Bowenac
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Wednesday, February 15, 2017 2:32 AM
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Hello all, long time!!! So I've been thinking about upgrading to Z170/Z270. Mostly for DDR4, and would like to get a NVMe SSD, or maybe it's just an itch lol. Current Build: Would think I could get around $200 for this. Has anyone upgraded from this to z270? What are your thoughts? Is it worth it? Any suggestions on parts? I mostly use my pc these days for work. Web Development, so different IDE's, GIT/SVN, Photoshop... Light gaming. I have an EVGA GTX 970 4GB card. Thanks in advance, and hope everyone has been great.
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Re: Worth upgrading Z77/2500k suggestions?
Wednesday, February 15, 2017 4:22 AM
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Getting the upgrade itch i see. I just upgraded from X58 i7-920 (2.66ghz) to Z270 i7-7700k (4.2ghz) earlier this month. The upgrade was worth it in my opinion. Keep in mind windows 10 is the only official version of windows supported by Kabylake processors. You get more PCI-E lanes, Kabylake processors support 10-bit HEVC decoding, the 4K codec used by Netflix and other streaming services. Skylake processors do not support that codec. Kabylake just released in January, but looks like we could see Intel's eighth-generation, codenamed Coffee Lake, second half of 2017. Rumor is Coffee lake will have a six core cpu. If it requires Z370 motherboard, i don't see mfg being happy about that. They still need to get rid of old Z170 stock and Z270 just came out in Q1.
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Re: Worth upgrading Z77/2500k suggestions?
Wednesday, February 15, 2017 10:29 PM
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Id wait for Vega and Ryzen. Its going to be better and or cheaper to buy and probably force a drop in intel/nvidia's pricing.
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Re: Worth upgrading Z77/2500k suggestions?
Wednesday, February 15, 2017 10:54 PM
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Id wait for Vega and Ryzen. Its going to be better and or cheaper to buy and probably force a drop in intel/nvidia's pricing.
Will have to wait and see if it will be better and if it will offer more PCI-E lanes etc. I was sick of waiting to build a new system, i'm happy with my Kabylake system.
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Re: Worth upgrading Z77/2500k suggestions?
Thursday, February 16, 2017 6:33 AM
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Id wait for Vega and Ryzen. Its going to be better and or cheaper to buy and probably force a drop in intel/nvidia's pricing.
Will have to wait and see if it will be better and if it will offer more PCI-E lanes etc. I was sick of waiting to build a new system, i'm happy with my Kabylake system.
I just sold off my older last gen components before the price is going to drop on them. Im running a 7700 delid in a hadron air with the evga blower 1080 for now. More than enough to push my 1440p IPS Gsync monitor... But Im probably going to swap over to all free sync monitors for all my comps minus the little hadron. Freesync and IPS is def the way to go considering the amount of comps I got... Its still hard to swallow 700 for this monitor. My next builds will probably be AMD/Intel CPUs and AMD GPUs. In hind site I probably should have keep my little 6700k and R9 nano in the little coolermaster 110 I had... But I just finished the hadron air build last month. The only things Im keeping are the HDDs/SSDs, PSU, and Cases. Very anxious for the new stuff to come out.
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Re: Worth upgrading Z77/2500k suggestions?
Thursday, February 16, 2017 7:25 AM
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Id wait for Vega and Ryzen. Its going to be better and or cheaper to buy and probably force a drop in intel/nvidia's pricing.
Will have to wait and see if it will be better and if it will offer more PCI-E lanes etc. I was sick of waiting to build a new system, i'm happy with my Kabylake system.
I just sold off my older last gen components before the price is going to drop on them. Im running a 7700 delid in a hadron air with the evga blower 1080 for now. More than enough to push my 1440p IPS Gsync monitor... But Im probably going to swap over to all free sync monitors for all my comps minus the little hadron. Freesync and IPS is def the way to go considering the amount of comps I got... Its still hard to swallow 700 for this monitor. My next builds will probably be AMD/Intel CPUs and AMD GPUs. In hind site I probably should have keep my little 6700k and R9 nano in the little coolermaster 110 I had... But I just finished the hadron air build last month. The only things Im keeping are the HDDs/SSDs, PSU, and Cases. Very anxious for the new stuff to come out.
I hope AMD new CPU's and GPU's kick you know what. Anything that causes Intel and Nvidia to increase performance and lower prices.
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Re: Worth upgrading Z77/2500k suggestions?
Thursday, February 16, 2017 8:43 AM
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I hope AMD new CPU's and GPU's kick you know what. Anything that causes Intel and Nvidia to increase performance and lower prices.
Yeah I do too/expecting it too. With all the news thats came out it look fairly one-sided for the upcoming year or two. Im a bit sad and disappointed some companies, cough. Dont expand their product portfolios... But thats a discussion for another thread...
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Re: Worth upgrading Z77/2500k suggestions?
Thursday, February 16, 2017 9:33 AM
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Id wait for Vega and Ryzen. Its going to be better and or cheaper to buy and probably force a drop in intel/nvidia's pricing.
Will have to wait and see if it will be better and if it will offer more PCI-E lanes etc. I was sick of waiting to build a new system, i'm happy with my Kabylake system.
Ryzen has at least 36 gen 3 lanes on cpu, but there is some speculation at this point there may be more because of some of the chipset info that came out. Im most likely going amd all the way around this time but im going to wait a little bit past release to see what happens.
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Re: Worth upgrading Z77/2500k suggestions?
Thursday, February 16, 2017 10:53 AM
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You are barely pushing that Z77 board with what you have running in it. That Z77 GD65 board is actually worth a good amount, probably twice as much as your i5 2500K actually... If you sold each part, the motherboard would sell for about $150, processor for $90 and the memory is worth another $35 or so.
I would propose to upgrade your RAM to a 16GB 2400MHz kit and a i7 3770K. The latency on DDR3 2400MHz RAM is so much lower, it surpasses the performance of a lot of DDR4 modules. It would be a pretty good upgrade for not much.
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Re: Worth upgrading Z77/2500k suggestions?
Tuesday, February 21, 2017 2:41 PM
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I wouldn't get an Ivybridge I7, get an i7 2600 or 2700k cpu, they will overclock higher, then again your i5 2500k should do 4.8-5.2 easy.
But as for worth the upgrade, at this point most likely yes its worth it.
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Re: Worth upgrading Z77/2500k suggestions?
Tuesday, February 21, 2017 7:12 PM
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Ivy Bridge is a little bit faster than Sandy Bridge when it comes to clock to clock... So a i7 3770K only needs about 4.7GHz to match the pefromance of a i7 2700K @ 5GHz. Also, you get PCI-E 3.0 lanes over 2.0 lanes on Sandy Bridge, as well as an upgraded memory controller that can handle faster memory.
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