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Petras86

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Hello,

So turns out I've fried my 3570k... I have two working LGA1155 mobos which I could sell, or I could just buy another 1155 CPU. Are the gains worth it? Is anything "revolutionary" coming out soon and I should wait?
I was looking at AMDs today, but they are still catching up apparently...
I have around £400 ($680) max for this.

Thanks!
 
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The next revolutionary thing may be the Broadwell processors (next year?) but it may just be more of the same. The 3570k is still a very good CPU so I don't see any reason not to just get a new cpu to throw on your existing motherboards. Or you could grab a i7 3770k if you think that games will use the hyperthreading any time soon.
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With $680, you could easily get a new i5-4690k and a matching Z97 board. Gains will probably be around 10-20% from your 3570k (assuming stock, and the performance gain is similar to the ~10% or so gain going from the 3570k to the 4670k). And with good cooling, the 4690k will be able to overclock much further than Haswell.
 
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The next revolutionary thing may be the Broadwell processors (next year?) but it may just be more of the same. The 3570k is still a very good CPU so I don't see any reason not to just get a new cpu to throw on your existing motherboards. Or you could grab a i7 3770k if you think that games will use the hyperthreading any time soon.
 
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Petras86

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Thanks for replies guys =]
Last speed of that 3570k was 4.6GHz...
About that Win OEM: I've had a BIOS flashing disaster around a year ago with Z77X-D3H rev1.0, so I ended up buyng same model rev1.1 and Win7 booted like nothing happened. Would it get "locked" with different mainboard? I'm not that rich to play by MS licensing rules...=]
 
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