Worth upgrading an OC'd 2500k just for PCIe 3.0?

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KingEojj

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Hey whats up
I'm currently using a pice 3.0 compatible gpu (hd 7950) with my 2500k @4.7ghz
I'm currently in the process of upgrading to 760 SLI and I'm wondering if its worth the money to upgrade to like a 3770k just for the 3.0
The only reason I havent switched to Ivy bridge so far is because my sandybridge i5 chip is good and I have a nice high stable OC and the benches for the Ivybridge chips just didnt seem worthwhile to upgrade to at the time.

Also getting that same OC on an ivybridge chip would mean I'd probably need some water or a way nicer air cooler than my CM Evo.

I don't think the i5 is anywhere near being a bottleneck in my system espeically for the 760 sli setup but I could be wrong?

Everything is sitting on a ASUS P8Z68-vPro/Gen3
 
The 7950 is better or at least just as good as a 760 so why not get a second?

And i do believe pcie 3.0 has a slight advantage with the 7970 and 680 on CAD style programs
 
jonnyp11 said:
The 7950 is better or at least just as good as a 760 so why not get a second?

And i do believe pcie 3.0 has a slight advantage with the 7970 and 680 on CAD style programs
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comparing my Valley benches with my OC'd 1150/1575 7950 against stock GTX 760 im about 200 points behind. my max score was 1907 people with single 760's are posting in the 2100-2200 range.

The 760 is faster, albeit not a huge upgrade but they are so cheap atm (7950's still go for $300+) im going to SLI them. Checking out the benches @ guru3D 760 SLI gets you 780/Titan performance for $500. Its easily the best buy atm for raw performance.

Thats $150 cheaper than a 780 and $500 cheaper than a titan.

The only drawback is the 2gb of VRAM but I game on 1900x1080 anyway so its not that bad. Even playing RIFT with all sliders maxed/ultra with SUPERSAMPLING on I max the VRAM on my 7950 out at 1.3gb and get ~50fps in open world and ~30fps in cities. With supersampling off the FPS skyrockets to 90+ everywhere. damn that supersampling but you just make the game look so much better lol.
 
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Yeah, you can get 7950s for like 270 bucks. There pretty close. But GTX 760s do scale better in SLI then 7950s do in CF.
 
Okedokey said:
No. No GPU even saturates PCIe 2.
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In SLI they would run x8/x8, it may be a slight bottleneck for a gtx 760. With 3.0, it will still be x8/x8 but thats the same bandwidth as 2.0 x16/x16 then.

With that said, still NOT worth an upgrade to a different CPU. If you were going dual 780's, maybe.
 
i have the msi gtx 760, and will do some benchmarks later.
and if you want to upgrade from a 2500k to a 3770k just for games, no its not worth the extra money, for the rest if you have the money and whant more overal performence yes i think its a good upgrade.
and temps, depends on the vcore you have then, i dont now what youre overclock is now.
with my 3570 i do 4.5 at 1.2 vcore, with 1.385 its benchmark stable at 5.0 and themps under a h110 are just hitting 70 degrees.
my max stable benchmark Multi is 52
 
KingEojj said:
comparing my Valley benches with my OC'd 1150/1575 7950 against stock GTX 760 im about 200 points behind. my max score was 1907 people with single 760's are posting in the 2100-2200 range.

The 760 is faster, albeit not a huge upgrade but they are so cheap atm (7950's still go for $300+) im going to SLI them. Checking out the benches @ guru3D 760 SLI gets you 780/Titan performance for $500. Its easily the best buy atm for raw performance.

Thats $150 cheaper than a 780 and $500 cheaper than a titan.

The only drawback is the 2gb of VRAM but I game on 1900x1080 anyway so its not that bad. Even playing RIFT with all sliders maxed/ultra with SUPERSAMPLING on I max the VRAM on my 7950 out at 1.3gb and get ~50fps in open world and ~30fps in cities. With supersampling off the FPS skyrockets to 90+ everywhere. damn that supersampling but you just make the game look so much better lol.
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this is a msi gtx 760oc.
at 1085 so stock and my cpu at the moment also stock.

will post later with cpu at 4.5
 
yeah so i wont be upgrading the cpu for now as its a resounding no on here and on the post i made on ocn as well. however i will be on the look out for a used 3950k or 3770k just for the future.

and i just ordered two of these http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814130932

my main goal wasnt to get 1 760 to replace the 7950, i wouldnt do that. i was just gonna buy one to have to bench against the 7950 until the second arrived. also someone above mentioned you can get 7950's for 270$. I mean, not really, maybe used ones. Theres a sapphire dual x on newegg for $270 but the rest are still 300+ dollars. 760 is still cheaper and a little faster.

but i just got newegg perfered today so i just got them both :) ...and my oc'd 7950 is f/s! (not to plug my own stuff but i just did lol)

thanks for the help guys.
 
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KingEojj said:
yeah so i wont be upgrading the cpu for now as its a resounding no on here and on the post i made on ocn as well. however i will be on the look out for a used 3950k or 3770k just for the future.

and i just ordered two of these http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814130932

my main goal wasnt to get 1 760 to replace the 7950, i wouldnt do that. i was just gonna buy one to have to bench against the 7950 until the second arrived. also someone above mentioned you can get 7950's for 270$. I mean, not really, maybe used ones. Theres a sapphire dual x on newegg for $270 but the rest are still 300+ dollars. 760 is still cheaper and a little faster.

but i just got newegg perfered today so i just got them both :) ...and my oc'd 7950 is f/s! (not to plug my own stuff but i just did lol)

thanks for the help guys.
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sorry but in holland almost every 7950 is lower then 300
 
turbobooster said:
sorry but in holland almost every 7950 is lower then 300
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lucky for you i guess?
unfortunatley for me (i guess?) im in the USA and they are still on the pricey side, i wouldnt xfire them anyway until amd drops the microstutter fix drivers thats supposed to solve the issue..


have a pic of the 760 valley benchmark with an overclock?

thanks.
 
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