cpu improvement help

Andre Pinto

Honorable
Sep 12, 2013
32
0
10,530
I have a gigabyte p55ud6
and have a i5 661 with stablr oc @3.9
but i want more horse power. Whitch one in the used market should i buy?this is not my primary system so, i dont want to wast too much money and also dont want to change my mobo.
 
Why not take a look at the i5 760? or even the i7 870? Your processor now is about 4-8% better than these 2 processors in single-threaded applications (such as games) but the i7 870 is 79% better in multi-threaded performance and the i5 760 is 42% better in multi-threaded performance.
 
The best processor for socket 1156 is the i7 880 (if I'm wrong correct me, I'm quite sure it is.) and it is very hard to find online and the other processor that is close is the 875k (still hard to find) and in single-threaded programs, the processor is about 2% faster.
Multi-threaded performance of the CPU is better.
In memory-intensive applications, the Intel i7-875K has 78% higher performance.

You've got pretty much all you're gonna get out of socket 1156 for gaming performance. I hope I helped clear some things up.