Not Sure Its CPU Upgrade Time Yet, Thoughts?

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devilhanzou

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I currently have an I5-3470 (OC'ed At 4.0Ghz Respectively:)), with an ASRock Pro-3 MOBO, 16GB 1600GHZ RAM, and a 7870 GPU. From what I can see on the CPU Hierarchy chart if I would like to spend in the 120-180 range for the CPU, and around 100 for the MOBO its not really worth it yet. What does toms wonderful community think? Any other ideas, one things I do need is a SSD I am thinking around 150-250GB, suggestions?
 
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There is no reason to upgrade from that Cpu. If it's a pure performance issue, I'd say you have at least 3 years before even thinking about it, and that's at stock speeds let alone the overclock you have going for you. The other factor is when mainstream Cpu's start appearing with DDR4 motherboards.

As has been said though, an SSD will make your system feel "snappier" overall, and would be a great upgrade considering the pricing of them right now.
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It's definitely not worth upgrading, specially with a $180 budget for the CPU. The best you could get is an i5-4460, which is at best a 5% upgrade. I'd stick to the 3470 for the time being. You'd see a better improvement by upgrading the GPU, although you'd need to get something better than the 270X to make it an actual upgrade.
 
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There is no reason to upgrade from that Cpu. If it's a pure performance issue, I'd say you have at least 3 years before even thinking about it, and that's at stock speeds let alone the overclock you have going for you. The other factor is when mainstream Cpu's start appearing with DDR4 motherboards.

As has been said though, an SSD will make your system feel "snappier" overall, and would be a great upgrade considering the pricing of them right now.
 
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I'm not even thinking about upgrading my 2600K I bought the week it was released in January 2011 yet. If you have Sandy Bridge or newer unless you are going from an i3 or low end i5 to a 'K' model i5 or i7 then it's not enough of an upgrade to notice.

Get a 250-500GB SSD. Best upgrade for the money for overall system responsiveness. A 500GB Samsung 850 Evo can be found for less than $200 now.
 
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Usually in order to see any worthwhile difference in upgrading a cpu it needs to be at least 2-3 generations newer than what you currently have. At least from my experience and opinion. At the earliest, skylake might be something to consider although you could probably hold out for whatever comes after skylake without any real lack of performance. As it is, the 2500k is 2 generations and 4yrs old and even though it might be slightly slower than a 4th gen i5 4690k it's still holding its' own in current games and applications. The biggest difference you'd notice upgrading just 1 generation in cpu's is the cost.
 
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Thanks for backing me up. Sometimes it just feels weird now a days that you can go so long without upgrades for peformance, than you could 5-10 years ago, were every 2-4 years something usually needed to be done. 1
 
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