looking to upgrade from my old first gen i7 and my ati4890's

Budget :- $800

i will be selling my current cpu, mobo and gpu's when i upgrade

You'll probably need new RAM, unless you already have 1600.

But yes, I would recommend a 3770 - I have one, upgraded from a 920 recently.

skythra do you think it will run arma 3 ? thanks raven and tspec. is it worth getting the 3770k over the 3770

Yeah, benchmarks of a 580 on a dualcore, quadcore, and an OC'd high end Quadcore for BF3 when it was released showed nearly no change to FPS. Literally 1-2 fps between them (and not necessarily the faster was the better).

I'd guess you've got plenty of grunt. In fact it's really only old games with 1 thread which won't perform as well, if they were cpu limited. Modern games with more than 2 threads will run fine.

I recommend speding half that money and buy GTX670 you wont regret it!

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why bother upgrading, spend it on blow and hookers instead

+1

imo don't go the reference design with the single fan at the end. they're a bastard to keep dust out of and the heatsink channels where the supposedly cool air is meant to go get clogged too.

i never could understand out why people give a shit about the guts of their PC looking good...