Upgrade from i5-3350P to i7-3770 worth it?

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Son Maix

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My specs now:

i5-3350P
ASRock H77 Pro4-M
MSI GTX 970 Gaming
Crucial Ballistix Tactical 2x4 GB DDR3 CL8
120 GB Samsung EVO 840 SSD (OS)
250 GB Samsung EVO 840 SSD (games)

I have an opportunity to buy new i7-3770 tray for 200 euros. Is it worth? Will I gain significantly more fps in GTA V, Watch Dogs and in future games, like Witcher 3, Arkham Knight? And most importantly, will it be enough till second tier of Skylake or not?
 
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My thoughts exactly.

Wait and see what Skylake has to offer before committing yourself to an upgrade.
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bicycle_repair_man

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It's a worthwhile upgrade in general but you're unlikely to see much of an improvement in frame rate. GTA V and The Witcher 3 apparently cater well for multiple threads, but Arkham Knight is a complete unknown. Watch_Dogs is still an unoptimised mess and Ubisoft need to patch it further.
 
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The gains will be small to non-existent. The i7 is only marginally faster and has only marginally more cache. Hyperthreading a quad core shows no real benefit and can even get in the way. If/when being able to run >4 threads at a time becomes a significant advantage octo-cores will be standard and both processors will be outdated. I'd save your money if I were you.
 
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Son Maix

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http://www.geforce.com/games-applications/pc-games/batman-arkham-knight/system-requirements



DirectX 12 in Windows 10 is going to benefit from hyperthreading. Besides if Skylake will be octo-cores too, then running i5-3350P another 2-3 years is not an option. So will i7-3770 be decent in comparison to newer Skylake or old H77 chipset will get in a way?
 
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The point is that's not now though. It's at best by the end of this year, and will only apply to games released that support DX12. There's also only been highly synthetic benchmarks. The thing about hyperthreading is that it's been around over ten years now and it's always been a case of "probably in some time they'll make a game which uses HT technology so it's better to buy a computer with HT"

Hyperthreading should only ever be looked at in terms of what it gives you now, not what you think it'll give you in a few years as the core processor is always superceded by then.

Besides if Skylake will be octo-cores too, then running i5-3350P another 2-3 years is not an option.
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But you're not asking whether to buy an i5 or an i7, you're asking whether to spend €200 now on a i7 or spend €0 keeping the i5, with an apparent view to upgrading to Skylake anyway. I don't see what you really gain from spending that money now if you're already intending to upgrade within a couple of years.

(Edit as hadn't realised it was the OP I was replying to!)
 
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I'm already aware of the system requirements for Arkham Knight but it's still too early to say if an i7 will offer a tangible benefit over an i5 from the same processor line. Until people have gotten their hands on Arkham Knight and tested its multi-threaded performance, it remains a complete unknown.

Ubisoft did this with Black Flag; they recommended a quad-core processor but the game ran just as well on a dual-core processor.

Don't forget that your processor is two generations ahead of the minimum requirement.
 
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Yes you will gain some fps but not much,probably 5 -10 fps boost in GTA V and Watch Dogs.For other games we cant tell yet since we dont know how well they are optimized.But you you will see improvement in many games.Right now you CPU is holding GTX 970 back a little so i7 3770 will remove that.
 
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Son Maix

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So basically you are saying, that this purchase is pointless. I will benefit very little and sooner or later will eventually still get over to Skylake?
 
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Skylake is due to be released in october 2015. I have money for new CPU and motherboard right now, but fully upgrading to LGA 1150 then later this year LGA 1151 is released seems even more foolish. So basically I need to decide, whether to upgrade a little bit in a wait of Skylake, or be patient.

http://wccftech.com/intel-6th-generation-skylake-s-processors-officially-confirmed-core-i76700k-core-i56600k-coming-q3-2015/

CPU is new, Tray OEM. And I forgot to mention, that I will keep my motherboard, CPU and RAM from this build, and pair them with my old MSI GTX 660 to have a second gaming pc at my job for older games :) And that means I will either have an i5 or i7 build to keep.
 
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