit JetStream GTX 970, OCZ Vertex 4 128gb and Western Digital Blue 1Tb + 500gb, Antec Gamer 520w

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Depending on what you do with your PC.

If you are gaming, at 1080p, and are currently comfortable with keep on doing so, then I don't believe it's worth the jump.

Gaming Perfomance will only be affected by 1-10 fps, depending on the game, but most of the times the difference is not visible.

Rendering will be very much improved, around 30-40% better. And on some light workloads, the TurboBoost present on the newer CPUs can speed things up over %50

Z87 and z97 motherboards have plenty of features compared to the older platform, maybe better sound, expandability, SATA and USB ports, a nice UEFI and simple stuff like fan control profiles are reason enough to drive you to an Upgrade.

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