Upgrade or replace?

[Pr3d4t0r]

Hey guys,

First of all merry christmas to you all

onto my question though;

I'm currently running the rig in my signature. My cpu temps have been getting worse and worse, mostly due to h100 (the og version) probably running on dry vapours of what used to be liquid. It gets to a point where it sometimes idles at 45-50c, load is fine ish around 65 but with my recent job promotion and it being christmas time I decided I want to treat myself a bit;

I certainly want to replace cooling, but I was also thinking of just buying a new mobo/cpu/ram set, I've been really looking at getting 6800k msi carbon and 32gb vengence 3k(see lists below)

My cpu is probably on its way out as well, I've delid it, overclocked it to insane levels, sanded off IHS, I've gotten a hell of a use out of it but I think its time to retire the poor thing, especially since around last year I had to drop the cpu clocks as it started to bluescreen every now and then.

What are your opinions? should I stick with it while it lasts? upgrade to z170?x99? or wait for kaby 7700k?

Down the line I'd like to get a full tower and watercool the entire system (no chance I'll fit it in h440, not atm at least since I want to keep the hdd bays).

budget of around £1000 which is just enough to get the set I mentioned above, mostly would be used for gaming in 1440p/144hz, and some light(less than 10) VM and GNS3.

Any feedback would be very welcome

EDIT:

Here's what I have atm:
PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i7-4770K 3.5GHz Quad-Core Processor (£394.37 @ PC World Business)
CPU Cooler: Corsair H100 92.0 CFM Liquid CPU Cooler
Motherboard: MSI Z97-GAMING 7 ATX LGA1150 Motherboard
Memory: Corsair Dominator Platinum 16GB (4 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory (£235.79 @ Amazon UK)
Video Card: Palit GeForce GTX 980 Ti 6GB Super JetStream Video Card (£610.00 @ Amazon UK)
Case: NZXT H440 (Matte Black/Red) ATX Mid Tower Case (£106.95 @ CCL Computers)
Power Supply: Corsair 850W 80+ Platinum Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply (£158.87 @ BT Shop)
Total: £1505.98
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2016-12-23 11:39 GMT+0000



Here's what I want to upgrade to potentially:

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i7-6800K 3.4GHz 6-Core Processor (£382.00 @ Amazon UK)
CPU Cooler: Corsair H115i 104.7 CFM Liquid CPU Cooler (£119.98 @ Amazon UK)
Motherboard: MSI X99A GAMING PRO CARBON ATX LGA2011-3 Motherboard (£280.98 @ YoYoTech)
Memory: Corsair Dominator Platinum 32GB (4 x 8GB) DDR4-2666 Memory (£225.99 @ Amazon UK)
Total: £1008.95
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2016-12-23 11:35 GMT+0000

 

[tinytomlogan]

Can you just post a list of what you want rather than expecting people to open a link?

Help us to help you please dude

 

[Pr3d4t0r]

Can you just post a list of what you want rather than expecting people to open a link?

Help us to help you please dude

Done, sorry im more of a lurker than OP

 

[tinytomlogan]

Done, sorry im more of a lurker than OP

Thats cool dude thank you. Ill give it a read during my next long test - Im in and out atm between runs

 

[AlienALX]

Dunno man. TBH you are not going to gain much IPC by going to X99, given you are on Haswell.

Me personally? sell the 980ti and get a Titan XP. It looks like you invested an awful lot into your existing RAM and so on, I would be loathe to sidegrade for two more cores because in reality fella that's all you are really getting. And it costs a grand....

Wait for Zen or Titan XP tbh.

 

[Pr3d4t0r]

Dunno man. TBH you are not going to gain much IPC by going to X99, given you are on Haswell.

Me personally? sell the 980ti and get a Titan XP. It looks like you invested an awful lot into your existing RAM and so on, I would be loathe to sidegrade for two more cores because in reality fella that's all you are really getting. And it costs a grand....

Wait for Zen or Titan XP tbh.

Ye I get where you're coming from, I will be getting 1080ti when it comes out, the 3slot palit 980ti is clunky as hell :S

I'm 100% getting new aoi for now, h115i should be good, although means I'll need to find another use for the nff12's

I'm not particulary looking for performance gain as I do know that (at least gaming wise) there isn't a big diffrence between haswell i5 and x99 i7, but I mostly wanted extra cores for virtualisation, I'm doing some mcsa certs and want to be able to have some hands on gear to work on, which is pretty hard on ht 4core and only 16gb ram. Also I would get around 400-500 back for the old parts probably so it would be more of a "refresh" investment.

And Zen...I want it to work out, i really do, intel needs competition but I'm really hesistant to jump on zen bandwagon

 

[tinytomlogan]

If I were you Id get the H110i GT and a couple of ML140's and get that in your rig and set up right and I would stick where you are for now.

There are a lot of launches coming up and it just looks like spendng money for the sake of spending money. If your CPU dies then maybe revisit but for now you wont really get the ROI

 

[Pr3d4t0r]

If I were you Id get the H110i GT and a couple of ML140's and get that in your rig and set up right and I would stick where you are for now.

There are a lot of launches coming up and it just looks like spendng money for the sake of spending money. If your CPU dies then maybe revisit but for now you wont really get the ROI

that sounds most reasonable at the moment;

this was probably anwsered before but I was under impression that 115i was the latest model? followed by 110gtx and then 110gt? from quick google only diffrence is cpu block design and fan angles.

I'll probably keep the 3 sp120 quiets at the front in pull, and replace rad fans and rear with the ml140's. and keep those 3 in push right? so they create a slightly positive pressure becuase of rad.

Thanks for advice

 

[tinytomlogan]

H110i is made by coolit - 115 is Asetek - I personally prefer the 100 cable & hose layout and the fact it has link

 

[AlienALX]

Ye I get where you're coming from, I will be getting 1080ti when it comes out, the 3slot palit 980ti is clunky as hell :S

I'm 100% getting new aoi for now, h115i should be good, although means I'll need to find another use for the nff12's

I'm not particulary looking for performance gain as I do know that (at least gaming wise) there isn't a big diffrence between haswell i5 and x99 i7, but I mostly wanted extra cores for virtualisation, I'm doing some mcsa certs and want to be able to have some hands on gear to work on, which is pretty hard on ht 4core and only 16gb ram. Also I would get around 400-500 back for the old parts probably so it would be more of a "refresh" investment.

And Zen...I want it to work out, i really do, intel needs competition but I'm really hesistant to jump on zen bandwagon

Yeah fair enough man

TBH let's say you upgraded to a 5820k? you would actually lose gaming performance because of the speed defacit. It's obviously easily made up with an overclock but yeah, gaming wise you will gain sod all unless you were thinking of running 3-4 GPUs and Nvidia has shut that down now any way.

Again personally after having used real water cooling? get something like the EK kit. No AIO can touch a real loop.

 

[Lynx]

Yeah I am also on the side that votes to stick with the 4770k.
A nice overclock and a 1080ti will be your best bet.
You don't have to join the ZEN bandwagon, just wait and see