Pentium G860 upgrade without switching to Haswell

curly0ne · Sep 29, 2014

Hi guys. Need a bit of advice on the subject. I have an H77 motherboard with Pentium G860 and Radeon HD7770. And actually those are doing pretty cool. But I'd like to avoid changing my MB in the nearest, lets say, 3-4 years.

So my question is whether smth like i3-3240 can provide this desirable performance margin assuming I don't do heavy gaming or I should go for an i5.

Thanks in advance.

P.S. I guess the Assassin's Creed series is going to remain the most hardware intensive amongst my gaming interests.

inerax · Sep 29, 2014

You would see big gains. That is a couple tiers above what you have now.

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/gaming-cpu-review-overclock,3106-5.html

Wolfshadw · Sep 29, 2014

It would be easiest for us if you could provide the actual motherboard model number, amount of RAM currently installed, and an upgrade budget.

-Wolf sends

Karsten75 · Sep 29, 2014

I don't think you'll see much improvement in that upgrade. The major capability upgrade between the pentium and the i3 are that the i3 hyperthreads it's cores and is about 10% faster in single-threaded execution.

http://ark.intel.com/compare/65690,53492

ALso, copy and paste the following link, if you click it, it will be truncated.

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logainofhades · Sep 29, 2014

You want it to last 3-4 years, if your motherboard supports it, get a Xeon 1230v2. Basically an i7 3770, without the IGP, for about the cost of an i5 3570k.

Just need that motherboard model to make sure. I would recommend a GPU upgrade at some point too. The HD 7770 is at the low end of gaming cards. I would wait and see how things shake up, price wise, once the GTX 960 comes out for GPU upgrade.

curly0ne · Sep 29, 2014

Thanks for all the replies by now.

Wolfshadw :

logainofhades :

MB: Gigabyte H77-DS3H
RAM: 8GB running @1333Mhz

A budget is not such an issue but rather relevance of a possible upgrade. So far I'm not planning to upgrade my GPU, but I'd like to have a CPU which can provide some space for improvement. Thanks.

logainofhades · Sep 29, 2014

Your board does support the 1230v2. It is really the best chip/$$ for your board.

Wolfshadw · Sep 29, 2014

I can't argue with loginofhades' recommendation of the Xeon 1230v2 or for $30 more, the Xeon 1240v2. Those would probably give the longevity you're looking for.

-Wolf sends

curly0ne · Sep 29, 2014

Well, somewhat unexpected answer

I haven't ever considered Xeons, but this one seems to be a really good choice. For the sake of understanding could you please explain why not one of mainstream i5s for instance.

logainofhades · Sep 29, 2014

Because you get i7 performance for an i5 price, with the fact of how long you want to keep your current system.

curly0ne · Sep 29, 2014

Thanks a lot, I'll definitely rely on your and Wolfshadw's advices. Cheers.

Wolfshadw · Sep 29, 2014

The only real downside to the Xeon processors are the lack of an integrated graphics solution. If your graphics card ever fails, your system is down until you can replace it.

-Wolf sends

curly0ne · Sep 29, 2014

Yeah, I'll take it into account as well. Thanks one more time.

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