Hello, I've somewhat decided to pull the trigger on upgrading the rest of my components, just recently upgraded to a 7870 and Samsung 830 SSD few reasons for the upgrade, one being I was playing BF3 and the CPU usage is between 90%-99 specially on 64 player maps with GPU usage at 60-70% with inconsistent FPS it runs fairly smooth but I feel like it could play smoother. Secondly upgrading DDR2 memory to 8 GB(have 4gb) is just too expensive, I'm also pretty sure my Phenom 9950 BE is bottle-necking me.
I have a family member able to pick me up a 3570k at Microcenter up north and ship it to me which is still cheaper than getting it from Newegg or other online retailers. Hate to jump ship from AMD to Intel but for the few extra dollars the performance cant be beat. Another thing is from what I read the LGA 1155 socket is basically dead in regards to more upgrades since Haswell is suppose to be a new socket. If someone can maybe talk me out of getting a Ivy bridge and maybe waiting for Haswell next year granted the rest of my components hold out that long I would consider that.
This is what I'm looking at getting:
i5 3570k
Asus Z77 Sabertooth
Gskil Sniper Low voltage series 8Gb DDR3 1600
CM Hyper 212 Evo
Question regarding the PSU is that its going on 4 years old in a few month haven't had any problems with it, granted it is a quality one but would it be wise to reuse the one I have now with fullboat hardware upgrade ? its still under warranty for 2 more years. I didn't factor in having to maybe buy a new PSU.
This is the PSU I have : http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817703009
Any opinions and insight appreciated!
Orlean
I have a family member able to pick me up a 3570k at Microcenter up north and ship it to me which is still cheaper than getting it from Newegg or other online retailers. Hate to jump ship from AMD to Intel but for the few extra dollars the performance cant be beat. Another thing is from what I read the LGA 1155 socket is basically dead in regards to more upgrades since Haswell is suppose to be a new socket. If someone can maybe talk me out of getting a Ivy bridge and maybe waiting for Haswell next year granted the rest of my components hold out that long I would consider that.
This is what I'm looking at getting:
i5 3570k
Asus Z77 Sabertooth
Gskil Sniper Low voltage series 8Gb DDR3 1600
CM Hyper 212 Evo
Question regarding the PSU is that its going on 4 years old in a few month haven't had any problems with it, granted it is a quality one but would it be wise to reuse the one I have now with fullboat hardware upgrade ? its still under warranty for 2 more years. I didn't factor in having to maybe buy a new PSU.
This is the PSU I have : http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817703009
Any opinions and insight appreciated!
Orlean