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so its that time again to upgrade some parts 

but not sure as to what to ask for old parts 

cpu          2600k 5ghz stable at 1.38v

msi          mainboard msi p67a-g45

ram         2x4 8gig kingston hyper x DDR3 1600

cooling    coolit ECO

Two EVGA GeForce GTX560Ti 448 Core CLASSIFIED ULTRA

was thinking of $550 for all 

 

 and what about my rebuild 

EVGA 132-SE-E775-RX LGA 2011 

 

Intel Core i7-4820K

 

G.SKILL Ripjaws Z Series 8GB (4 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600

$550.00 

Edited by jdm_freek
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Yeah, even IF you change to a six core over the 4 core i7 (To me the only real reason to go 2011) the improvement is going to be small and the wallet is going to be empty.  If you've waited this long may as well wait until June/Julyish and get Haswell-E and enjoy DDR4 and a platform that's not just as outdated as yours. Let's be honest here the X79 only has two native 6Gbps SATA ports, zero native USB 3.0... and the add in options being used for those are not the greatest with a few exceptions (That eVGA board and my GA-X79-UP4 are NOT exceptions).  Because of that if I was going quad core I would go Haswell and then I wouldn't want to because there just isn't much to gain.  

 

Don't fall into the trap of shinny hardware like me (unless I'm the one selling it to you)

 

EDIT: btw, all of that applies to CPU stuff only, I would put the money towards a nice new GPU and call it a day, maybe more memory, I like memory. Even if I rarely get near 8GB of usage.

Edited by cchalogamer

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