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System Name | Is rly gud |
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Processor | Intel Core i5 11600kf |
Motherboard | Asus Prime Z590-V ATX |
Memory | (48GB total) 16GB (2x8GB) Crucial Ballistix Sport 3000MHZ and G. Skill Ripjaws 32GB 3200MHZ (2x16GB) |
Video Card(s) | GIGABYTE RTX 3060 12GB |
Storage | 1TB MSI Spatium M370 NVMe M.2 SSD |
Display(s) | 32" Viewsonic 4k, 34" Samsung 3440x1440, XP Pen Creative Pro 13.3 |
Power Supply | EVGA 600 80+ Gold |
VR HMD | Meta Quest Pro, Tundra Trackers |
Software | Windows 10 |
I like that idea the best, the "Server" Grade Quads are lower wattage and can also OC insanely! and thats a great price, even from Ebay.
Personally any upgrade to LGA775 is beating a dead horse(or socket ) because of the release of i5, your spending the same amount of money on a LGA 775 socket as you would on the i5 socket, though the i5/i7 is vastly superior in everyway.
Unless you're for some reason DYING for a quadcore that you MUST absolutely must have for video encoding, or some other that requires more cores. I'd say avoid it, AVOID it all together, spend your pennies else where or save for next year and upgrade the mobo/cpu/ram to i5/i7
There's really no reason at all to switch to core i5 if he can get similar performance for cheaper. He's running a 24" (and most likely 1080P monitor) so for games a new processor wouldn't make much of a difference between the two quads.
If he wants to go SLI/Crossfire, he's limited to 8x/8x, a problem that doesn't necessarily plague all LGA775 boards. You'll see equal issue with both systems (graphics-wise) being bottlenecked in the next few generations, but the 775 platform may end up being faster (perhaps not noticeably) than the i5 system due the LGA 1156's bandwidth limitations being about half the full potential of what the 775 sets have to offer. Considering this, is there any reason to may more? I can see i7 being justified a little better.
Not sure if these assumptions are correct, but I thought they should be considered as possibilities.
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