upgrade to i5 now or wait??

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dheeraj9933

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I currently have an i3 3220 and can upgrade the cpu to an i5 of 3rd gen right now or wait a few years.
ACU is currently the only game that maxes it out but with next gen that could maybe change.
The thing is ivy bridge is been out for 2-3 years now and i dont wanna have to upgrade my cpu again for atleast 3-4 years.
So should i wait for like broadwell or skylake or just upgrade to an i5 now which would be cheaper,
cuz i already have a mother board, but im afraid it may not last as long.
wat do u guys think??
 
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ingtar33

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broadwell isn't going to come out on desktop. the next desktop chip will be skylake. and it's coming out in a year. how about you hold off for 12 months and upgrade to skylake.
 
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Well the current i5/i7 lineup does not bottleneck current video cards, and you would not need a new motherboard. My vote goes to buying something for your current motherboard honestly in a K-edition so you can overclock when you need more cpu muscle in a year or two(maybe longer).
 
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haha,
im using a really cheap motherboard!
H61!!
what i really wanted to ask was how long do u guys think an i5 2nd or 3rd gen will last for gaming?
like dual cores lasted pretty long, even now only 1 game maxes it.
so if i wanna wait or not depends on how long is an i5 of ivy/ sandy bridge is gonna last ?
if it lasts 3 years ill go with that, since it is cheaper.
BTw, i cant overclock it. i live in a very hot country!!
 
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Intel (or the reporters) have changed their story so many times I think it's all irrelevant until I can hold it in my hand. Whether or not broadwell ends up on desktop or not or if it goes to skylake or what the real deal is. Many have said intel's moving to a 2yr cycle which would make more sense since it's pretty obvious it's not worth upgrading but every few years. People are sick of the hype and hardware is approaching speeds that rival the human limits. The only thing at this point huge hardware is needed for is bloated applications. Eventually video 4k, 5k, etc etc will die off as well just like colors on the screen stopped at 32 bit. They were scheduled to move to 48bit color depth but realized there's no point since 32bit color depth is already beyond human perception. The human eye can only see so many colors or perceive so much clarity before it's just pointless numbers. That's why most of the push of improvements have been toward refinement in terms of die shrinkage and power consumption rather than raw performance.
 
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That's what I opted for was an i5 now. Just for what it is, not for what I could switch it with in just a year or two. My cpu's generally last me quite well for a number of years. That might be a personal needs/preference thing. As far as waiting for skylake (even assuming broadwell flakes out for desktop), from my understand it will have little performance increase and will be focused on the die shrink, lower power consumption, a few other things like gesture controls and realsense or whatever it is. It may be the bees knees but it sounds a little gimmicky for me.

If your i3 is fullfilling your needs, keep it. If you truly need an upgrade I'd go with an i5. I managed on an e8400 c2d on the lga 775 up til now and it's quite a bit older than that i3.
 
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I think the confusion comes from the socketed lga/ soldered BGA distinction. Intel has made it clear for 2+ years now that broadwell would only exist in soldered BGA format. that said there will be desktop releases in that format (like all in one pcs and the like)

since Intel talks about "desktop broadwell" people are confused and thing there is a LGA 1150 release coming, but that's not what any of their marketing material has claimed since 2013. Even now if you look at their broadwell release marketing material is the zero talk of an LGA release, it's all BGA parts. They're planning to leave Haswell out there for an extended period of time until skylake comes out

and yes, skylake will have LGA parts, whether it's on the lga 1150 socket or not is still up for debate.
 
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