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3570k to 3770k

Drollic

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Having upgraded my psu recently to be on the safe side and taking into account the rest of my spec, would an upgrade to a 3770k be worthwhile for gaming? I'd intend to run it at the same clock of 4.3 on air. I'm starting to see more and more games list i7's for the recommened spec as opposed to i5's. I'll probably make the jump to big pascal near launch of the 3rd party revisions and don't see my current i5 as making the most of it, especially if going 1440p gsync later this year.

My mobo is around 12-18 months old as was replaced, ssd 6-12 months, psu is new, ram 6-12 months as was upgraded to 16gb. In fact the only thing original from this 3 year old build is the case, dvd drive and 1 case fan. I'm thinking an upgrade to broadwell-e or skylake i7 late this year is going to be expensive when I can swap out with an i7 now and only gain marginal improvements plus ddr4?

Then there's videos like the below that make me question as to if a possible swap or full upgrade is worthwhile at all?

https://youtu.be/KzpYOHuSfaM
 
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Some games, but not all, take advantage of hyperthreading, so that i7 should make gaming a little bit better overall. I wouldn't expect a big jump in performance though just from a CPU upgrade. The main benefit of a 3770k to me would be that you'll be less likely to bottleneck big Pascal/ Polaris, but even then I'd probably say wait until release to look at benchmarks to see whether the 3570k really will hold back the rest of your system.
 
i went from a 3570k to a 2700k a while back now via the MM , at the time I was running SLI and the change was night and day I got much more GPU usage and a smoother experience even in games without hyperthreading.

Now I run a single card I couldn't say as my set up has grown to be incomparable to my previous build however the i7 chews up anything you throw at it for breakfast something the 3570k struggled with on time to time especially noticeable in multi GPU set ups.

Take from this what you will but IF you can source an i7 (2600k, 2700k, 3770k) cheap I'd do it and sell the 3570k for a bit of a recoup which in my case at the time made it virtually a free upgrade. I lost out on PCI-E 3.0 which makes no difference going via the sandybridge method and they are arguably better CPU's (Had this one running at 5Ghz but went down to 4.8 for every day use)

and I can honestly say it's plenty fast and won't be swapped out any time soon unless something drastically powerful comes out
 
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