Upgrade i5 3570k to i5 6500

[Manrajkang]

Upgrading my motherboard ram and cpu but I'm stuck with cpu. I feel like i5 6500 would be a better choice because of ddr4 ram but then again I could save quiet a bit by sticking with my i5 3570k and just going for a motherboard upgrade along with ddr3 ram. can someone tell me which would be a better choice.

 

[Gam3r01]

Why do you want to upgrade your motherboard?

 

[Dunlop0078]

Why would you upgrade anything? Is there a reason you want to upgrade your mobo and ram? That cpu is still perfectly capable the 3570k is no slouch, with a decent overclock you could maybe match or even exceed the performance of a i5 6500. If your a gamer system ram speeds matters very little in the majority of games.

 

[Sakkura]

If you absolutely must upgrade for some reason (maybe for M.2 boot drive?) then I'd really consider a 6600K the minimum for an upgrade over a 3570K.

 

[Karadjgne]

Someone would have to buy me a skylake based system for me to even approach the idea of me replacing either my 3570k or my 3770k. There's simply no point in it. Waste of money, period. There's not a program made that's so optimized just for skylake, that it'll render Ivy Bridge obsolete. The most intensive game I own will push my gtx970strix OC (OC'd to max) to 99%usage on my 3770k, which doesn't broach 53% usage. At a constant 60fps, on a 60Hz monitor, (152fps actual average) the performance difference between my cpu and a skylake cpu are so negligible as to be irrelevant.

Dude, save your money. When Intel finally drops a cpu that'll make Ivy-Bridge look like an old p4, that'll be the time to update.