Upgrading an old CPU?

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Miseryguts

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I currently have an i7 920 DO @3.8Ghz on a X58A-UD3R Motherboard, Noctua NH-D14 Cooler, HyperX Fury 8GB Ram, MSI GTX 970 Twin Frozr, XFX Pro 750 Core 80+
I understand that replacing the Motherboard/CPU for more recent models would probably be better in the long run (money is tight atm.. & I'm terrified of screwing things up) but It's been suggested several times that a XEON X5675 would offer a significant improvement over my 920 and is also a good overclocker which should easily reach 4.0Ghz and beyond.
I'd appreciate the thoughts of people here as apart from replacing a GPU I'm pretty clueless as far as upgrades are concerned.
 
Xeons are for workstations and servers. There's no point in putting it in your desktop.
 
Would the performance that someone on another forum has on his rig ..Intel X5675 Hexa-Core 3ghz @4.4ghz *1.376VCore *1.275QPI *1.88PLL *200mhz BCLK.. not be point enough? he mentions that Xeons are supposed to offer inferior performance when gaming, but that is nonsense and not his experience at all.

I have no clue either way, but am interested to know more.
 
I've been giving this upgrade a lot of thought recently & my main reason for not replacing the mobo/cpu is fear of screwing things up & having to spend a lot more money in fixing the mess I've made.
Having said that I'm coming down on the side of facing my fear and going for an Asus M5A78L-M/AMD FX8350 Black Edition combo as long they would fit in my old case & be compatible with all the other things that have to go back in (below)

Coolermaster CM690 Dominator
HyperX Fury Series 8GB (single channel)
XFX Pro 750w
Noctua NH-D14

Good options? would this motherboard and cpu be good overclockers?
 
The 8350 is only slightly better then the 920. You might want to stay with Intel and go 4790K. Also would get dual channel ram for better performance.
 
johnb35 said:
The 8350 is only slightly better then the 920. You might want to stay with Intel and go 4790K. Also would get dual channel ram for better performance.
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He'd still need a new motherboard because the 920 is socket 1366.
 
Miseryguts said:
I've been giving this upgrade a lot of thought recently & my main reason for not replacing the mobo/cpu is fear of screwing things up & having to spend a lot more money in fixing the mess I've made.
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In all honesty, there's nothing to screw up.
 
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