What’s a reasonable upgrade?

[MoNkeE]

Morning you big bunch of beautiful nerds.

Im currently rolling with:
Intel i5 10700 (non-K volt modded to K speeds)
MSI Tomahawk B460
16gb DDR4 3200 (only running at 3000 due to board)

I’ve been toying with the idea of upgrading but I’ve been out of the upgrade game for a while and wouldn’t really know where to go from here.

What’re my choices for both a new build (only looking to change CPU/mobo/RAM) or going rates for the second hand market?

I’m not particularly wedded to Intel, and running 1440p on a GTX3080 Ti.

Thanks!

 

[MoNkeE]

Thanks for the advice guys, probably makes sense just to keep mine as is for now then, and try and find a cheap incremental upgrade for the daughters 4th gen i5. The 8th gen bundles don’t seem to be too dear, and have the hyper threading included……

 

[MoNkeE]

I’ve never really considered any of the 10th or 12th gen i3s or i5s as new purchases. What are the F chips like, are they gimped like the non-K in terms of only able to turbo for x amount of time before returning to base clock speed?

I know this may seem somewhat obvious, but would a 12th gen i3 be a good upgrade from a 4th gen i5? Effectively same cores but more threads, but considerably newer tech.

 

[MoNkeE]

Spare a thought for an old man out of touch with the world, what’s IGP?

 

[MoNkeE]

Ahh that’s fine, she’s got a Vega 64!