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| 1272060 | 2012-04-25 23:29:00 | Hey all im new here, im looking for suggestions on upgrades. Heres what i currently have -Msi motherboard h55m p33 -I3 3.3ghz -16 gb ram -Winfast GTX 550 ti 1gb -1tb hdd Any suggestions would help greatly! Thanks! |
had Matter (16765) | ||
| 1272061 | 2012-04-25 23:38:00 | What do you want to ugprade for - gaming? If so, get that 550 out of there, should be at least a 560. Productivity workload? The i3 can't cut it, swap it up to at least an i5. | inphinity (7274) | ||
| 1272062 | 2012-04-25 23:40:00 | A good place to start would be letting us know why you want to upgrade and what sort of budget you have. | stormdragon (6013) | ||
| 1272063 | 2012-04-25 23:42:00 | Thank you inphinity for the lightning quick response, Its mostly for gaming But i will Upgrade both based on your response cheers |
had Matter (16765) | ||
| 1272064 | 2012-04-25 23:44:00 | -budget $400 -gaming -video editing -Alot of office work |
had Matter (16765) | ||
| 1272065 | 2012-04-25 23:48:00 | You won't get both upgrades for $400, really, so I would go for GPU first for gaming. A 560Ti should be somewhere around $360 - $400. Then I'd look at the i5-2500 for CPU upgrade, it's probably about $260 - $280, or an i7-2600 for about $400. | inphinity (7274) | ||
| 1272066 | 2012-04-25 23:52:00 | I thought so.. Ill go for the 560ti first this week, then the i5 next month so it wont be to much of a wait. Thanks for all the help |
had Matter (16765) | ||
| 1272067 | 2012-04-26 00:21:00 | I thought so.. Ill go for the 560ti first this week, then the i5 next month so it wont be to much of a wait. Thanks for all the help Im not sure that the 15 over the i3 will be much of an upgrade as both have a stock speed of 3.3Ghz, the main difference is the i5 has 4 cores, the i3 has 2 + 2 logical. The i5 will boot up to 3.8?ghz, so its not that much, and while some new games are starting to use 4 cores, its not that many.... If it were me, depending on your motherboard, I would spend the extra $20 and get the 'K'version of i5 2500, that will allow you to clock the multiplier right up to 4.5 on after market cooling or 4ghz on stock! The below benckmark measures the i3 2100 which runs slower than your 3.3ghz clocked i3 2120.....but still their isnt much in it between that and the cpu you are thinking of buying.... i3 2100 @3.1ghz v i5 3.3ghz www.anandtech.com |
SolMiester (139) | ||
| 1272068 | 2012-04-26 02:24:00 | From the motherboard model you provided, you won't be able to use the i5 2500 as the others recommended, this is due to the fact your motherboard has the older 1156 socket. You'll have difficultly finding a brand new CPU to fit this socket. | stormdragon (6013) | ||
| 1272069 | 2012-04-26 02:29:00 | What's your PSU? careful not to overload it with the beefier graphics card. To reinforce what's been said, for gaming the i3 does very well and you may not notice any difference from upgrading. However you also mention Video editing and for that the quad core will be significantly faster, well except it may not be - if the software uses cuda or quicksync the difference might not be all that much. I'd get the graphics card and see how you go, you may find no reason to upgrade the cpu at this stage. Also if your motherboard doesn't have overclocking features, which I suspect it doesn't, there's really no point considering the K series chips, any i5 will do. If you just want your PC to feel quick in general get an SSD :) edit: Stormdragon is right, you may be stuck with that CPU unless you look for a 2nd hand one. |
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