Hello all,
i5 2500k - what a cpu, eh? Except I never really pushed it with an AIO cooler, and now it's too late (41C on idle - even with excellent case flow, 3.4ghz. It hits 81 on "real world" load, which makes me twitchy.)
I recently swapped the GTX 570 for a 580 that I managed to get for peanuts and it got me thinking - why not upgrade the CPU too, and get a bit more life out of the ol' girl?
I'd heard of using 3rd gen on 2nd gen boards so I had an email exchange with Zotac to double check all supported chips for my board, and the nice man told me all about the 3rd gen cpus working with a BIOS update for Ivybridge support (which I believe I've found).
So why not go for 3770K, I'm thinking? They're not a bad price used.
Does anyone have any experience of this, or advice they'd be willing to share?
i5 2500k - what a cpu, eh? Except I never really pushed it with an AIO cooler, and now it's too late (41C on idle - even with excellent case flow, 3.4ghz. It hits 81 on "real world" load, which makes me twitchy.)
I recently swapped the GTX 570 for a 580 that I managed to get for peanuts and it got me thinking - why not upgrade the CPU too, and get a bit more life out of the ol' girl?
I'd heard of using 3rd gen on 2nd gen boards so I had an email exchange with Zotac to double check all supported chips for my board, and the nice man told me all about the 3rd gen cpus working with a BIOS update for Ivybridge support (which I believe I've found).
So why not go for 3770K, I'm thinking? They're not a bad price used.
Does anyone have any experience of this, or advice they'd be willing to share?