Is it worth geting old I7 970 in 2K17 ?

[Crazy Tubex]

So I just sold my old ass gaming/productivity rig wich had C2Q 8GB RAM 500gb HDD and Radeon 7770 for 130 bucks .

I have around 300 - 350 dollars to spend on pc that main purpos is to do video editing / C# coding ,php coding in visual studio , and also Unity 3D work , and besides that a bit of gaming , nothing to crazy Im sticking to 1080P .

Im looking on second hand market and there seem to be a lot of i7 970 with saber toth mobos and 16gb ram for around 100-130 bucks , I was thinking of geting that , and hdd ssd and something like radeon r9 270x or 280 , now is i7 to old to be used today or should I just get something like second or third gen i5 ?

My budget is really tight and I cant spend more then 350euros , also buying new is out of question cause for what I need , high core count and 3gb+ VRAM ssd and bunch of hdd storage is out of question , new if my buying with this budget best I can do is i3 wich there is no way that Im buying dual core even with HT , buying ryzen is just to expensive for me .

 

[4745454b]

Not too bad. It's also better than getting the 920. Considering you get the CPU, board, and ram it's not a bad deal at all. What do you mean by video editing? If you need the cores the 4c/8t 970 should do better than a newer 2c/4t 2x00 or other such chip. If it's the best you can afford then I'd go for it.

 

[iamacow]

If you are doing light editing or don't mind wanting the i7 920 is just fine. Comparing to the the newest i7 (7700k). its is roughtly half the speed in Cinebench R15 and even slower without all the instruction sets for video encoding.

 

[Crazy Tubex]

Not to heavy video editing , mostly just cuting up clips and puting png pictures and sound overlays , no green screen chroma key schananigins .

 

[Crazy Tubex]

Also should I get r9 280x or GTX 770 ?

 

[iamacow]

Not to heavy video editing , mostly just cuting up clips and puting png pictures and sound overlays , no green screen chroma key schananigins .

Than you will be fine and you might not even notice you are using and older computer. I still have my i7 920 laying in a box somewhere. severed me fine until I needed something more powerful for editing.

 

[4745454b]

I also meant what programs are you using. If any of them can do GPU acceleration that will dictate what GPU you buy. (CUDA, get the 770, OpenCL, get the 280X.)

 

[HoppsTech]

I've got an i7 970 right now and I edit a bunch of 1080p video heavily and I also do long sessions of photoshop + gaming. It is more than capable of doing it's job in 2017, it's a legendary chip!