Should I upgrade to an i3?

[DarkAddo]

Currently I have a Pentium G3220 and right now the i3-4150 is less than $100 right now. For gaming, streaming, recording, and editing would the i3 give me any performance boost? I'm mostly wondering this as both of them are dual core, but the i3 has Hyperthreading and a higher clock speed.

 

[Rumbletum]

The advice I have received is to get the best configuration you can afford. Its not just CPU but graphics card and drives that affect your overall experience. I would suggest that you post your system specs to receive the best advice from this forum

 

[Wolfshadw]

Would it give you a performance boost, yes. Is that performance boost worth $100? Not in my opinion.

-Wolf sends

 

[DarkAddo]

Then would you say it'd be better for me to save and go for an i5/i7?

 

[Wolfshadw]

Yes.

-Wolf sends

 

[ad0]

You cpu is already haswell and you already have a mid motherboard so just get a none k i5 or higher end i3 4 gen cpu