Is it worth upgrading my cpu anytime soon?

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I have an i5-4670 and I was just wondering if it was worth upgrading at some point in the near future. At the moment all I do if browse Internet, write documents, write programmes, and play recently released games
 
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No. Skylake only adds ~7% improvement against haswell.

I'd say you have a good 3 years left in that chip before you NEED to upgrade. WANT is entirely different. :)
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I would say no. I have the K version of that CPU. I have everything I would need to overclock it, but everything runs so fast, that I have never felt I needed anything faster here. So I am probably going to sit back for another year or two, and let Intel continue to produce better, smaller, and hopefully faster CPU's.
 
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Definitely not! Your Cpu is still one of the best CPU's Intel has to offer! There is Definitely No need to upgrade now, Wait a few more years, and maybe you'll need an upgrade!
 
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Well, I think those days are well into the past now. The best CPU Intel has to offer now needs a Z170 motherboard, DDR4 memory, and a Skylake CPU.

Some Haswell CPU's are already going out of stock. The end of Haswell is nigh (soon).
 
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Haswell ia single generation behind skylake - the haswell Refresh/Devilscanyon and broadwell all fall under haswell architecture - essentially tweaks such as TIM and die shrink.

If you look at Sandy Bridge, e.g.i5 2500k that was released 58 months ago , it still performs great as a gaming CPU for all recent titles. Your Haswell CPU will be great for gaming for a good few years yet - as Sandy Bridge demonstrated. If i were you i'd wait for Cannon Lake or see what AMD's Zen/Zen+ in 2017, the timing just isnt right and you'd not be getting the mileage from your current CPU.
 
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Broadwell is Intel's codename for the 14 nanometer die shrink of its Haswell microarchitecture. It is a "tick" in Intel's tick-tock principle as the next step in semiconductor fabrication.[1][2][3] Unlike the previous tick-tock iterations, Broadwell will not completely replace the full range of CPUs from the previous microarchitecture (Haswell)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Intel_CPU_microarchitectures

It is marketed as a 'generation' however it's micro-architecture is haswell on 14nm.

If we base codenames as generations, skylake would be 14th generation.
 
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