Worth upgrading from 3570?

[yannis76]

Hi,

for the last 5 years I have been running a 3570 in a SFF case mainly using for photo processing and some games. Computer is running fine, there is not one game that I feel cannot be played, but I would like it to be a bit faster in Lightroom.

With all the Spectre and Meltdown issues, is it worth upgrading to Coffee Lake?

Thx

 

[yannis76]

Consider Ryzen 2. It'll do everything your current does, while being almost as fast in single thread and vastly quicker in multi while also being cheaper. You want the high multi for lightroom, you get more of everything else for "free".
Even something like a 2600 on a B450 board will do well. Will beat the Intel soundly on everything but games. Launched in 3 days.


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You are more than welcome my friend and weather has started to be just fantastic, almost 20oC!

 

[yannis76]

Get a 2nd hand i7-3770. Cheap and effective upgrade, saves hassle of total upgrade and still a very good CPU.

Well the 3770 chips are not that cheap and I wonder whether there is any difference...

 

[yannis76]

Ok most of you suggest the Ryzen 2 but will this new CPU address the Spectre/Meltdown vulnerabilities?