What would you do (Upgrade)

[Schoolofmonkey]

I'm in a little bit of a conundrum.

 

I have the ability to upgrade my machine in 2 weeks, now I'm looking at a x99 system as it has to last me at least 3 years as I won't have the money again for a while.

Now the thing is my current machine is still pretty beefy.

 

Current Setup:

4790K (H110 cooled)

Asus Maximus VII Hero

16GB G-Skill Trident 2400 DDR3

Gigabyte GTX980 G1 Gaming.

 

Looking at:

5820k (As time goes on the 5960k will be cheaper second hand)

H110i GT or Swiftech 240-X (not sure yet, advice?)

Corsair Vengeance LPX 16GB DDR4 2400Mhz or G.Skill Ripjaws 4 16GB DDR4 2400Mhz (G-Skill is $20 cheaper but higher timings)

Asus Sabertooth X99

eVGA GTX980ti Hybrid (if I can source one) or a Gigabyte GTX980ti G1 Gaming.

 

I know the 4790k does beat the 5820k in single thread, but I'm looking at the fact there's really nowhere to go in terms of smaller upgrades in the future (Like a faster CPU second hand).

I'm going to sell the GTX980 to recoup some money as there's no one here that uses it (kids are console users...blah and the wife doesn't play games.)

Either way I do need to replace my wife's z77 machine as the motherboard is dying.

 

What would you guys do, is it worth spending the money for longevity?

 

Thanks.

[Aytex]

for ram which ever cas is lower

[MaximusX]

I'm in a little bit of a conundrum.

 

I have the ability to upgrade my machine in 2 weeks, now I'm looking at a x99 system as it has to last me at least 3 years as I won't have the money again for a while.

Now the thing is my current machine is still pretty beefy.

 

Current Setup:

4790K (H110 cooled)

Asus Maximus VII Hero

16GB G-Skill Trident 2400 DDR3

Gigabyte GTX980 G1 Gaming.

 

Looking at:

5820k (As time goes on the 5960k will be cheaper second hand)

H110i GT or Swiftech 240-X (not sure yet, advice?)

Corsair Vengeance LPX 16GB DDR4 2400Mhz or G.Skill Ripjaws 4 16GB DDR4 2400Mhz (G-Skill is $20 cheaper but higher timings)

Asus Sabertooth X99

eVGA GTX980ti Hybrid (if I can source one) or a Gigabyte GTX980ti G1 Gaming.

 

I know the 4790k does beat the 5820k in single thread, but I'm looking at the fact there's really nowhere to go in terms of smaller upgrades in the future (Like a faster CPU second hand).

I'm going to sell the GTX980 to recoup some money as there's no one here that uses it (kids are console users...blah and the wife doesn't play games.)

Either way I do need to replace my wife's z77 machine as the motherboard is dying.

 

What would you guys do, is it worth spending the money for longevity?

 

Thanks.

I would wait a year or at least a couple of months for skylake before upgrading

[Br3tt96]

I'd just keep the z97, unless you do rendering. Those extra cores will come in handy, but otherwise keep the z97/4790k...

[Pizzatime6]

Upgrade? Just water cool everything unless your doing video rendering or some other task like that.

[Aytex]

theres really no point of upgradeing unless your a renderer/editor

[Schoolofmonkey]

for ram which ever cas is lower

 

15-15-15-35-2N. G.SKILL

 

14-16-16-31 Corsair

[rafazafar]

Your machine looks like its already ready for 2-3 to come . Just maybe upgrade in storage and gpu as time goes by.

The performance gain you get is way too little to be worth the upgrade. Probably worth much more upgrading your wifes PC to something nice and compact

[Arcanekitten]

ehhh maybe monitor ? ultrawide is very nice 

[Schoolofmonkey]

ehhh maybe monitor ? ultrawide is very nice 

 

Unless it's 144hz, no thanks, running the 144hz 27" Benq at the moment, and there's no way I can go back to 60hz..lol

 

Upgrade? Just water cool everything unless your doing video rendering or some other task like that.

 

That's why I was looking at the Swiftech 240-x, easy way of starting into watercooling (or so they say)...lol

[Schoolofmonkey]

ehhh maybe monitor ? ultrawide is very nice 

 

Now after typing the last response the BenQ XR3501 popped up on the stores front page.

It's a 35in curved display, 2560x1080 wide resolution with 144Hz refresh rate and 4ms GTG response time.

Now that's taken my fancy teamed up with a GTX980ti...

 

Hmm would like to see @LinusTech review this beast..