Upgrading to a Socket 1155 CPU

[spirit]

Hi all,
At the moment I currently have an 1156 Core i5 760 CPU. It's a great CPU and I really like it (I've had it almost a year now) but I am getting a little concerned that the 1156 platform is now kind of obsolete. I'm trying to look around for a new motherboard which supports SATA III (I want it for my SSD) for my i5 760 and I've had a right job trying to find one that does Socket 1156 and SATA III and is still in stock and selling.

So I thought maybe it was time to upgrade my system and get a new CPU and motherboard, as well as some new RAM. On my PC I run virtual machines and do heavy video editing and I have already been advised on these forums to upgrade from 8GB DDR3 to 16GB DDR3 for the RAM. If I were to get a new CPU I'd get either a quad-core i5 or i7 CPU and for the motherboard I'd get myself an ATX form-factor board which supports SATA III. Budget wise I am looking at about £350-400 for the whole thing and for that price I think I can get a Core i5 2500K, an ASUS P8H67 mobo and 16GB RipJawsX 1600MHz DDR3 RAM for £352.94 (inc. VAT). This isn't a bad price but is it worth upgrading from my current setup (my motherboard is a Foxconn H55M-S mATX by the way, it's a terrible board) to this? I could just get an ASUS P7P55D-E motherboard from Amazon for about £115 and the RAM for about £85, and keep my i5 760 and only spend a whisker over £200.

So my question is, would it be worth my while upgrading from my i5 760 to an i5 2500K?

Thanks!

 

[jonnyp11]

i would save the money and grab a sat III controller card.

 

[2048Megabytes]

I don't think so. Wait for Intel to release their next series of processors and then upgrade to Ivybridge in December 2012. If you want to upgrade anything look at different video cards. Your present processor is powerful enough.

 

[spirit]

i would save the money and grab a sat III controller card.

Getting a controller card is not an option. My current motherboard is mATX and I have a dual-slot graphics card (GTS 450) and it covers up my one and only PCIe x1 slot, and I can't find any SATA III cards that fit the old PCI interface, only PCIe x1. It's a rubbish motherboard.

Wait for Intel to release their next series of processors and then upgrade to Ivybridge in December 2012.

Can't wait another year, I'd like to upgrade ASAP as I was going to make the upgrade. My SSD on SATA II is slow so I need to upgrade to SATA III (my SSD is a Crucial M4 128GB by the way).

If you want to upgrade anything look at different video cards.

Yeah I built a machine the other week a GTX 560Ti Twin Frozr II and I really liked the card, but for the time being my GTS 450 is powerful enough I thinhk. I might upgrade when NVIDIA release the next generation of GeForce cards whenever that wil be.