Upgrading from i7 920 to i7 960

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saikedo

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Hi, I have a fully upgraded pc with 2 gtx titans and with everything else. The only old part that I kept is my i7 920 cpu. Right now I cant afford to buy a new motherboard and a new cpu so I was thinking to upgrade to i7 960 which is about 90$ and uses the same socket. Will this upgrade show some significant difference? Is it worth doing? Thanks.
 
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Difference between overclocking and simply replacing the 920 with a 960 is actually nothing. You can easily run a 920 at 960 frequencies. So not sure how the difference would be less. Plenty of i7-900 series that were running above 4Ghz when they were commonplace.

i7-960 at stock is considered a tier 2 processor by Tom's. General rule of thumb is to not replace a component until there is at least a three tier difference.

I can personally say from experience that upgrading from an i7-950 to an i7-4770k had practically no effect on frame rates.
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I would stick with your 920. The only major difference is the clock speed, and the 920 is overclockable anyways. You may want to take out a titan until you get something like a 4770K as the CPU may overheat quite a bit trying to keep up with both titans.
 
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Difference between overclocking and simply replacing the 920 with a 960 is actually nothing. You can easily run a 920 at 960 frequencies. So not sure how the difference would be less. Plenty of i7-900 series that were running above 4Ghz when they were commonplace.

i7-960 at stock is considered a tier 2 processor by Tom's. General rule of thumb is to not replace a component until there is at least a three tier difference.

I can personally say from experience that upgrading from an i7-950 to an i7-4770k had practically no effect on frame rates.
 
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