Thanks for the advice. I'm assuming those coolers are capable of getting an i5 3570k up to speeds enough for Dolphin and the more intensive games (like Mario Galaxy and such)? Enough to get it up to about 4.2 or a bit more anyways?
And yeah I knew Haswell would be another socket. I was just asking questions to determine whether i'd be able to fit in certain sizes of components. I wasn't aware any of those types of heatsinks would be able to do the job I would need them to. The only worry I have about Haswell is that I actually heard from several sources that old PCI slots may be done away with in its motherboards. If that happens i'll have to spend extra money on a new wireless card, i'm using an internal PCI one (not to mention the CPU itself might be considerably more expensive than Ivy)...
Power supply I will of course be getting too, i'm not going to get anywhere with the shitty dell 300watt one i've got now. I don't believe i should run into any issues getting a new PSU to install in my case.
D3D will be fine for now. I'll be using this same GPU until I can afford something better. I'm already using it for Dolphin and it can play every game i've thrown at it with 3x internal resolution fine. Just need to get a better CPU now. An even better gpu can come later if I need the extra power for PC games.
By the way (and I hate to be a noob but i've never really replaced a mobo before), what would be the consequences of instead of getting the motherboards you recommended, I went with an even cheaper model like this?-
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813157325
And yeah I knew Haswell would be another socket. I was just asking questions to determine whether i'd be able to fit in certain sizes of components. I wasn't aware any of those types of heatsinks would be able to do the job I would need them to. The only worry I have about Haswell is that I actually heard from several sources that old PCI slots may be done away with in its motherboards. If that happens i'll have to spend extra money on a new wireless card, i'm using an internal PCI one (not to mention the CPU itself might be considerably more expensive than Ivy)...
Power supply I will of course be getting too, i'm not going to get anywhere with the shitty dell 300watt one i've got now. I don't believe i should run into any issues getting a new PSU to install in my case.
D3D will be fine for now. I'll be using this same GPU until I can afford something better. I'm already using it for Dolphin and it can play every game i've thrown at it with 3x internal resolution fine. Just need to get a better CPU now. An even better gpu can come later if I need the extra power for PC games.
By the way (and I hate to be a noob but i've never really replaced a mobo before), what would be the consequences of instead of getting the motherboards you recommended, I went with an even cheaper model like this?-
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813157325