Is it worth upgrading my PC now?

[neigenoire]

I have a fairly decent computer (7850 + Phenom II 965), but I'm thinking of upgrading to i5 3470 (not a great fan of OCing) and to a motherboard with sata 3 and USB 3 support. Will probably buy an SSD as well.

I play games from time to time and do some video editing and the intel cpu IMO would be a worthwhile upgrade.

However, this will be a 500$ upgrade and I have other uses for that money. It's not like I HAVE to do it right now. So my question: is it even worth upgrading right now or should I wait some months for a price drop or some new hardware? I'm not really following tek news, but I heard AMD will soon be releasing some powerful CPUs.

 

[Sn1992-1361850]

I have a fairly decent computer (7850 + Phenom II 965), but I'm thinking of upgrading to i5 3470 (not a great fan of OCing) and to a motherboard with sata 3 and USB 3 support. Will probably buy an SSD as well.

I play games from time to time and do some video editing and the intel cpu IMO would be a worthwhile upgrade.

However, this will be a 500$ upgrade and I have other uses for that money. It's not like I HAVE to do it right now. So my question: is it even worth upgrading right now or should I wait some months for a price drop or some new hardware? I'm not really following tek news, but I heard AMD will soon be releasing some powerful CPUs.

1.upgrading now is not worth it as u can wait for haswell series i5 lower than 4670 after a certain time there will be a price drop for sure
2.upgrading and buying an ssd is not an issue u can buy it now for sure or anytime u want
3.amd is do releasing 9xxx series am3+ cpus but those are ver expenxives one the top of the line would be in 900-1000$ range

my advice wud b to wait for the all of the haswell series cpu to release den choose ur pic


hope dis was helpfull
mark the answer best if u felt it war i wud really appreciate it

 

[Maxime506]

Your rig is decent enough. If u feel games loading slow just get a 128gb SSD.

There is rumor that AMD will launch Steamroller CPU in 2014 and there will be great improvement compared with pilediver CPU.

Personally, if u pursue that large games should run some 30+ fps in ultra settings, get a i5-3350p or 3470 with a Z77 mobo and a GTX 760 GPU.

 

[sna]

I have a fairly decent computer (7850 + Phenom II 965), but I'm thinking of upgrading to i5 3470 (not a great fan of OCing) and to a motherboard with sata 3 and USB 3 support. Will probably buy an SSD as well.

I play games from time to time and do some video editing and the intel cpu IMO would be a worthwhile upgrade.

However, this will be a 500$ upgrade and I have other uses for that money. It's not like I HAVE to do it right now. So my question: is it even worth upgrading right now or should I wait some months for a price drop or some new hardware? I'm not really following tek news, but I heard AMD will soon be releasing some powerful CPUs.

The real upgrade is to SandyBridge-e six or four cores Xeons and X79 chipset ... why xeons ? because it is the only Sandy bridge that supports PCIe 3.0

somthing like this

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813188121

and this 4 cores cpu (better than the i7 if you dont want to OC)

http://www.compsource.com/ttechnote.asp?part_no=CM8062101038606&vid=211&src=F




in september the ivybridge-e are coming with 4,6,8,10,12 cores CPU Variants.

 

[neigenoire]

Thank you for the replies.

The only thing I've heard about Haswell is that it promises better battery life for laptops and tablets. Is there any info on how much of an improvement those CPUs will be performance wise?

That Xeon thing looks great, but a tad expensive for me right now.

I had no idea 10 and 12 core CPUs will be available so soon. September is only 2 months away. Crazy!

 

[sna]

Thank you for the replies.

The only thing I've heard about Haswell is that it promises better battery life for laptops and tablets. Is there any info on how much of an improvement those CPUs will be performance wise?

That Xeon thing looks great, but a tad expensive for me right now.

I had no idea 10 and 12 core CPUs will be available so soon. September is only 2 months away. Crazy!

Haswell are low grade cpu , the high grades are the one with "e"

like SandyBridge-e , ivybridge-e

the Haswell are better for notebooks , 50% more battery life and very very good Graphics in chip.

dont expect 8,10,12 cores to be cheap , the 8 cores xeons 3.1Ghz today are at ~$1500

Haswell-e will support DDR4 and coming in 2014

 

[neigenoire]

Okay, I think I will do the upgrade now and perhaps do further upgrades later (if anything better becomes available at a reasonable price). I think it will be worth doing it now as most benchmarks show that i5 3470 is 2x and sometimes 3x better than the Phenom II 965.

Thank you all for the info.

 

[Sn1992-1361850]

Look its ur wish if u wanna upgrade i wud tell u to get haswell series processors dey r the latest and the fastest and in this it world things change very quick olready so why should u buy anything that is not the most latest

But its my personal opinion

If u wanna do it now den its ur wish best f luck bro


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