Upgrade to Sandy/Ivy or Stick with OC'ed i5 760

[orbster556]

Hey All:

I am currently running an i5 760 @ 4GHz and have no headaches with stability and no problem with performance. As well, my GPU is an EVGA 670. I don't do any video editing or the like and the only process-intensive task for which I use the rig is gaming.

I was planning to purchase an additional 670 at some point in the future and was wondering whether I should upgrade my CPU now so that whenever I do get the additional card I'm not bottlenecking the cards.

I have two quick questions I was hoping you all might be willing to address:

1) From the little I have read, it would seem that Ivy is not the easiest proc to OC so I'm leaning towards going Sandy even though the stock performance of Ivy is superior. Do you think this is a sound approach?

2) Do you think if I move to 670 SLI I actually will be bottlenecking the cards or will the performance of my OC'ed i5 760 be sufficient? Would it be more prudent to wait until Haswell is released towards the middle to end of 2013?

Thanks, in advance, for any insight or advice you all might be willing to provide.

Regards,

 

[Arkaign]

I say wait. If you had the dual-core 650 or whatever that was, I'd say upgrade, but a 760@4Ghz is more than fine for anything currently.

What resolution are you using? I'd say wait on the GPU as well, unless you're running 2560x1440 or 2560x1600.

I know that's a boring answer, but that's the truth. I have a GTX670FTW 2GB on 1920x1200 (now with 4.7Ghz 2700K), and there's absolutely nothing that I feel needs to be faster. With a better monitor I'd need more GPU grunt though.

 

[lehtv]

1) No, because the performance per clock makes up for it unless you're going for extreme clocks. Ivy also consumes less power. In addition you will want PCIe 3.0 especially for running x8/x8 which will be equal to 2.0 x16/x16.

2) Depends on your gaming resolution. On 1080p, definitely, but then again I don't see how 670 SLI could be justified on 1080p.

 

[TakeNoPrisoners]

Sure you might see a bottleneck with GTX 670s SLI but you will be running everything at 100fps anyway so you wouldn't care.

 

[Ketchup]

Wait for Haswell, and deal with the minimal bottleneck if you get the 2nd 670 before then.

Haswell is going to have the performance boost. Ivy was mainly just there to decrease the die.

 

[Jodiuh]

i5 760 ok for 780 in bf3!?