- THE SALTY CHIP
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Posted by: PMC Fluffy
Posted by: THE SALTY CHIP
But if the next time you're going to upgrade the mother is with the next generation, and the same with the GPU, you might as well just buy the better GPU now since it would be the same price.You missed my point entirely. He does NOT want to upgrade the mobo, ram, and CPU with the next gen, so he's investing in those three things now, and will have more money in the future for when the 7xx/8xxx series comes out.
And I've never heard of someone overclocking a 7850 to a 7950's speeds. I thought it was in an entirely different league.Uhh, Google? If you know how to overclock, any non-reference 7850 can hit those speeds easily. This isn't nVidia.
I guess if it's an non-reference card it will overclock better, but 1200 and even 1400 seems like it would get pretty hot.You'd think, but the 7850 is perfect for overclocking. The 7870 is actually worse for it.
But I can understand the HSF, I would probably do the same too.If it was a sub-$700 build, it wouldn't be worth it, as that could provide a better PSU, case, or RAM, but for a $1000 build, why not?Okay, I can see what you're saying. But if he doesn't want to upgrade the CPU, Mobo, RAM or any of those then shouldn't the i5 at least be an ivy bridge?