Question Upgrade or no?

[Strafeless]

I have an i5 7500, is it worth upgrading to i5 9600k?

 

[Peiguy]

Not if you're gaming

 

[InvalidError]

If your existing PC still does everything you need to do done in a reasonably timely fashion, then I'd say no.

Two extra cores and a few hundred MHz higher clocks may feel more like a sidegrade than an upgrade for many everyday tasks.

 

[ElectrO_90]

Even if you did upgrade to that, you still need a new motherboard - intel are nice like that.

 

[Strafeless]

Do you guys think it'll be a big upgrade to my games?

 

[Strafeless]

Because I have a deal on the i5 9600k for 245 CAD and the retail price is 340 CAD

 

[InvalidError]

Two months from now, you'll be able to get the Ryzen 3600 for 15-25 CAD more. I'd wait for that. Worst case, I would dare to hope it'll put some pressure on retailers to reduce their markups on Intel chips a little.

 

[Karadjgne]

And how much will a new motherboard cost to support the cpu?

It'd be cheaper to get an i7-7700k, which would be an upgrade, not only for the clock speeds, but overall ability of 8 threads vrs 4, and also won't require the hastle of reinstalling windows completely because of change in mobo necessary for 9th gen cpus, which will basically be another $200ish for a half way decent Z390.

$450 to get 10-20ish fps, that you won't see anyways because it'll be beyond the refresh of your monitor.

Somethings only look good on the surface.