Is it worth the upgrade?

[Novakane_]

Is it worth to go from an i5 4590 to a i5 7500?

 

[superninja12]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CDgI4vGSc3Y

nawhhhhh

 

[brandubbs]

Would be more wise to go with a medium to high end i7

 

[superninja12]

Would be more wise to go with a medium to high end i7

and why do you think that?

 

[Finstar]

A worthwhile upgrade would be an i5 8600k or a Ryzen 5 1600.

 

[Solandri]

A worthwhile upgrade would be an i5 8600k or a Ryzen 5 1600.

Yeah, it's important to realize the 8th gen i5s are hexacores - 6 cores instead of 4. Frankly, they're better than a 7th gen i7 except for single-threaded tasks. And given that the i5-8400 (which boosts to 3.8-4.0 GHz) costs $10 less than the i5-7500 (which boosts to 3.8 GHz), don't even bother with the 7th gen.

That said, CPUs haven't improved much in performance since Sandy Bridge. Unless you want some new feature that's been introduced since Haswell (lower power consumption, 6 cores, USB 3.1, better integrated GPU, streaming encrypted 4k without a dGPU), there's very little reason to upgrade.

 

[IInuyasha74]

Right, like the others are saying. If you want to jump to an Intel 8th Gen Core i5, i7, or a Ryzen 7, that would be a decent upgrade. Otherwise you are best to just keep what you have. You could probably get by fine until the next new generation of processors is introduced.

Intel still sells its 7th gen processors, but really they are outdated now. There isn't a lot of reason for anyone to buy them when you have the option of the 8th gen processors or Ryzen.

 

[Novakane_]

Right, like the others are saying. If you want to jump to an Intel 8th Gen Core i5, i7, or a Ryzen 7, that would be a decent upgrade. Otherwise you are best to just keep what you have. You could probably get by fine until the next new generation of processors is introduced.

Intel still sells its 7th gen processors, but really they are outdated now. There isn't a lot of reason for anyone to buy them when you have the option of the 8th gen processors or Ryzen.

Wow, 2 years ago when I first built my PC everybody turned their head at AMD... times have changed !

 

[Novakane_]

A worthwhile upgrade would be an i5 8600k or a Ryzen 5 1600.

Yeah, it's important to realize the 8th gen i5s are hexacores - 6 cores instead of 4. Frankly, they're better than a 7th gen i7 except for single-threaded tasks. And given that the i5-8400 (which boosts to 3.8-4.0 GHz) costs $10 less than the i5-7500 (which boosts to 3.8 GHz), don't even bother with the 7th gen.

That said, CPUs haven't improved much in performance since Sandy Bridge. Unless you want some new feature that's been introduced since Haswell (lower power consumption, 6 cores, USB 3.1, better integrated GPU, streaming encrypted 4k without a dGPU), there's very little reason to upgrade.

Thanks for the good intel, for a lack of a better word!