What would you guys recommend I do

[ezhanson2002]

So currently I have an i5 3570 that is on the brink of death... I have a good deal on a i7 3770k, that I can snag right now... Or I can pray to God this i5 doesn't die any minute now and be stranded. I'm hoping that I can get the i7 and upgrade in a couple years to the new i7 platform that will be out... I just can't afford the DDR4, CPU, and MB right now...

Rest of my specs:
16GB DDR3
GTX 1070
And the rest doesn't matter in this context...

What should I do? Considering I play Medium/Heavy Games and Large Unreal/3DS/Adobe Suite work

BTW the i7 is only $70 and I can overclock it as it is a K version... And before I get blasted, the i5 is NOT dying from a bad overclock as it is not a K version and not overclocked.

 

[volkgren]

Usually an Intel CPU is the last thing to die in a system. Why do you think your i5-3570 is about to die? I would suspect the motherboard before the CPU. But CPUs can become defective.

 

[nmb255]

If your chip dies then the i7-3770k is I think the best replacement choice you can make. There may be a couple of xeon processors also that might be compatible. Anything else making sense processor wise means a change of motherboard, which means a change of ram, which adds up to a high cost.

I'm curious why you think it is going to die though. At $70 the i7 is probably a good deal anyway.

 

[Ztdutxjgxgtu]

Its either your mobo or ram dying.
Never seen a defective cpu in use.

 

[nmb255]

Its either your mobo or ram dying.
Never seen a defective cpu in use.

I'd even add the cooler or PSU to that list before the CPU

 

[ezhanson2002]

I think the it is dying due to it not turbo boosting, and throttleing down at random intervals not due to heat along with random freezes (not bluescreens or program freezes, like a hardware freeze where I have to unplug from the wall), randomly failing to post even after new ram but will post after multiple restarts. But, that is besides the point, it is ready to be retired anyways, but I just found a combo deal on a new i7 4770k and some Asus MB with 16gb of ram for 200$ never used, would that be a better purchase than buy an i7 3770 now? Oh and BTW before I get the HDD fail card, I have an SSD, and last time I checked it doesn't take 1 minute to get to the login screen on an SSD, that I tested on a old Dell vostro and worked fine (read and write were within spec speeds). I couldn't even run a Kaspersky Boot Disk... A lightning storm came through and I believe it damaged my Motherboard and CPU, seeing as now only two of my sata ports work now, and other miscellaneous things. Either way, I'm gonna upgrade, cause this i5 can't keep up anymore.

By the way to the guy who said PSU, I tried an old 400 watt outta a prebuilt and it had exactly the same results...

 

[nmb255]

That's plenty more information. If the MB is suspect, there may be no point putting a new chip in it. So the combo deal might be the option to take.

Value/Price you'll need to weigh up. Your conclusion that the i5 is ready for upgrade is probably true. It's a question of how far you upgrade things.

 

[ezhanson2002]

That's plenty more information. If the MB is suspect, there may be no point putting a new chip in it. So the combo deal might be the option to take.

Value/Price you'll need to weigh up. Your conclusion that the i5 is ready for upgrade is probably true. It's a question of how far you upgrade things.

Yeah I'm gonna pull the plug on this 4770k, and try to get it up to around 4.4 - 4.7ish (as temp/voltage allow), seeing as I have had excellent luck in the silicon lottery (A GTX 1070 that OCs to 2250 on the core, STABLE, and an insane memory clock that I can't check