Time to upgrade from 1156?

[Ozark_86]

Hey all -
Desktop running gb p55a-ud4p 1156 socket, i5-750 @ 4.0ghz (oc.. of course!), 4x4gb ram, 670 gtx, corsair sata3 SSD, creative x-fi titanium. Mostly for gaming... occasional transcoding flac -> mp3 is about it for serious stuff. BF3, Blackops 2 are the main games for now. As the mainboard / cpu is a few years old now, would like your opinion if there would be a big performance increase to a newer board with better sata3 support? I'm not sure sata2 vs 3 will result in much real world difference but was also wondering if my mb / cpu is choking my video card or not. Thanks!

 

[aaksheytalwar]

Get Haswell

 

[Deleted member 4644]

I have a similar rig, and I am not sure that Haswell is right for me. I will probably upgrade just for the itch and lower power draw... but I am not impressed with Haswell as a speed upgrade....

 

[jimbob200521]

If power draw is not a real concern for you, I'd stay. Unless you need seconds more speed when encoding or 3 more fps in gameplay, there isn't a big compelling reason to upgrade.

 

[CrackRabbit]

I have a similar rig, and I am not sure that Haswell is right for me. I will probably upgrade just for the itch and lower power draw... but I am not impressed with Haswell as a speed upgrade....

Same here, but I'm going to wait for a solid review of it on production hardware/motherboard before deciding to get one or wait for Broadwell or beyond.
Right now my rig does everything I need it to just fine and I don't see that changing for at least a year or so.

 

[gmaster456]

I wouldn't bother. That setup is till fine for gaming. I doubt haswell will bring you the performance jump you're looking for.

 

[Ozark_86]

Thanks for the suggestions all - I was kind of leaning that way with trying to 'guestimate' using performance charts and benchmarks, but since I'm running my chip way over stock, it's hard to guess.

 

[aaksheytalwar]

Going from a Core i5 760 to Haswell quad is at least 50%+ more FPS in games.

 

[dave_the_nerd]

http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?t=2318094

According to the article linked here... meh.

 

[Bill Brasky]

For gaming, I don't think it's worth it to go i5-750->i5 4750. The ipc alone isn't worth it. I do think i5-750->i7 4770 would make a very nice difference in the video work. Granted, your 750 should be able to handle transcoding just fine, but encoding would see a good bump.

Are you near a Microcenter? If so, I would wait for the haswell bundles.

 

[gevorg]

Power efficiency / heat / fan noise would be my only concerns with the rig in OP. If all of those are acceptable, I would wait for 14nm CPUs. Performance wise, i5-750 is still great.

 

[sm625]

I tried setting my i5-750 to 1.3 GHz just to see how it would run. For the most part it ran just fine, but there was an extra half second of delay when opening most web pages. Kind of annoying but nowhere close to as annoying as surfing on a phone or a tablet. I was able to play a game of league of legends at max settings, but there was a bit of slowdown in the bigger battles. I didnt bother trying it, but I am sure that it would be just fine at about 1.6GHz.

 

[Ozark_86]

I tried setting my i5-750 to 1.3 GHz just to see how it would run.

What was the reason for running it down there? Power / heat saving?

 

[inf64]

For gaming, I don't think it's worth it to go i5-750->i5 4750. The ipc alone isn't worth it. I do think i5-750->i7 4770 would make a very nice difference in the video work. Granted, your 750 should be able to handle transcoding just fine, but encoding would see a good bump.

Are you near a Microcenter? If so, I would wait for the haswell bundles.

I think i5-750->i5 4750 would be a great jump in performance in any case (stock vs stock, OC vs OC etc.). Almost 30% IPC increase and clock increase on top of that should be well worth the upgrade IMO.

 

[tonyfreak215]

No point in upgrading.

I went from a Q9550 at 3.6 to an I7-3770K. I didn't notice much of a difference.

 

[Arkaign]

Keep it, for gaming, i5-750 is a legit quad, and at 4Ghz, more than capable of every current game. At most, toss a PCI express USB 3 card in if you need it. Wait for whatever is after Haswell, which is apparently another extremely mediocre jump (Sandy to Ivy was meh, Ivy to Haswell is meh, even Sandy to Haswell is meh when comparing OC setups). All the improvements are in power/IGP, though AVX may eventually be somewhat useful outside of rare apps eventually (though by that time Haswell will be old hat).

Broadwell-D *should* be the droids we're looking for. Intel can't infinitely release new CPUs with zero upper-end performance gains. Think of air cooling max OC. 5Ghz 2700k vs. 4.5Ghz-4.6Ghz 3770k. Which wins? Who cares, it's so close it's pointless. It looks to be the same with 4770k now.

So yeah, keep on keepin on with that 750. Upgrade $ much better spent elsewhere, 840 Pro SSD, 8 or 16GB DDR3-1866 or better, better GPU, better monitor, anywhere but CPU.

 

[*kjm]

I have a similar rig, and I am not sure that Haswell is right for me. I will probably upgrade just for the itch and lower power draw... but I am not impressed with Haswell as a speed upgrade....

I have the 860 also and not jumping on it.....

 

[biostud]

I've a similar setup and have been wondering the same, but as long as I don't have any games I can't play I just can't justify the upgrade.