Should i upgrade it?

[CaptainCereal]

Hi guys it's been a while since i builded my own pc, almost 5 years , and now i've been wondering if i need to buy a new cpu .
My specs are

MB : Gigabyte Ultra durable series ,GA-H77-D3H
Gpu : Gtx nvidea 970
Ram : 16 gb
Cpu : Intel core i5 2500 3.30 - 3.70 GHz

I only play videogames on this pc , and i usually try to max out or keep high settings
What do you guys think?

 

[gussrtk]

Depends on the games you play and if you are unhappy with performance of your system.

As well as if you have a budget for an upgrade.

I know you have an older system and an upgrade is sounding good, but if you play older games/online MMO, then the usefulness of the upgrade is just not there

 

[CaptainCereal]

my budget is around 200-300, for the cpu

Also i miswrote the gpu 😀 , it's a Gtx 970

 

[gussrtk]

well thats a much better GPU! and the choice is simpler

you could go with Skylake (2nd newest generation of CPU)




PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i5-6500 3.2GHz Quad-Core Processor ($188.49 @ OutletPC)
Motherboard: MSI H110M Gaming Micro ATX LGA1151 Motherboard ($69.69 @ SuperBiiz)
Memory: G.Skill Ripjaws V Series 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4-3000 Memory ($92.99 @ Newegg)
Total: $351.17
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2017-01-28 09:08 EST-0500



Or you could go with the newest one, but you will need windows 10 with this chip. Also, you are able to use H110/B150/H170/Z170 chipset motherboard with Kaby Lake, but I think they require a Bios update (need to confirm this, but that's what the news was a couple of months ago). So in selection I just put a b250 chipset motherboard to be sure it works. You could look up some info on using older chipset

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i5-7500 3.4GHz Quad-Core Processor ($198.69 @ SuperBiiz)
Motherboard: ASRock B250M Pro4 Micro ATX LGA1151 Motherboard ($78.99 @ SuperBiiz)
Memory: G.Skill Ripjaws V Series 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4-3000 Memory ($92.99 @ Newegg)
Total: $370.67
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2017-01-28 09:11 EST-0500

 

[CaptainCereal]

Wow , i think i'll go for the second one since i already run on w10 , ty for the help