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eL3ctrozz

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Hello I am wondering if I should upgrade my motherboard from a P8P67 to a Asus P8Z77 reason been the Z77 offering 3.0 PCI-E while my current P67 only offers 2.0 and my GTX 660 run 3.0 compatibility. I will leave the rest of my PC specifications down bellow

Processor: i5 3470
RAM: 16GB 1600 Mhz Corsair Vengance
GPU: GTX 660
SSD: OCZ Agility 3
HDD: 2 x Western Digital Blue 500GB
PSU: 650 Watt Coolermaster GX Lite

Can you just tell me if the upgrade will make a performance increase are not. If not what should I change to make the PC faster.
 
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PCI-E 3.0 will not make your GTX 660 perform any better. In fact not even GTX 780 level cards need PCI-E 3.0. It's more of a futureproofing standard than something needed. If you want better gaming performance get a better graphics card. An SSD is also something that would improve all around general performance but will not make games any faster except loading levels.
 
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If I went for a GTX 770 Would I need to upgrade my motherboard I was disputing if I should
 
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Nope. I have an overclocked 2600K and GTX 780 on a P67 motherboard. No reason at all to upgrade.
 
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One final question you said get an SSD I currently have a OCZ Agility 3 120GB I was reading there isn't much difference between most SSD maybe a few seconds currently I boot Windows 8 up in 19 seconds what SSD can do it in 15?
 
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I wouldn't bother unless you just need more space. I got tired of uninstalling old games to install new ones on my 120GB OCZ Vertex 2 and just upgraded to a 500GB Samsung 840 Evo a few months ago. The Evo is faster and noticeably but not noticeably like going from a hard drive to an SSD was. The speed difference is very small at least in noticeable daily use.

One note is that the Agility 3 was a very failure prone drive but the ones that failed did so right at first so if you have had it a while you should be fine.
 
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