Up gradeing

[richard694000]

I was wondering should i upgrade my cpu or not. How much of a difference would there be.
Have the I5 2500k to an I5 3570k to enable the pciex 3 on the mother board

New board is
ASRock Z77 Professional Newegg.com - ASRock Z77 Professional LGA 1155 Intel Z77 HDMI SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX Intel Motherboard

And video card is
XFX Double D HD 7870
Newegg.com - XFX Double D FX-787A-CDFC Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition 2GB 256-bit GDDR5 PCI Express 3.0 x16 HDCP Ready CrossFireX Support Video Card

[wazza300]

Re: Up gradeing

i wouldnt bother to be honest,difference in performance between pcie2 and pcie3 is less than 1%,to see any benefit you need to be running sli and multiple high res monitors,youd be better off sitting it out and wait for haswell and amd 8k series graphic cards