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Rajii017
By Rajii017
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Hi all,

 

I'm looking to upgrade my PC in the next couple of months as I am getting a little worried regarding the architecture.  

Currently I am running an I7 990X o/c'd to 4.1 ghz.

 

From my reading it would seem that most people are fans of the I7 6700k, is there another recommendation or is this chip be the 'one to get' (for that  balance between wallet and performance).

 

New chip will also necessitate a new motherboard (yay socket set).

Any recommendations in this respect?  Currently have 16gb (it was cheap) DDR3 ram & GTX 980 on board.

 

Thanks in advance for the input and advice.

 

 

 

 

 

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the balance would be an i5 6600k

the chipset would have to be a z170

ram is required to be ddr4

you can reuse the same gpu

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Samsung 850 EVO 240 GB 

138 is a good number.

 

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5 minutes ago, Rajii017 said:

Hi all,

 

I'm looking to upgrade my PC in the next couple of months as I am getting a little worried regarding the architecture.  

Currently I am running an I7 990X o/c'd to 4.1 ghz.

 

From my reading it would seem that most people are fans of the I7 6700k, is there another recommendation or is this chip be the 'one to get' (for that  balance between wallet and performance).

 

New chip will also necessitate a new motherboard (yay socket set).

Any recommendations in this respect?  Currently have 16gb (it was cheap) DDR3 ram & GTX 980 on board.

 

Thanks in advance for the input and advice.

 

 

 

 

 

Whats wrong with LGA 1366? If your computer is still performing fine, theres no reason to upgrade!

My native language is C++

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If you were to go Haswell (which is marginally below Skylake performance-wise), you could reuse that 16GB of RAM and save yourself $60.

'Fanboyism is stupid' - someone on this forum.

Be nice to each other boys and girls. And don't cheap out on a power supply.

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Go get yourself a 4790K/4770k and a z97 motherboard instead. Unless you really need 2400MHz+ RAM.

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1 minute ago, tt2468 said:

Whats wrong with LGA 1366? If your computer is still performing fine, theres no reason to upgrade!

My 1366 has been oc'd to 4.1 ghz since early 2011.

It could be my imagination but it seems to be hanging now and then or having times of slow down.

 

It's not a heat issue, its been liquid cooled and never gets even close to hot.

 

That said, if there is nothing new that is going to offer a significant performance I'll stick with what I have.

I personally don't follow the ever-updating releases of new products that closely.

 

Which is why I always ask the advice of you good folks ^^

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