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Levrar

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#1 Levrar

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I'm thinking about building a new PC, I mostly play games and Flight Sim, which is very CPU heavy. I will also be picking up a third monitor shortly to have a 5670x1080 resolution. I've priced the components from below at ~$1000CAD including a case and second harddrive. Think I'll see much of an improvement? Current specs in sig.

i7 2600k

Z68 MB

8GB RAM

580? SLI? Crossfire? I haven't kept up on cards.

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13 years ago

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#2 C_Rule

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If that is one of the 4 core i5s, you still have a pretty strong CPU, and I'd wait until Bulldozer comes out, to see what AMD have to show from their time in hibernation. From what we've seen, so far, I'm not really confident it will be better, but there's a chance it may be. At that resolution you'd probably be just as well off with 6970 CF. Or, you could get two 3GB 580s.

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#3 commander

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I'm thinking about building a new PC, I mostly play games and Flight Sim, which is very CPU heavy. I will also be picking up a third monitor shortly to have a 5670x1080 resolution. I've priced the components from below at ~$1000CAD including a case and second harddrive. Think I'll see much of an improvement? Current specs in sig.
i7 2600k
Z68 MB
8GB RAM
580? SLI? Crossfire? I haven't kept up on cards.
SSD
Levrar

Depends what i5 you have if it's a dual core you should idd upgrade, since your motherboar has an socket 1156 it think you have a dual core i5. the cost of a sandy bridge cpu the i5-2500 with motherboard will be about the same price as an i7-870 and the i5-2500 is faster. An i5-760 would be the cheapest solution but if you plan to sli or crossfire strong cards you will run into a bottleneck. If i was you, i'd sell your system , or keep the hd 5870 and crossfire or tri fire that in a sandy bridge system (i5-2500 or i7-2600) especially if you want to play at that resolution You can sli gtx 580 but do realize they cost 500$ a card , that isn't really in your budget. However why not crossfire that xfx hd 5870?

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#4 hartsickdiscipl

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If your i5 is a quad-core there is no need for you to upgrade anything at this point. Your system is still very strong.

EDIT- If you are truly going to go through with that eyefinity setup, sell your 5870 and get a 6990. Then your upgrade will be complete unless your i5 is a dual-core.

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