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am I really going to see a difference other than much faster boot up time, going from 12 Gb of ram to 16 Gb, and a more energy efficient PC?
Prestige Worldwide wrote:I recently upgraded from an i5-750 Lynnfield to an i7 3820 SB-E and it felt like a pretty huge jump in windows responsiveness and overall smoothness in games. I'd expect you'd see a similar jump coming from Bloomfield to Haswell.
If you have the money, DO IT
Prestige Worldwide wrote:I recently upgraded from an i5-750 Lynnfield to an i7 3820 SB-E and it felt like a pretty huge jump in windows responsiveness
flip-mode wrote:OP has never stated what the computer is used for. Absent that, here's my opinion:
1) If you /want/ to upgrade just because you like shiny new things, go ahead.
2) If you use your computer to make money and you find yourself waiting on you computer, go ahead.
3) If neither of the above, then no, don't, it's not worth it. While a i5 4670 or i7 4770 will be faster, your i7 950 still offers plenty of performance, even more so if overclocked at all.
Nec_V20 wrote:I will probably stick with what I have until the CPU dies.
just brew it! wrote:Nec_V20 wrote:I will probably stick with what I have until the CPU dies.
Unless you're running the CPU massively overclocked, the motherboard will almost certainly die first. At which point you'll have the option of scrounging a replacement motherboard on the second-hand market, or upgrading. As I'm sure you are well aware, CPUs generally become obsolete long before they die of old age (provided they are run within spec).
Prestige Worldwide wrote:For a more noticeable increase in gaming performance, I would just drop in a more recent GPU. GTX 770/780 or a 7970 depending on the colour of Kool-aid you prefer.
Nec_V20 wrote:I'm well aware of that - I have had a couple of boards die on me over the years - and I was speaking metaphorically with regard to the CPU. For instance I may decide to change when DDR4 RAM becomes mainstream. That being said I don't anticipate a large problem in replacing the motherboard I have for some time.
The point I was trying to make was that I don't anticipate any CPU bottlenecks becoming a problem for me any time in the near future (next two years).
just brew it! wrote:Nec_V20 wrote:I'm well aware of that - I have had a couple of boards die on me over the years - and I was speaking metaphorically with regard to the CPU. For instance I may decide to change when DDR4 RAM becomes mainstream. That being said I don't anticipate a large problem in replacing the motherboard I have for some time.
The point I was trying to make was that I don't anticipate any CPU bottlenecks becoming a problem for me any time in the near future (next two years).
I don't really see DDR3 vs. DDR4 RAM making a big difference either, unless CPU & mobo vendors decide to bump the number of memory channels coincident with the transition to DDR4.
Edit: I actually stuck with DDR2 for quite some time after DDR3 became mainstream. By then I had a fair bit invested in DDR2 DIMMs and motherboards across multiple systems; AMD's Phenom II CPUs could use either platform (AM2+/DDR2 or AM3/DDR3); and most applications aren't all that sensitive to raw DRAM bandwidth anyway. So I didn't see much point.
Nec_V20 wrote:just brew it! wrote:Nec_V20 wrote:I'm well aware of that - I have had a couple of boards die on me over the years - and I was speaking metaphorically with regard to the CPU. For instance I may decide to change when DDR4 RAM becomes mainstream. That being said I don't anticipate a large problem in replacing the motherboard I have for some time.
The point I was trying to make was that I don't anticipate any CPU bottlenecks becoming a problem for me any time in the near future (next two years).
I don't really see DDR3 vs. DDR4 RAM making a big difference either, unless CPU & mobo vendors decide to bump the number of memory channels coincident with the transition to DDR4.
Edit: I actually stuck with DDR2 for quite some time after DDR3 became mainstream. By then I had a fair bit invested in DDR2 DIMMs and motherboards across multiple systems; AMD's Phenom II CPUs could use either platform (AM2+/DDR2 or AM3/DDR3); and most applications aren't all that sensitive to raw DRAM bandwidth anyway. So I didn't see much point.
I got there a bit earlier than you Back in the day I stuck with my Harris 25MHZ 286 and completely gave the 386 generation (AMD and Intel) a miss. My 286 at the time ran what I needed faster than the 33MHz 386 and the next system I built for myself was based on a 486 DX50.
You're showing your age here man. I think your comment will be lost on 90% of our readers.
I don't think I had my first PC until the early 90s. I wasn't a PC "enthusiast" until maybe 98.
I have Starcraft to blame for that one. Also the Internet. I'm 26, in case you're wondering.
just brew it! wrote:Well, if we want to go all the way back to first computers, mine was an IMSAI. 8-bit all the way, baby! I was actually a little late jumping on the IBM PC bandwagon as a result (didn't have my own PC compatible system until around the time of the PC/AT).