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yeah i've been in a process of upgrading for a couple months now. recently picked up some new fans and 16gb of ram. my mobo is kind of old though so i would be open to getting a new one
Wait, why would you prioritize 16Gb's of ram over a newer mobo and CPU?
16Gb is p useless unless you work with editing software

But skylake is the future fam, get one.

I regret it so much I bought a super expensive 1150 instead of cheaping a bit out so I can upgrade to 1151 later.
Eh ill go work at mcdonalds I guess

anyone have some good lga1155 processor recommendations? i have an i3-3220 atm and that's pretty much the last thing in my rig that i haven't gotten an upgrade of besides my mobo. I've got like $200 to spend

LGA1155 has pretty much either disappeared from retail or goes for absurd prices.
You can find some good prices on eBay or whatever. Haswell and Skylake are overrated anyways. After overclocking, there isn't much of a performance difference for gaming.
« Last Edit: March 20, 2016, 05:59:39 PM by Alcom1 »

Isnt skylake almost 1/3rd faster then the 4th generation?

LGA1155 has pretty much either disappeared from retail or goes for absurd prices.
You can find some good prices on eBay or whatever. Haswell and Skylake are overrated anyways. After overclocking, there isn't much of a performance difference for gaming.
What about DDR4 support?

Isnt skylake almost 1/3rd faster then the 4th generation?
At its base clock speed, probably. If you're overclocking an Ivy Bridge processor, the performance difference shrinks a lot, and it's not worth the price of a new cpu+mobo+DDR4.

« Last Edit: March 20, 2016, 07:35:38 PM by Alcom1 »

After overclocking, there isn't much of a performance difference for gaming.

large difference in GTA V and Far Cry 4 and decent increases in a couple other games... don't see your point



But skylake is the future fam, get one.

what bout upcoming Kaby-Lake and Cannonlake?

still waiting to see if zen blows everyone the forget out

large difference in GTA V and Far Cry 4 and decent increases in a couple other games... don't see your point
That an upgrade from Ivy Bridge to Skylake doesn't have much value, and won't make much of a difference except for when playing seriously CPU intensive games with a powerful gwafix card.

No idea what page a thread becomes "too old" so 7 page bump for the save.


Also Thrift shops can be a amazing place to find PC stuff, I found a old LGA775 based Core 2 Quad desktop for 20 bucks with a gt 610 and other bonuses inside.

Opened it up to see why it was marked broken, it had two 1GB sticks of DDR2 at 800mhz and one 1GB Stick running at 1020mhz , removed one stick and it booted up properly, also for some reason the HDD was disconnected.

The strange part is all of the components are like new, the GT 610 shows no dust at all, the fans are brand new, the only things that have dust are the stock heatsink and motherboard.

It may be outdated hardware but its better than nothing, I will be upgrading it to 8GBs DDR2 from its stock 2GB (I already brought it up to 4GB), adding an SSD, changing that stock heatsink for something with heatpipes and probably adding my old AMD HD 6670, I'll also probably switch its case since I'm not a fan of the stock oem case it came in.

This is obviously not for me btw, most likely I'll give it to a family member that needs it, like my bro who only has my old pentium machine that I used to host servers on.

im looking to upgrade my ram, i have 8 gigabytes (ddr 3) on windows 10 64 bit, how much more can i upgrade to? can i even upgrade more?
« Last Edit: March 26, 2016, 06:44:37 PM by Niff »

im looking to upgrade my ram, i have 8 gigabytes on windows 10 64 bit, how much more can i upgrade to? can i even upgrade more?
If you buy the same stick you can. And if there are enough RAM slots ofcourse
But seriously, 8Gb is enough for p much everything.

If you buy the same stick you can. And if there are enough RAM slots ofcourse
But seriously, 8Gb is enough for p much everything.
my brother (epicduke) who is going into IT says i need two slots open, i have four slots, is this true?