Question i7 3770 to i5 9600k?

[WillianLozano]

I want to upgrade from my i7 3770 to a i5 9600k? Is it a good choice?

 

[logainofhades]

Personally, I would wait for official Ryzen 3000 benches before upgrading your platform.

 

[dudeman509]

I'm just shooting for 1080p 60FPS, as I don't care about anything more and I'm not going to upgrade monitors any time in the near future.

Shadow is doing ~45-55 FPS at 90-100% CPU usage in one specific area of the game, all background stuff closed. Just beat that game, so I doubt I'll be playing it anymore soon, but it's just an example of the 4-core platform showing its age. It's been a great computer the 5 years or so I've owned it.

I also do a fair bit of coding and work-from-home development on this computer when my work laptop just isn't enough horsepower (stupid 2-core u-series). A NVMe + DDR4 + faster processor system would be worth its cost in that alone.

 

[vwcrusher]

^crashings, freezes.., that's more related to an unstable system rather than the cpu struggling...

As I noted in my post, it is more than game playing - it takes forever to load images in my catalog, etc, etc. Like others have noted, after 7 years it is time for an upgrade.....3700X?

 

[-Fran-]

Or maybe just a new SSD or two? 😛

But if you want to upgrade, July 7th is just as good as now, I guess.

If you wanna wait, then the Ry3K series may disrupt things enough for either Intel to drop prices or just get an amazing upgrade/deal with AMD.

Cheers!

 

[vwcrusher]

Or maybe just a new SSD or two? 😛

But if you want to upgrade, July 7th is just as good as now, I guess.

If you wanna wait, then the Ry3K series may disrupt things enough for either Intel to drop prices or just get an amazing upgrade/deal with AMD.

Cheers!

Yeah, the plan is for a 500GB NVMe for W10 and applications, and another 1T for data. Right now I seen to favor the Samsung 970 EVO Plus....but in a month, who knows?