New upgrade to Intel

grimmjow660 · Jun 14, 2014

I'm upgrading from an FX 8350 to Intel because I want more power while I game, and I hear intel is better, faster, and more powerful. So is this a good motherboard for the i7 4770k?
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813132118&cm_re=lga_1150_motherboard-_-13-132-118-_-Product

Also here's my current build
AMD FX 8350 with this as the motherboard http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813131942&cm_re=amd_am3%2b-_-13-131-942-_-Product

ksham · Jun 14, 2014

The FX-8350 is still a very good chip. I wouldn't waste money upgrading it to an i7-4770K without a really good reason. Just a waste of money there. I would first upgrade the motherboard because the one you have is weak. And from there, upgrade the graphics card with the leftover money.

grimmjow660 · Jun 14, 2014

ksham :

I forgot to list that I have a GTX 770 right now. How is the motherboad weak?

ksham · Jun 14, 2014

4+1 VRMs and no heatsink. Weak may have the wrong word there. The motherboard is more on the low-end spectrum compared to your high-end FX-8350.

grimmjow660 · Jun 14, 2014

ksham :

Ah, I still feel as if I'm going to buy a new motherboard, I might as well go intel. What do you think about that motherboard and intel processor I picked?

leeb2013 · Jun 14, 2014

grimmjow660 :

I would first check if the CPU is holding you back. Run openhardwaremonitor and see if it's at 100% usage or cores are maxing out when gaming. If it's not then something else is limiting fps.

ksham · Jun 14, 2014

They work. If it's for gaming, the i7 is a waste of money because the i5 will offer almost the same results. The main difference is that the i5 does not have Hyper-Threading. If that's where you want to spend your money, go for it. I do not advice it because you don't gain much performance increase and you may later find that spending that $400+ to be rather disappointing.

leeb2013 · Jun 15, 2014

ksham :

Not necessarily, I replaced my 4.4ghz I5-3570k with a 3.4ghz xeon E3 1230 (I7) because it performs much better in recent aaa games (and also lots of other stuff too). Plus it was cheaper than the I5-3570k

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