i5 760@4.2 ghz upgrade or wait

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Would there be a good performance jump in an upgrade. Im seeing that new new set of cpus main improvements are for integrated graphics so its not worth waiting for. I mainly play bf4 and a variety of single player games
 
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Yes, it's safe to say the mainstream platform will continue to get better integrated graphics, but even if skylake (note that broadwell still comes out before skylake) only get an 10% gain in cpu power compared to broadwell, you would still be looking at a about 70% stronger cpu compared to...

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A lot of people with same era cpu as you are looking to upgrade when the skylake cpus come out, in a year or so.
No specs have been revealed yet but it should provide a big enough jump in performance.
 

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Are these going to be worth waiting for. I've read that their main boosts will be power consumption and integrated graphics power. Doesn't seem like a big switch over the current generation for people who use dedicated gpus for gaming
 

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Yes, it's safe to say the mainstream platform will continue to get better integrated graphics, but even if skylake (note that broadwell still comes out before skylake) only get an 10% gain in cpu power compared to broadwell, you would still be looking at a about 70% stronger cpu compared to your current one.
It's of course entirely possible that you can continue to game on your old i5 just fine, but the theoretical power increase will be fairly decent.
 
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empier1988

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70% over my i5-760...but how much over the current i5s that are out right now?
 

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If your system runs fine don't bother yet. I tried that before and now have 3 systems to choose from for gaming. An Ivy-bridge i5-3570K @4.2GHz, a Sandy-Bridge-E i7-3930K @ 4.2GHz and a Haswell i7-4770K @ 4.2GHz. Two of these systems have GTX titans and the other system has an R9 290, gaming performance-wise I cannot tell them apart and neither can synthetic benchmarks. It's going to be quite a while before I upgrade again, I hope.
 

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Probably 10-15% maybe higher, but impossible to say until they are released.
 

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So current i5's are about 50-60% increase over my i5
 

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An i5-760@4ghz is like an i5 2500k @ stock, there isn't a 60% increase in performance between a 2500k and a 4690k. 30% in a optimal situation, in gaming the difference is even less important. Frankly i wouldn't upgrade to another i5, I would make the jump to an i7, that will get you a really good boost, + 4 more threads for games that use it them and a much more future proof cpu, there is still a debate about the influence of consoles and the number of threads required for console ports.
 

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Since his current cpu is overclocked I also assume he will overclock the cpu he buys next.
Depending on the situation you get different results, in some tests the i5-4690k is only 30% faster in some it's 60% faster.

Cinebench r15 is a pretty popular benchmark. http://www.bit-tech.net/hardware/2014/07/03/intel-core-i5-4690k-review/6

As you can see a i5-4690k @4.8 ghz is 56% faster than a 2500k at stock. This is when testing the 4 cores on both chips.

But yes depending on what kind of games you enjoy, the 760 is still enough for most of them. If you play a lot of strategy games, like the Total war series, You might want to upgrade a little sooner than most.

But yea a lot of people on this board favour the i5 as the cpu of choice for the gamer. I personally would opt for a xeon or i7.