Looking to upgrade from i5 650

[Ryan_286]

I currently have an i5 650 in my pc and I was looking to upgrade to another cpu that would still use the lga 1156 socket motherboard. Most other cpus that use the 1156 socket have lower clock speeds, but more cores. I was looking for maybe an actual quad-core cpu instead of the i5 650's hyperthreaded dual core. I am looking to do some gaming and maybe some video editing in davinci resolve for some school projects. I'm not looking to spend too much money and I don't mind purchasing used hardware. Would it really be cost effective to upgrade to another lga 1156 cpu with more cores? If so, which one should I purchase for decent cost to performance?

My current system
cpu: i5 650
cpu cooler: stock cooler
motherboard: asus lga 1156 motherboard
ram: 6 gb ddr3
gpu: msi gtx 1050 ti
psu: Corsair 500w
storage: 128gb samsung ssd boot drive and 1 tb WD blue

 

[dudeman509]

i7-880 is the fastest one for that socket, but it's still quite behind the bar compared to today's chips. i7-860 is probably slightly more common.

What do you do with your computer? Is gaming an interest?

 

[Ryan_286]

i7-880 is the fastest one for that socket, but it's still quite behind the bar compared to today's chips. i7-860 is probably slightly more common.

What do you do with your computer? Is gaming an interest?

Yes I am looking to do some gaming. I guess I forgot to put that in the main thread. I have used this cpu for gaming for a couple months now, and its been okay, but I thought I might be able to get a little more performance out of my system. I don't know if the upgrade is worth the extra cash, so I wanted to hear some feedback from other people who may have had experience with these cpus.

 

[dudeman509]

Looks like you can pick up an i7-860 for about $60-80. That may give you a bit more in the way of power, but ultimately, Sandy Bridge was where Intel processors saw massive performance gains, and anything since then is mostly icing on the cake.

While an 860 may get you through until you can fully upgrade the entire rig, I think you'd be best off saving up a little more and replacing the entire MB, RAM, and CPU. Something like a lowly Pentium G4560 would blow anything that old out of the water in single and even multi-threaded tasks like gaming.

 

[Ryan_286]

Looks like you can pick up an i7-860 for about $60-80. That may give you a bit more in the way of power, but ultimately, Sandy Bridge was where Intel processors saw massive performance gains, and anything since then is mostly icing on the cake.

While an 860 may get you through until you can fully upgrade the entire rig, I think you'd be best off saving up a little more and replacing the entire MB, RAM, and CPU. Something like a lowly Pentium G4560 would blow anything that old out of the water in single and even multi-threaded tasks like gaming.

Thanks for your help. I was looking to possible build a new system with a pentium g4560, but I wanted to see if my older system was still worth upgrading. I think I may try and piece together a ~$300 pc with the g4560 on pc part picker. Ram prices are kinda high right now so I may hold off for a few months and see if they go down.