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I have an old i5 3570k @ 4,4ghz. Is it worth upgrading to an i5 6500 now or is it just a waste of money?
I have an old i5 3570k @ 4,4ghz. Is it worth upgrading to an i5 6500 now or is it just a waste of money?
Honestly, I upgraded from a i7-920 @ 3.67GHz to an i7-5820K @ 4.3GHz, and I didn't really notice a massive difference. The biggest change was going from 6GB of RAM to 32GB. Mind you, this is with the same nVidia GTX 570. I imagine it would be a different story if I had a GTX 980 Ti or two. Moral of the story is this, if you are looking at upgrading your gaming performance, upgrade the video card FIRST, then work out what kind of processor you'll need to feed it.
Your cores/threads for AMD are wrong. You have them setup like Intel's Hyperthreading.
I have an old i5 3570k @ 4,4ghz. Is it worth upgrading to an i5 6500 now or is it just a waste of money?
Honestly, I upgraded from a i7-920 @ 3.67GHz to an i7-5820K @ 4.3GHz, and I didn't really notice a massive difference. The biggest change was going from 6GB of RAM to 32GB. Mind you, this is with the same nVidia GTX 570. I imagine it would be a different story if I had a GTX 980 Ti or two. Moral of the story is this, if you are looking at upgrading your gaming performance, upgrade the video card FIRST, then work out what kind of processor you'll need to feed it.
I have two EVGA GTX970 in SLi. I've had this cpu for ages. It just feels like I should have to upgrade now because it's so old. I was looking for something to upgrade over a year ago and I came to the conclusion that it wasn't really worth upgrading then. I'm not desperate to spend my money on worthless upgrades so I decided to hold off for another year. Now 12-18 months later it's still not worth upgrading. Have we really reached a peak CPU performance several years ago?