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Hello everyone, I am currently upgrading my motherboard and cpu and would like some advice from you all if you would.

Cosmos ultra tower 2
Gtx 780 Ti
Sabertooth motherboard and 8150 black edition amd processor @ 3.9
corsair 1050 power supply
16 gigs corsair veng ram, @1600
intel ssd
dual radiator liquid cooling loop using ekwb/xspc products for that atm.
Windows 7



I would like to change to an intel processor and better motherboard. I do not need alot of slots for ram and video cards, performance and longevity matter more to me. I would like to spend about $350 on a processor and $200-300 on a motherboard. Any suggestions please? I will be adding a ekwb block for the processor just to stay with the same cooling product company.
 
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With that budget you could get an i7-4770k and Asus Maximus Hero VI. For gaming an i5 is more than enough, but judging by your GPU and such I think that you would be pleased with that setup. It is what I run and am quite happy!
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With that budget you could get an i7-4770k and Asus Maximus Hero VI. For gaming an i5 is more than enough, but judging by your GPU and such I think that you would be pleased with that setup. It is what I run and am quite happy!
 
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What will you be using your rig for? Is it gaming? or will it also be video editing, photoshop, and encoding, multitasking, etc?
If it is for gaming and all the other stuff I mentioned above you necessarily do not need an intel cpu and motherboard.
You can just upgrade to fx 8350 by selling your current cpu. What I am saying is you already have a nice system, and considering your budget your upgrade won't be that high given the performance.
If you go for intel and you will be gaming, video editing, encoding, and using photoshop, then except gaming you will get better performance with fx 8350 than 4670k. And gaming performance will be pretty much equal, sometimes better sometimes less.
All I am saying is if you just game then changing your motherboard and cpu is not worth the money.
But if you really wan't an upgrade than 4770k or 4820k with a nice z87 motherboard seems a better choice than 4670k (except for gaming).
 
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fx 8350 : Can save you a lot of money, pretty much similar to 4670k in gaming and photoshop, better performance in video editing, encoding, multitaksing.
4770k : a worthy upgrade over fx 8150, will give you better performance in almost every task over fx 8350 and 4670k except gaming.
4820k : big brother of 4770k, I think you know what I mean.
4670k : Good option for gaming, but not a worthy upgrade if you also do video editing, photoshop, multitasking, streaming, encoding over fx 8350.
 
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I've looked at the options and my friends and I have came to this same conclusion, thank you.
 
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Thanks for the responses, I am using this for gaming. A small backstory is my pc has had issues from the start and i have replaced everything but these 2 items. If I didnt replace everything already I would go back and just have it looked at by a professional but, here I am just buying 2 new things.
 
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Good luck! :D
 
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