Upgrading from a i5-2400 to a i5-3570k worth it?

jpnumber1 · Dec 26, 2013

Well title says it all, i currently have a i5-2400(no k) and i was wondering if upgrading to a i5 3570k will be worth the money.

I mainly play games. One of the games being DayZ which is very CPU based at the moment.

GPU:Sapphire radeon 7870
CPU: i5-2400
PSU: 700w
MB: PEGATRON 2AC2 socket 1155
RAM: 8 GB

spentshells · Dec 26, 2013

You will experience no notable performance increase.

Look at a new GPU

Sevenater · Dec 26, 2013

Really depends weather or not you will be overclocking, but even then, the 3570k is a good idea, it's pretty future proof seeing as you can overclock later if you don't want to now, it's really worth it.

MC_K7 · Dec 26, 2013

I don't think this is really worth it. There's not a big difference between the two. You would have to heavily overclock the 3570K to see a difference, and even so I'm not sure it's worth the money.

Are you getting poor performance or poor FPS in DayZ?

By the way even if it's not a "K" you can still overclock your 2400 a little bit.

nekulturny · Dec 26, 2013

No, its not really worth it, even if you factor in overclocking. Unless you plan to do something with that 2400, you're just going to have a $190 paperweight. What a waste, especially since the i5-3570K itself is now a generation old.

nekulturny · Dec 26, 2013

MC_K7 :

Very bad idea to overclock at the reference clock on Intel Sandy/Ivy/Haswell systems, don't do it.

spentshells · Dec 26, 2013

I gotta agree with that but most cases you can just permanently enable turbo boost.

jaguarskx · Dec 26, 2013

Pegatron motherboards are used in HP computers. There will be no overclocking features so there is no reason to get an i5-3570k CPU.

The going from an i5-2400 to an i5-3570 is an increase of 300MHz (3.4GHz vs 3.1GHz) at the base clockspeed and an increase of 400MHz at max Turbo Boost speed (3.8GHz vs 3.4GHz). Also, Ivy Bridge provides an average 6% increase in performance over Sandy Bridge CPUs.

That means the Ivy Bridge generation i5-3570 running at 3.4GHz is equal to a Sandy Bridge running at 3.6GHz at the base clockspeed and at max Turbo Boost of 3.8GHz the i5-3570 would be equal to a Sandy Bridge i5 running at 4.0GHz. Overall, this means you will get the equivalent of a 500MHz boost to the base clockspeed (16.1%) and a 600MHz boost to max Turbo Boost speed (17.6%).

This is assuming the Pegatron motherboard is able to support an Ivy Bridge generation CPU.

Master-flaw · Dec 26, 2013

From what I hear that Day-Z game runs like crap(even worse than Arma 3)...I wouldn't upgrade for it as you may note get any frame increase at all. A lot of the bottleneck is server side and your GPU and CPU have nothing to do with it.

Was playing Arma 3(same engine) the other night with a friend who has a 4770K clocked@4.0...his game wasn't playable as mine on a 8350...needless to say his CPU should be smoking mine frame wise and does in the SP...but it just goes to show how wonky these servers are.

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