Upgrade i5-3570K to?

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First Post!
Considering an upgrade after 5.5 years with the same rig.
I've OCd my CPU to 4.2GHz, stable af on air cooling, no voltage changes.
It's a good little churner for gaming, but lacks firepower in other situations such as 3D model rendering.
Want something that ultimately renders a lot faster, but also as a bonus gives me more FPS.
I know I'd have to get shot of the MB and RAM as well. Wouldn't want to throw more than 500 at it.
What do you reckon? Ryzen 7 2700X or an intel equivalent? Would the Ryzen give me better performance in gaming? I know that it would be a lot better at rendering as my software would 100% utilise the extra cores, but I'd ideally like to see some performance gains in games if I'm to throw 100s at my machine again.
A lot of games rely on fast single thread speeds, but not so sure these days! The single thread speed rating of the new Ryzen 7 2700X is not much higher than the 6 year old i5-3570K and I'm OC'ing it, I'd like to think the newer one would tank the old one!!
The i7-8700K looks the ticket but it's just too dear!!!

 

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I do a lot of work on my machine, a lot of that is not rendering though. I do more gaming than rendering if I'm honest, but I'm less likely to use the machine for heavy rendering because it's slow on that front.
Going the R5 route is an interesting strategy, waiting for Zen 2. got me thinking

 

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I had an AMD Phenom X4 9950 black edition, OCd it. Way back before my i5. It ran like a beast with 3DS MAX, was that just my imagination? It seemed to blow the i5 outta the water

 

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thanks for the replies so far. If I was to sell my Motherboard, RAM, CPU and Cooler, OCd as it is, how much you reckon I could get? trying to weigh up the costs. Not many people on eBay selling that bundle, mostly from America, want upwards of £600 which is laughable.

 

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I've just upgraded from a i5 3570 to a ryzen 5 2600 and to me its a no brainer. I previously had an i7 7700k before down grading to the 3570k (helped to sponsor a suzuki 1200 bandit motorbike) but the 3570k was noticeably slower in comparison, that I decided to go for a total upgrade to the 2600. Glad I did, everything is a lot quicker/smoother, games run far better, and I've now got an upgrade path for the next generation ryzen when it appears next year hopefully and it was cheaper than going down the Intel route.


Ryzen 5 2600, MSI B450 tomahawk, 2 x 8gb Team group Vulcan 3000mhz ram, Arctic T33 cooler, Asus 1070 dual oc, coolermaster V700 psu, umpteen hard drives

Will that B450 support a Zen 2 CPU?

 

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Suppose with a BIOS update. MSI should support that shouldn't they?