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After having built my gaming cumputer in 2008 little has happened to it other than a few GPU upgrades. i7-920 and 6GB ValueR ram on a somewhat moody Gigabyte GA-EX58-DS4 X58 motherboard, currently with an XFX Radeon HD 7870 after a longer Nvidia-streak. Most things were working out, but Star Citizen was a slideshow. At first I looked at LGA1150/2011 upgrades, but it didn't seem like I'd get a significant "bang for the buck" either with going lower-budget 4770K or the considerably more costly 4930K, and getting a decent, preferrably watercoolable, motherboard that fit either. A friend led me to check out what was still available for my current motherboard, and after following some auctions for the once ultra-expensive 980x/990x chips I managed to score one used for the going price a 4770K. While I'd generally be extremely wary of buying a used CPU, a 100% user with a (once) $1500 CPU will probably have treated it well and knows how to package it for transport. Now, there's no doubt the 24GB of 1600MHz Corsair Vengeance ram I dropped in helped a lot, but with the new chip it was like an all-new computer. Star Citizen is running smoothly with reasonable graphics settings, and other CPU intensive tasks are a breeze. So, if you're still using an aging X58 motherboard and you're looking for an upgrade, do consider getting one of these and a good set of high-performance RAM. And an SSD if you don't have one already, but that's a universal upgrade advice anyway. Remember to make sure that your particular motherboard (and revision number) will support the 980X, many of them came out years before this chip was released. You will almost definitely have to do a bios upgrade to get the compatibility if it exists at all. I forgot this, and was greeted by a black screen. Minor panic attack, but it worked fine once I flashed the bios with the old cpu.Read full review
