Upgrade Options from i5 750 & P7P55 LX

[jimmygeenz]

Hi, looking for a bit of advice.

Current setup:
Cpu: i5 750 2.67Ghz (non-OC)
MB: ASUS P7P55 Lx
Ram: Kingston 16gb DDR3 (2x8gb) (upgraded recently from 6gb)
GPU: Sapphire Dual-X R9 270x 2gb (upgraded from HD 5770 1gb)
SSD: Samsung Evo 250gb (OS drive and some games that benefit. Upgraded from 1TB HDD)
HDD: 2TB Seagate (majority of games and data storage)
Case: Thermaltake m9
PSU: Thermaltake litepower 650w

Bought it new in 2010 and it still serves me well. A few critical upgrades over time - SSD and GPU. It runs all games that I play, although not on ultra or extremely high settings. Primary games lately - Elite Dangerous, GTA V, Dota 2, Arma 3. Just purchased a new Corsair Graphite 230T case as my old one has a cracked side window.

I am looking for opinions on upgrading the CPU and MB? I understand you can get good overclocks from a i5 750 - never done it before and would need to get a new cooler as currently on stock. Better to do this or new CPU?

If I upgrade the CPU and MB - should I go for the new Skylark or will a Haswell do?

Any other tidbits of advice would be much appreciated.

Cheers,

 

[NerdyComputerGuy]

Hi,

I would recommend getting the motherboard 'Asrock Z170 Extreme4' and the new Intel i7 6700k sky-lake processor. I am going to use these for my builds, the board supports both crossfire and SLI and is relatively cheap.

You could even get the Haswell i7 4690k which has about the same performance as the i7 6700k, an 1150 mobo would probably be cheaper as well except you wouldn't get the SLI compatibility although you have an AMD card so it doesn't really matter.

Also, a drawback with the 1151 boards (skylake), most if not all of them only support DDR4 memory modules and these are not backwards compatible so you would need to buy a new pair of 'DDR4' memory sticks since your DDR3 sticks won't work on the board.

 

[jimmygeenz]

Hi,

I would recommend getting the motherboard 'Asrock Z170 Extreme4' and the new Intel i7 6700k sky-lake processor. I am going to use these for my builds, the board supports both crossfire and SLI and is relatively cheap.

You could even get the Haswell i7 4690k which has about the same performance as the i7 6700k, an 1150 mobo would probably be cheaper as well except you wouldn't get the SLI compatibility although you have an AMD card so it doesn't really matter.

Also, a drawback with the 1151 boards (skylake), most if not all of them only support DDR4 memory modules and these are not backwards compatible so you would need to buy a new pair of 'DDR4' memory sticks since your DDR3 sticks won't work on the board.

Thanks for your feedback.

I won't look down the Skylake avenue as I don't want to spend on upgrading to DDR4 memory.

Looking at a cpu upgrade - i5 4690k or i7 4790k?

I understand for gaming the i5 is fine will be fine, and certainly for the foreseeable future.

Additionally - what motherboard should I look it. Do I need a Z97 motherboard - not sure if I will overclock, unlikely I will.