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Need advice with CPU upgrade??

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Hi All,

I want to upgrade my CPU and have been looking at Haswell chips (i5-i7) to drop in my 1150 board and maybe add some RAM.  Or should I be getting Skylake? If I do go Skylake route is it possible to get a decent motherboard that supports DDR3?  Or would I need DD4?  (I mostly game and do a small bit of video editing and web design....these tasks are lacking big time with my setup)

 

Current Specs

AsRock z97 Anniversary

Intel Pentium G3258@4.5Ghz

Asus Strix RX480 8Gb @1310Mhz

Adata SX930 240GB MLC SSD

WD Blue 1TB HDD

 

Thanks.

 

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2 minutes ago, HayMar said:

Hi All,

I want to upgrade my CPU and have been looking at Haswell chips (i5-i7) to drop in my 1150 board and maybe add some RAM.  Or should I be getting Skylake? If I do go Skylake route is it possible to get a decent motherboard that supports DDR3?  Or would I need DD4?  (I mostly game and do a small bit of video editing and web design....these tasks are lacking big time with my setup)

 

Current Specs

AsRock z97 Anniversary

Intel Pentium G3258@4.5Ghz

Asus Strix RX480 8Gb @1310Mhz

Adata SX930 240GB MLC SSD

WD Blue 1TB HDD

 

Thanks.

 

If I was in your shoes... I'd try to get an i7 4790k. Failing that, perhaps a 4770k. Skylake isn't really worth swapping a good mobo and perfectly usable RAM. If it was a new build, sure, buy Skylake; given that you have a nice setup for Haswell, though, save your money and invest on that.

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1 minute ago, Imakuni said:

If I was in your shoes... I'd try to get an i7 4790k. Failing that, perhaps a 4770k. Skylake isn't really worth swapping a good mobo and perfectly usable RAM. If it was a new build, sure, buy Skylake; given that you have a nice setup for Haswell, though, save your money and invest on that.

Thanks, I was leaning that way but just needed the input from someone else.

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Haswell is still good, I recommend a 4690k, or one of the i7's if you have more money. And when you upgrade, I recommend updating the bios becuase I see you have an overclocked G3258, and overclocking it isn't possible with the recent BIOS's. And you can keep the DDR3.

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1 minute ago, PigWithAMustache said:

Haswell is still good, I recommend a 4690k, or one of the i7's if you have more money. And when you upgrade, I recommend updating the bios becuase I see you have an overclocked G3258, and overclocking it isn't possible with the recent BIOS's.

I do have the latest Bios update...should I be looking for something other than the stock asrock bios? that board was built around the g3258.

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12 minutes ago, HayMar said:

I do have the latest Bios update...should I be looking for something other than the stock asrock bios? that board was built around the g3258.

My son has that board with a 4670k and has no problem running at 4.2GHz+.

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