PC upgrade

[minimax1]

Hi people of Nexus

I am building a new PC and i have already purchased the GPU

 

asus gtx 760 directcu ii oc 2GB

 

and RAM

 

2x4 GB G.SKILL RIPJAWS 1600Mhz CL7

 

and i looking for this combination about CPU and MoBo

 

 

i5 4670k with Asus gryphon z87

 

or

 

i7 4820k with GA-X79-UD3

 

some of the above will be bought used with some of them still in guarantee so it depends a bit in availability of the things i have marked in adverts.

 

i would appreciate some opinions about pros and cons of the above combinations

Edited August 1, 2015 by minimax1

[obobski]

Both of the board configurations you've picked are relatively dated - the X79/4820 would probably work with no fuss, but going with a Z87 may require BIOS updates to run Haswell or Haswell Refresh CPUs. Out of curiosity why not just get a Z97 and i5 4690? If you need >4 cores (e.g. you care about more than gaming performance), you'll either have to dump the RAM (2011-3 is DDR4 only), settle for older hardware (like the 4820), or settle for Hyperthreading (like i7-4790). Depending on your budget and what you're after, all of those could be acceptable solutions.

[minimax1]

Both of the board configurations you've picked are relatively dated - the X79/4820 would probably work with no fuss, but going with a Z87 may require BIOS updates to run Haswell or Haswell Refresh CPUs. Out of curiosity why not just get a Z97 and i5 4690? If you need >4 cores (e.g. you care about more than gaming performance), you'll either have to dump the RAM (2011-3 is DDR4 only), settle for older hardware (like the 4820), or settle for Hyperthreading (like i7-4790). Depending on your budget and what you're after, all of those could be acceptable solutions.

i am upgrading for gaming performance

(thinking to replay Skyrim with HDtextures eyecandy mods and ENB, and GTA V and waiting for Fallout 4, etc)

and thinking that in a couple of years instead of the need to upgrade again, just to buy a second (used) GPU for 2xSLI and a nice CPU cooler to overclock.

the above combination (used) are about 300+ euro. i dont know the difference between 2011 and 2011-3 sockets ( i can always cancel my RAM order in the store) but i searched and i saw that i7 4820k and G-X79-UD3 are for 2011 socket.

[obobski]

There are different iterations of 2011 and they are not universally inter-compatible. The modern high-end Intel platform is based around the X99 and 2011-3, and would not support the 4820, nor would the X79 support modern 2011-3 CPUs. For gaming performance I honestly wouldn't bother with 2011 though - the i5-4690 is top of the back along with the "faster" i7 CPUs in most gaming benchmarks, and the i7 chips only really distinguish themselves elsewhere (e.g. multi-threaded rendering and video encoding, where having more than 4 cores helps). Going with 1150 also means no problem for going with DDR3.

 

I would not go with the SLI in lieu of a newer GPU as an upgrade path - in a few years your money would be much better spent on a (at the time) brand new GPU as it will offer better performance. GTX 760 should not have any problems today though, and will probably be fine off into the future as well (it will support DX12, it supports DX9/10/11, its fairly powerful, it still receives driver updates, etc). Pair it up with something like the 4670 or 4690 and you should be good to go.

[minimax1]

There are different iterations of 2011 and they are not universally inter-compatible. The modern high-end Intel platform is based around the X99 and 2011-3, and would not support the 4820, nor would the X79 support modern 2011-3 CPUs. For gaming performance I honestly wouldn't bother with 2011 though - the i5-4690 is top of the back along with the "faster" i7 CPUs in most gaming benchmarks, and the i7 chips only really distinguish themselves elsewhere (e.g. multi-threaded rendering and video encoding, where having more than 4 cores helps). Going with 1150 also means no problem for going with DDR3.

 

I would not go with the SLI in lieu of a newer GPU as an upgrade path - in a few years your money would be much better spent on a (at the time) brand new GPU as it will offer better performance. GTX 760 should not have any problems today though, and will probably be fine off into the future as well (it will support DX12, it supports DX9/10/11, its fairly powerful, it still receives driver updates, etc). Pair it up with something like the 4670 or 4690 and you should be good to go.

Thanks for enlightening me. :smile: