Current Z68 Chipset, Should I upgrade from 2600K to 3770K

mustangman801 · Mar 18, 2013

Hello,

I'm currently using an ASRock Z68 Extreme 4 Gen 3 as my motherboard with an i7-2600K as my CPU. I also have two GTX 580's as my GPUs. I'm wondering if there would be any advantage to upgrading the processor to an i7-3770K. My thought process is this would serve me well down the line when it comes time to upgrade the GPU setup.

In other words will my current system bottleneck, the next generation of PCI-E 3.0 video cards?

lazyboy947 · Mar 18, 2013

the only difference u would see is the %10-15 percent ivy bridge has over sandy bridge, not worth upgrading, doing that upgrade would kind of be like getting a extremem 4 z77 board just because it has pci-e 3.0 and usb 3.0 lol

dudewitbow · Mar 18, 2013

there wouldnt be any real advantage. the gpus are pci-e 2.0 gpus and the cpu gain will be miniscule. relatively, pci-e 3.0 at 8x = pci-2.0 at 16x lane speeds(same with 3.0 4x to 2.0 8x). Switching now would give you little gains, and as for the next generation of cards, how are you going to give us a question about hardware that doesnt even exist yet. Let me grab my magic crystal ball and...

mustangman801 · Mar 18, 2013

dudewitbow :

I should have probably mentioned I'm aware my current gpu setup tops out at PCIE 2.0 so moving to Ivy won't yield any benefit beyond the gains in clock per clock performance. I'm also aware that we don't yet know what the future holds, however we are aware that whatever nVidia or AMD release will be superior to their current product line up; that doesn't take a crystal ball.

If I were to dial it back and assume I were running two GTX Titans in SLI would switching to an Ivy bridge processor show me any benefit beyond the aforementioned CPU improvement. Basically would I benefit by having the ability to use PCIE 3.0 on the latest video cards both now and into the future? OR would staying on Sandy with PCIE 2.0 really hinder my performance?

rolli59 · Mar 18, 2013

No need to upgrade (call it side grade) the CPU, doubt it will bottleneck next gen except maybe dual GPU cards.

lazyboy947 · Mar 18, 2013

There is no beneficial increase for the cost going ivy bridge, if u feel the need wait till hasewell and just completely sell ur z68 and 2600k

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