Ivy or Sandy?

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Artem Molla

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I'm going to build a gaming pc in few months. I don't know what CPU to go with. I'm going to overclock it and it will be used for gaming, may be streaming sometimes. I won't go with Haswell due to terribly high prices in Russia.

Should I go with i5-2550k and ASRock Z68 Extreme4 Gen3 OR i5-3570k and ASRock Z77 Extreme4?

Other specs:
GeForce GTX760 Palit JetStream PCI-E 2048Mb
HIPER V550
8Gb DDR-III 1600MHz Corsair Vengeance (CMZ8GX3M2A1600C9)
Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO
WD Blue 1Tb
Windows 7 Ultimate.


The reason I don't want to go with an Ivy CPU is a bad thermal paste and OC is limited. There is no such a problem with Sandy. I live in Russia and the cost difference is about 25-30$. It's not a lot, but still. If you will recommend me to change the thermal paste, the only one I will use instead of this is Liquid Metal Pro/Ultra. It will cost me 35$. I could put this 60$ in a GPU or 8 more GBs of RAM.

So what would you recommend me to go with?

I will upgrade MB and CPU in ~3 years, adding one more 760.


Sorry for my English. :(
 
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manofchalk
The 212 EVO is fine for an overclock like that, when I used to have one I ran at 4.3Ghz just fine.
VRM heatsinks only really matter if your going to really overclock, to the point where the VRM's become a factor. If you were overclocking to that level, you would want a better motherboard like a Gigabyte Z77X-UD5H.
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Unless you intend to clock beyond ~4.5Ghz, Ivy's heat problems when applying voltage shouldn't really be an issue. Also you should consider performance per clock, at the same clock speed Ivy will outperform Sandy by about 10%.
Go with Ivy.

Also regardless of which you go with, get the Z77 board. They are compatible with both Sandy and Ivy, and have more features.
 
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Artem Molla

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Will I be able to run stable 4.4 GHz 3570k with this cooler? If I went with Sandy, wouldn't ASRock Z68 Extreme4 Gen3 better for overclocking? It has bigger heat sinks.
If I go with 2550k I will overclock it to 4.8-5.0 and 3570k to 4.2-4.4.
 
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The 212 EVO is fine for an overclock like that, when I used to have one I ran at 4.3Ghz just fine.
VRM heatsinks only really matter if your going to really overclock, to the point where the VRM's become a factor. If you were overclocking to that level, you would want a better motherboard like a Gigabyte Z77X-UD5H.
 
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