3570k @4.5. Is it silly to upgrade?
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SquirrelPhantom
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That is still a very good CPU and with that overclock, it wouldn't be worth upgrading. That is still a kick-butt CPU for gaming purposes.
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Yes, rumors are that Skylake will finally give us some real power. Broadwell may be another five percenter. Time will tell though. About the only thing that could stress your CPU would be something like Battlefield 4.
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Not if you count the i7-4790k
But that would be barely even (not counting HT or OCing the 4790k) so not really worth bothering with.
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Most games rely heavily on single-threaded performance so your i5-3570k would likely be better most of the time.
This is assuming your frame rate is not capped by vsync in the first place.
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Once your frame rate is capped by vsync (as in your CPU+GPU are already powerful enough to make frame rates stick to your refresh rate or very close to it) then making it faster does not matter much since it mostly increases the time the CPU+GPU spend waiting after vsync.
Well, at least until more intensive games come along or resolutsion/refresh goes up and something (other than vsync) becomes the bottleneck again.
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