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I have a Sandy Bridge i7-2600K and I'm thinking of getting the 4770K but I'm not sure if it's worth it. Currently, I'm on the Asus P8Z77-V with my CPU @ 4.7 GHz (liquid cooled). I use it for gaming and I'm very happy with it. I have 2 gtx 660 Ti's in SLI and it tears through my games. I have 2 1920x1080 monitors. I wonder if it would be worth it to upgrade to the 4770K or would my money be better spent on a new graphics card? Also, I wonder if having the SB i7 is bottlenecking new graphics cards at all because it runs PCI 2.0.
 
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MUCH better spent on new GPU's. If you wouldn't upgrade to IB, then don't bother upgrading to Haswell. Your processor is a great one, but your GPU's are the ones that could use more work; perhaps sell them and buy two 770's.
And no, SB shouldn't bottleneck anything, especially with it OC'ed like that. :)
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MUCH better spent on new GPU's. If you wouldn't upgrade to IB, then don't bother upgrading to Haswell. Your processor is a great one, but your GPU's are the ones that could use more work; perhaps sell them and buy two 770's.
And no, SB shouldn't bottleneck anything, especially with it OC'ed like that. :)
 
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I would wait a little more for some reasons:

1) IB and Haswell are 7% away on performance, that's a good number for the price. SB and IB are very similar, except that SB run more cooler than IB.
2) Haswell is really, really new and ew don't know if have problems (like run hooter as haswell, or USB problems like SB)
 
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