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Upgrading from an i5 750

Definitely wait until Ryzen comes out. It could be cheaper and offer more at the lower end. Then again it might be a total disappointment, but I think it's worth waiting the relatively short amount of time. By then Kably Lake could be slightly cheaper anyway.
 
I'm in the same rough boat. I'm not 100% sure I'll upgrade as tbh the 750 still is fine for my needs but think i will because 2009 was a long time ago!
 
I had a i5 750 too. did everything fine. however I learnt that my mobo could take a xeon cpu that was considerably cheaper than an i7. so 50 quid later I bought the xeon. system will last me well for few more years. wont look to upgrade till 10nm cpus are the norm and reasonably priced
 
I would personally try and wait a couple of months more until we see Ryzen, and then see what the horizon will be then.
As far as going 6600k or 7600k, i would always get the newer revision especially if price is marginal. Though if its like £150 difference i5 vs i5, depends on performance and other stuff then
 
To tide you over another while, 1156 i7's are really cheap 2nd hand (around €30 here) and are still pretty decent processors.

I played Battlefield 1 online (64p) on an i7-870 at stock speeds recently and it was pretty good.
 
I only recently upgraded from an i7-860 @ 4ghz and truthfully in gaming and day to day usage I can barely tell the difference. Yes it's nice to have 6gbps SATA ports, M.2 and USB 3.0 but do I feel like my upgrade was worth the £300+ it cost me? Hell no.
 
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