I am a little behind the curve when it comes to my rig, and so I'd like your thoughts. Last year I did a major overhaul by replacing my GPU with a 970GTX, upping my RAM to 12 GB, and adding a 500GB Samsung 850EVO SSD. But I am still running my old i7 930 (over clocked to 3.6 GHZ) and mobo combo from back in 2010. Does it make sense for me to look at a 6700k, or does my current system still have legs in it?
If you have the money to burn its a decent choice but tbh I wouldn't do it considering how decent the 930 still is.
Believe it or not its still kickin. You should wait and save up some more. 6700k is still a quad-core. I would go X99 and 5820k six-core route if you really want to upgrade.
I had that exact X58 board you do. Why not get a X5650 or X5670 6 core and overclock the piss out of it. I had my X5650 6 core @ 4.5ghz with just a H100. It destroyed my 950 I had @ 4.1. The Xeon @ 4.5 is just as fast as my 3930k at stock speeds that boost to 3.8ghz. Ofcourse new cpu have a better ipc for single core performance that also helps in threaded situations but gettings a X5650 for under $80 is a great upgrade without spending a crap load for a new rig. When I had the X58 setup with X5650 and a R9 290.
Hi there I would upgrade CPU as above Agonist recommends,I would go down the route of the X5670 or X5690 CPU which can be bought over on eBay for reasonable money. I'm running same MB like you are running and I've X5670 which I've OC to 4.2GHz and right now I'm on 1.25v and running H100i with Noctua NF-F12 fans which are set at 40% and temps under heavy load never been higher than 62C And if its worth to upgrade over i7-9xx its well worth to upgrade and you will love yours PC again and regarding running more RAM,I'm running 32GB without the problems,you can in theory run 48GB with Xeon,I've tried only to run 40GB(4X8GB and 2x4GB),but I reverted to 32GB as those 2x4GB RAM has been only 1333MHz and those RAM has been unstable over 1400MHz Only thing which is missing on X58 is proper SATA 3 port,not those poor SATA 3 ports which are on Gigabyte and second bit which is missing for me is AVX,but all in all is well worth to upgrade to X5670 or X5690 Xeon CPU What BIOS are you now running ? Hope this helps Thanks,Jura
Hi there On this BIOS I'm not sure,do you have UD3R Rev 1.0 or Rev 2.0? But in all cases,yours motherboard supports 32mm CPU and then upgrade to Xeon X5670 or X5690 will be very easy and will be supported OOB(Out of the box) without the updating BIOS Hope this helps Thanks,Jura
Hi there I don't think you will need to update BIOS,can you check on Gigabyte website which one is latest one as I'm running F6 on Rev 1.0 and I didn't have any issue with mine In yours case I would suspect you should be OK without the updating BIOS,previously I've run too on Asus P6T SE without the updating BIOS X5670 Hope this helps Thanks,Jura
