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3770K to 1600 is it worth it

adwol48

adwol48

adwol48

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Hey folks recently had an issue with an old Z77 board but managed to get up and going again thanks to the members market, but it got me wondering should I just bite the bullet and upgrade. Obviously gonna need a new MB and RAM to go with the 1600X. It would mainly be used for gaming and sometimes streaming and the odd light bit of video editing work. to me it seems to hit a good price point but was wondering how much of an actual performance increase would i see compared to my 3770K
 
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The only reason i was considering the upgrade was how old the Z77 chipset was and if god forbid this mb fails at any point i'm again going to be looking for another board (some if which are priced at the same level as a new AM4 board). The 3770k does serve me well in gaming and day to day productivity although i have noticed a few stuttering issues whilst streaming depending on my quality settings. Gpu doesnt bother me too greatly have 2 290x in crossfire so that handles most games very well still. Its just the reliability of 4 year old hardware thats currently my main concern.
 
See i would have assumed that too given i had a fairly high end Z77 mpower board but the vrms around the cpu socket went up in a large cloud of smoke and left behind bare copper pcb and cant say i was running a huge overclock(4.3) i dunno maybe having that fail has just thrown me a little and made it evidently clear if something does go i'm left with no warranty and also have to source a new eol product again.
 
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