Upgrade from i5 2500 Sandy Bridge to a i5 4670K Haswell?

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Personally, I think the minimum requirements for The Witcher 3 are vastly overstated; I can't believe that an i5 2500k is the minimum-required processor?! It'll be interesting to see how the game fares on different hardware when reviewers get hold of it.

As said, I'd wait for the new 14nm processors to be released before considering an upgrade. My only reservation is that Intel are pushing more energy-efficient processors and the die shrink will yield lower overclocks, but we'll see.

If the new 14nm processors don't work out, consider upgrading to an i7 3770 or a Xeon 1230v2 instead.
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Karsten75

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I have an i5 sandy bridge and I definitely believe it's not worth the hassle to upgrade. Why would you want to upgrade? It should yield approximately 18-23% increased performance (depending if you have an i5-2500 or i5-2500k)

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Edit, I suggest you wait until Broadwell becomes available later this year. That's when I'm intending to upgrade. My Sandy Bridge is a "family PC", having been replaced by newer and stronger PCs in other roles. Come Summer, when Broadwell may be available, I'll get a new high-end PC and all the PCs in my house will roll over one and the Sandy Bridge will get to Craigslist. :)
 
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OriginalCadaver

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Yes, that's what I meant by waiting is that the performance is not worth the hassle. Wait to upgrade or build a new rig altogether. Yes it is a better, faster CPU, but I just don't think the bump in performance is worth the time and money you will be spending.
 
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bicycle_repair_man

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Personally, I think the minimum requirements for The Witcher 3 are vastly overstated; I can't believe that an i5 2500k is the minimum-required processor?! It'll be interesting to see how the game fares on different hardware when reviewers get hold of it.

As said, I'd wait for the new 14nm processors to be released before considering an upgrade. My only reservation is that Intel are pushing more energy-efficient processors and the die shrink will yield lower overclocks, but we'll see.

If the new 14nm processors don't work out, consider upgrading to an i7 3770 or a Xeon 1230v2 instead.
 
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Glxyhh

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Upgrading from that CPU would make zero sense whatsoever, as
one: they're both i5's so the performance gain would be minimal
two: you would have to upgrade your motherboard aswell
If you feel like you don't have enough processing power, which I highly doubt, I would suggest to wait a little for the 5XXX series, or save some money and get a:
decent board overclocking board paired w/ a i7 4770K or 4790K
or
get basically the board you feel comfortable with paired with a 4 core 8 thread Xeon (1231V3 1230V3 and some more I can't think of right now)
With those processors the power is more than enough for gaming and plenty for editing aswell.

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@Karsten75
4670K is not Devils Canyon,
4690 is.
 
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Undying89

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But you are wrong. My 2500k at 4.8Ghz will beat 4690k stock anytime. We can easily benchmark if you have one? :D
 
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cmi86

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It really depends on whether or not the 2500 is still serving it's purpose, is it ? Do you need your CPU to be faster or just want it to be ? Are there certain features on a Z97 board that interest you like M2 or PCI-e 3.0 ? I wouldn't get too excited about broadwell. I bet my hat it will just be yet another meaningless die shrink with a slightly lower TDP,5-ish percent IPC improvement, More heat and less overclock headroom. IMHO SB was the pinnacle of the "Core iX" architecture, everything since then has basically just been a die shrink.
 
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That is like saying my 2,200 HP 1986 camaro dragster can blow the doors off of your bone stock 375 HP 2015 camaro.. I don't understand what your point is comparing a heavily overclocked chip to one running at bone stock? DC is about 20% faster clock for clock than SB due to small IPC improvements throughout the past generations. That is just a fact that you cannot deny.
 
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