Upgrade from i7 2600 to i5 4690k?

[azza900]

Hey, ive been thinking of updating my CPU, due to the fact that my i7 doesn't support pci 3 and because of the limited support of 1155 sockets. (honestly i want to make my pc look nicer, hate a bland blue motherboard)

How is performance for gaming, is it about equal or will there be a slight increase switching to the i5 4690k?

Thanks

 

[digitaldoc]

http://cpuboss.com/cpus/Intel-Core-i7-2600-vs-Intel-Core-i5-4690K

Unfortunately, it is not much of an upgrade from Sandy Bridge to Haswell, and dropping from an i7 to an i5 evens it out even further. This would just be burning cash at this point.

 

[loki1944]

http://cpuboss.com/cpus/Intel-Core-i7-2600-vs-Intel-Core-i5-4690K

Unfortunately, it is not much of an upgrade from Sandy Bridge to Haswell, and dropping from an i7 to an i5 evens it out even further. This would just be burning cash at this point.

+1 to what he said.

 

[azza900]

I understand what you guys are saying, that is true. Do you guys know if motherboards for the 1155 sockets are still available (Im in australia) Prefereblly red/black? i cant seem to find any

 

[digitaldoc]

No point in getting a new 1155 MB. It is a dead upgrade path at this point.

 

[azza900]

I just want a new mobo to make my build look physically better

 

[loki1944]

I understand what you guys are saying, that is true. Do you guys know if motherboards for the 1155 sockets are still available (Im in australia) Prefereblly red/black? i cant seem to find any

Not sure if you can order from the US Amazon, guessing your import tax or whatever sucks anyway, but we have a bunch on our amazon http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss_2?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=LGA+1155+motherboard. Otherwise ebay.

 

[Supernova1138]

The i7 2600 is still pretty relevant, if you have the k version and a P67, Z68 or Z77 motherboard, then you can definitely keep it around a lot longer with overclocking. After Sandy Bridge, CPU performance improvements slowed down drastically, and Haswell isn't much faster than Sandy Bridge. PCI-E 3.0 is still pretty much irrelevant unless you're going to buy 2 R9 295x2s or 2 GTX Titan Zs and try to run Quad SLI/Crossfire. No single GPU card, not even the Titan X can fully saturate 16 lanes of PCI-E 2.0.

I'd say at least wait until Skylake comes out later this year before considering an upgrade, moving to Haswell from Sandy Bridge really isn't worth it.

 

[azza900]

Thanks for all the answers guys, one last thing, seeing the i7 2600 dosent support pci 3.0, will it in anyway bottleneck my GPU as its running at pci 2.0 speed

 

[Supernova1138]

As I said above, PCI-E 2.0 will not hold back any single GPU on the market. The only scenario where you would hit a significant bottleneck would be if you were running two high end dual GPU cards for quad SLI or quad Crossfire.

 

[azza900]

Thanks alot!