Couple questions regarding a CPU/Mobo swap.

[Coldplasma819]

Hey everyone, I have a couple questions regarding replacing my CPU and motherboard. I built my computer in '11 and since I just got into serious PC gaming then, I received help from my friend when building for the first time. It's been all down-hill from there and I strive to get the best possible gaming experience. With the recent release of Battlefield 4, ive been spending most of my time on that and ive come to realize that my processor just isnt able to put up with the task.

Right now I have the AMD Phenom II X6 1100t ~3.3 Ghz 6 core, with 18 gigs of ram and a EVGA Geforce GTX 760 SC 4gb ram w/ acx cooling, on a MSI 890FXA-GD70. Now two years ago, that processor and mobo were supposedly top notch. (I updated my GPU a couple weeks ago.)

With the current processor, ive tried using the onboard OC genie dial which allows fast OC'ing but it just doesnt seem to be enough. What im asking is, would the switch over to an Intel CPU be worth it? I was thinking about getting an i5 considering the i7's are a little pricey. Ive spent a couple days already on PCPartPicker picking different motherboards and CPU's as possibilities with all my other PC parts plugged in for compatibility purposes.

My other question is, since I have an EVGA Geforce GTX 760, or dedicated graphics card, I presume, do I have to worry about the CPU having integrated graphics or not? Or the motherboard having onboard video? I never really had to deal with this kind of information or possible hardware conflict, so im kind of in the grey.

Right now im looking at these two pieces as possibly purchasing in the near future: Intel Core i5 3570k on a MSI Z77 MPOWER.

Edit: I should mention that I dont want to overclock as I dont want to have to deal with scenarios such as inadequate heating or hardware failure. In this situation, im only overclocking my AMD processor as a last ditch effort to smooth things out, but no dice.

 

[beyondlogic]

Hey everyone, I have a couple questions regarding replacing my CPU and motherboard. I built my computer in '11 and since I just got into serious PC gaming then, I received help from my friend when building for the first time. It's been all down-hill from there and I strive to get the best possible gaming experience. With the recent release of Battlefield 4, ive been spending most of my time on that and ive come to realize that my processor just isnt able to put up with the task.

Right now I have the AMD Phenom II X6 1100t ~3.3 Ghz 6 core, with 18 gigs of ram and a EVGA Geforce GTX 760 SC 4gb ram w/ acx cooling, on a MSI 890FXA-GD70. Now two years ago, that processor and mobo were supposedly top notch. (I updated my GPU a couple weeks ago.)

With the current processor, ive tried using the onboard OC genie dial which allows fast OC'ing but it just doesnt seem to be enough. What im asking is, would the switch over to an Intel CPU be worth it? I was thinking about getting an i5 considering the i7's are a little pricey. Ive spent a couple days already on PCPartPicker picking different motherboards and CPU's as possibilities with all my other PC parts plugged in for compatibility purposes.

My other question is, since I have an EVGA Geforce GTX 760, or dedicated graphics card, I presume, do I have to worry about the CPU having integrated graphics or not? Or the motherboard having onboard video? I never really had to deal with this kind of information or possible hardware conflict, so im kind of in the grey.

Right now im looking at these two pieces as possibly purchasing in the near future: Intel Core i5 3570k on a MSI Z77 MPOWER.

Edit: I should mention that I dont want to overclock as I dont want to have to deal with scenarios such as inadequate heating or hardware failure. In this situation, im only overclocking my AMD processor as a last ditch effort to smooth things out, but no dice.

To answer your question most onboard video will disable when a gpu is inserted into the pci slot so dont worry about it

i5 3570k is decent and will game much better but if future proofing

go to intel 1150 haswell which will give you one more future upgrade to jump too broadwell

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819116898

 

[Coldplasma819]

Hey everyone, I have a couple questions regarding replacing my CPU and motherboard. I built my computer in '11 and since I just got into serious PC gaming then, I received help from my friend when building for the first time. It's been all down-hill from there and I strive to get the best possible gaming experience. With the recent release of Battlefield 4, ive been spending most of my time on that and ive come to realize that my processor just isnt able to put up with the task.

Right now I have the AMD Phenom II X6 1100t ~3.3 Ghz 6 core, with 18 gigs of ram and a EVGA Geforce GTX 760 SC 4gb ram w/ acx cooling, on a MSI 890FXA-GD70. Now two years ago, that processor and mobo were supposedly top notch. (I updated my GPU a couple weeks ago.)

With the current processor, ive tried using the onboard OC genie dial which allows fast OC'ing but it just doesnt seem to be enough. What im asking is, would the switch over to an Intel CPU be worth it? I was thinking about getting an i5 considering the i7's are a little pricey. Ive spent a couple days already on PCPartPicker picking different motherboards and CPU's as possibilities with all my other PC parts plugged in for compatibility purposes.

My other question is, since I have an EVGA Geforce GTX 760, or dedicated graphics card, I presume, do I have to worry about the CPU having integrated graphics or not? Or the motherboard having onboard video? I never really had to deal with this kind of information or possible hardware conflict, so im kind of in the grey.

Right now im looking at these two pieces as possibly purchasing in the near future: Intel Core i5 3570k on a MSI Z77 MPOWER.

Edit: I should mention that I dont want to overclock as I dont want to have to deal with scenarios such as inadequate heating or hardware failure. In this situation, im only overclocking my AMD processor as a last ditch effort to smooth things out, but no dice.

To answer your question most onboard video will disable when a gpu is inserted into the pci slot so dont worry about it

i5 3570k is decent and will game much better but if future proofing

go to intel 1150 haswell which will give you one more future upgrade to jump too broadwell

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819116898

Don't the 4th generations run a little hotter than usual though? And after doing some research, it seems Haswell does a little worse than ivy bridge. Haswell runs with a higher power consumption, and doesnt have hyperthreading.

 

[IRONBATMAN]

I disagree. Where did you hear that from ? Intel's 4th Gen Haswell CPUs main difference between the Ivy-Bridge ones is the lower power consumption.

 

[Coldplasma819]

I disagree. Where did you hear that from ? Intel's 4th Gen Haswell CPUs main difference between the Ivy-Bridge ones is the lower power consumption.

Not according to PCPartPicker. i7 3770 comes in at 77watts where as the i5-4670 takes 84 watts.

 

[IRONBATMAN]

You only compared 2 ? Compare all . The i7 is a different case. If you want a cheap unlocked Intel CPU, checkout the i5-2500K or the i7-2600K

 

[con635]

Wait and see how the mantle patch works out if all your playing bf4, should be weeks now, supposedly removes cpu bottlenecks, though all we've seen is marketing.

 

[Coldplasma819]

Wait and see how the mantle patch works out if all your playing bf4, should be weeks now, supposedly removes cpu bottlenecks, though all we've seen is marketing.

I have a Nvidia Geforce GTX 760. Mantle will support AMD Graphics cards, and MAYBE in the future (next year) intel and nvidia units.

I also want to upgrade as I will be playing other games as well next year like Titanfall and the new Diablo 3 expansion.

 

[Coldplasma819]

You only compared 2 ? Compare all . The i7 is a different case. If you want a cheap unlocked Intel CPU, checkout the i5-2500K or the i7-2600K

But the thing is is that I wont want to overclock. The i5-2500k only gets 3.3 or 3.7Ghz with turbo boost, i7-2600k gets 3.4 or 3.8Ghz with turbo boost. Both of those products are above $300 as well.