Ivy (i5-3470) upgrade help. Haswell, Broadwell, or Skylake?

blacklabel8829 · Oct 13, 2015

I currently have an Ivy Bridge i5-3470 and am looking at upgrading to a newer i5 or the slight possibility of an i7.

I know with any CPU upgrade from Ivy I am also going to need to upgrade my mobo as everything newer has a different socket. And of course, if I went sky like I would also need new DDR4 memory. So a lot of cost factors to consider.

I use my PC for gaming, local gaming recording, and podcasting.

So, what is the best cost to performance upgrade in your opinion?

glamdringfh · Oct 13, 2015

Cost to performance would be Haswell.

Cost for longevity will be Skylake. I'd go Skylake if you could, as it also will afford you new features like USB 3.1, M.2 SSD slots, and the most recent built-in audio hardware.

Edit:

Here is a great 'Should you Upgrade to Skylake?' article from Tom's, it might help make up your mind:

http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/faq/id-2752766/skylake-upgrade.html

joex444 · Oct 13, 2015

Broadwell isn't a good choice from an availability stand-point; plus with it being the same socket as Haswell means it's a dead-end, but so is Haswell.

The cheapest you could do this would be to get a high end Haswell (probably Devil's Canyon to be more precise) and a nice Z97 board. Since you can reuse your RAM, it would save you the cost of DDR4. However, DDR4 is coming down pretty fast and getting 16GB of DDR4 isn't prohibitively expensive.

I think it depends on what RAM you currently have. If you have 8GB of high quality DDR3 and you would go to Devil's Canyon and toss in another 8GB to give you 16GB that's probably going to be cheaper than Skylake + 16GB DDR4. I doubt you'd be happy with 8GB in a few years, and since you're coming from Ivy Bridge we know that you probably want to hold on to your system for a few years.

I really doubt a 4790K is going to feel slow within a few years, especially if you get a bit of an overclock on it.

blacklabel8829 · Oct 13, 2015

glamdringfh :

I know Skylake would afford the longevity, just having trouble justifying the price for that upgrade. Not to mention if I would even be taking advantage of most of those new features any time soon.

blacklabel8829 · Oct 13, 2015

joex444 :

I do currently have good quality (G.Skill) 16GB RAM (4x4GB). So really at this point it's Haswell/mobo, or Skylake/mobo/ram. Starting to feel more and more like Haswell might be the answer until a full rebuild is needed.

glamdringfh · Oct 13, 2015

Sounds like it. Haswell will provide several more years worth of perfectly competive performance before you see it falling away.

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