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worth upgrading i5 3570k

morta said:
im not gaming at 1080 though at 1080 everything is fine. but im on a 4k screen 3840x2160 to be exact and anything lower then its natvie looks horrible.. 1440. looks better then 1080 but the image looks blurd. so i want to have it at native. as it is on this cooler im allready hitting like 64c after 5 hours of prime. 65c after 10 mins of intel extream. and this is only at 4ghz. when i first had this chip 5 years ago i had it on a 4.5 overclock. and it was 1.25volts plus very high LLC.and i think my temps were 64c or something like that.i dont rember.but i have since had blue screens so it became unstable at somepoint and so i have dield it down to 4ghz. temps are worse on the stock cooler as i tested it to compare temps and on that its at 80c on the intel test and 79 on prime. with the corsair its 65-64 my temps are ideling in the mid 40s right now. and this is at 4ghz on a manual voltage of 1.18 with very high LLC also there is a strange buzzing imiting for the cpu itself..it could be the motherboard but it sounds like its coming direclty form the cpu..this is another resson why i wish to upgrade. i allready had to replace the hx1000 psu as my pc started randomly shutting down. and since newere platforms are better and support higher tech thats why i was considienrg the kaby or waiting to see what zen is like or waiting for cannon lake if its worth it.
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You are more cpu bound at 1080p though and a gtx1080 dependent on game isn't a card for solid 60fps min @ 4k.
In the games you experience below expected performance, what are your cpu cores and gpu utilisation?
 
My current spec is in my sig! The only game my CPU bottlenecks on, is BF1 on ultra AT 1080p. It seems to eat i5's for breakfast.

Any other game however my system purs along with no issues at all.

You running 4k I guess a CPU upgrade would help you slightly, but all depends if you got the cash burning a hole. Also worth a wait till AMD show off their new CPU's.
 
No, but if Zen doesn't work out, it's worth going to a clocked 3770k until coffee lake/cannon lake. I made the same jump. There's a few games you can see gains on and also CPU useage at 100% with a clocked 3570k - BF1 being a popular big title.
 
65c is nothing for an ivy bridge I don't think they even start throttling until 90c. You should be able to run it at 1.3v without any problems.

If you don't want to clock it up and see how it runs get ya self the 3770k and should help on a lot of the newer games.
 
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