[Newegg] i5-4690k +MSI Z97S SLI Krait Edition - $305

[SteveGrabowski]

http://www.newegg.com/Product/ComboD...=Combo.2157882

Not too bad a deal to essentially get an SLI Z97 board for $75 with your $230 i5-4690k.

 

[skillyho]

If this was more of an upgrade from my Sandy Bridge I'd bite. Thanks for posting.

 

[qliveur]

Newegg had a deal like this a few months ago for the same price, except the motherboard was an ASUS Sabertooth Mark 2.

Needless to say, I bit.

 

[jacion]

I've been running a 2500K at 4.0 for 3 years now and I'm still wondering when is going to be the time to upgrade.
Might be a good deal for those with lesser systems I would say.

 

[Samus]

I've been running a 2500K at 4.0 for 3 years now and I'm still wondering when is going to be the time to upgrade.
Might be a good deal for those with lesser systems I would say.

I said the same thing for years with my first-gen Core i7 920...ran it for almost 5 years before finally building a haswell, mostly just to get native USB 3.0, SATA 6Gbps and PCIE 3.0.

But sometimes I miss triple channel bandwidth (unraring\ripping DVD's\recompressing video) but this was all before X99. Should have waited just a few more months but the Asus X58 was getting a little long in the tooth and power consumption was quite high, especially with my 3.5GHz overclock.

This is still a great deal though.

 

[killster1]

I said the same thing for years with my first-gen Core i7 920...ran it for almost 5 years before finally building a haswell, mostly just to get native USB 3.0, SATA 6Gbps and PCIE 3.0.

But sometimes I miss triple channel bandwidth (unraring\ripping DVD's\recompressing video) but this was all before X99. Should have waited just a few more months but the Asus X58 was getting a little long in the tooth and power consumption was quite high, especially with my 3.5GHz overclock.

This is still a great deal though.

I think we all in same boat.. when does it really matter for upgrading? everything is so fast already with z77 2500k @4ghz.. I keep seeing deals and diff cpu's am confused what to try get

 

[qliveur]

I said the same thing for years with my first-gen Core i7 920...ran it for almost 5 years before finally building a haswell, mostly just to get native USB 3.0, SATA 6Gbps and PCIE 3.0.

But sometimes I miss triple channel bandwidth (unraring\ripping DVD's\recompressing video) but this was all before X99. Should have waited just a few more months but the Asus X58 was getting a little long in the tooth and power consumption was quite high, especially with my 3.5GHz overclock.

This is still a great deal though.

The chipset was the reason I upgraded, too.

I kept my X58, though, since I learned that it would support a hexacore Xeon. I now use it almost exclusively to shrink videos with Handbrake and as a backup machine.