Upgrading CPU advice

[MarioD]

Hi, I wonder if anyone can help me.

 

My computer if around 5 yo now but when I bought it was pretty good:

 

i7 950 3.07MHz LGA 1366 on a P6T DELUXE V2 Mother board

12 GB Ram and a Quadro 4000.

 

I'm a 3D Generalist so I use it with Maya, Cinema 4D, After Effects, etc. and I still feel it's pretty good

 

But I don't want to spend loads of money on a new machine for now and I was wondering if I could upgrade it.

 

I'm thinking of upgrading to 24 GB Ram, and replace my HDD by a nice SSD.

 

But what about the CPU? What are the possibilities and prices? Is it still possible to upgrade? Is LGA 1366 to old?

 

I hope someone can help.

Tks in advance!

 

 

 

 

[Oswin]

what is your ram speed?

[Cereal5]

In order to upgrade your CPU you would have to get a new CPU, motherboard, and RAM because your i believe is a top of the line i7 for that socket. You could consider something like an i7-3770(K) used or 4770(K) used. for new, your options would be either a 4790(K) or 6700(K). the reason I say (K) is because with the K you can overclock, without you cant

[belfouf]

buy  the XEON X5650 (350$)

http://cpu.userbenchmark.com/Compare/Intel-Xeon-X5650-vs-Intel-Core-i7-950/m355vs617

[DisconnectedYT]

I would reccomend an AMD RX480 8GB, Intel Xeon E3-1231 V3 3.4Ghz, Any LGA 1150 Mobo, and 16/32GB of ram.

[MarioD]

1 hour ago, DisconnectedYT said:

I would reccomend an AMD RX480 8GB, Intel Xeon E3-1231 V3 3.4Ghz, Any LGA 1150 Mobo, and 16/32GB of ram.

 I'm considering buying an Intel. When you say "Any LGA 1150 Mobo" do you mean that even if my MB is LGA1136?

 

1 hour ago, Cereal5 said:

 

In order to upgrade your CPU you would have to get a new CPU, motherboard, and RAM because your i believe is a top of the line i7 for that socket. You could consider something like an i7-3770(K) used or 4770(K) used. for new, your options would be either a 4790(K) or 6700(K). the reason I say (K) is because with the K you can overclock, without you cant

 

I really can't spend too much money so upgrading only the cpu would be great. I've found loads of i7 for that socket actually http://processors.specout.com/d/p/LGA-.-1366

 

1 hour ago, belfouf said:

buy  the XEON X5650 (350$) 

 

This looks like a good option I had no idea that I could buy xeon with that socket.  And this way I can add more memory because now 24 is the max.

 

 

Tks for all your replies! It was a great help!