Which Intel CPU should I replace mine with?

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Hi everyone,

I currently have the Intel i5-3570K CPU @3.40GHz and am looking for an ultra CPU that would be 3 - 4 times as powerful and fast. I've been looking for about six months, but I haven't really come across any that strike me as truly powerful. Though admittedly I've been looking at the GHz and the number of cores within the CPU. As I was really hoping to get an eight core, but apparently the only one Intel makes isn't worth the money.

I'm looking for this ultra powerful CPU so that I can run apps like Premiere Pro, Photoshop, After Effects, Maya, MS Word, have a few dozen tabs open in Firefox, and run Fallout 4. An, yes, I do often tend to have most if not all of those open at the same time.

I don't mind waiting until later in the year if the CPU is not available yet, I'm just hoping to get some options as my search as come up rather short.

Please let me know.

Thank you!

Mike
 
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I think you should do a little more reading before you ask such a question. The 3570K is quite a powerful CPU; "three to four times as powerful" isn't quantified by core count and clock and doesn't exist anyway. For gaming and general use, upgrading will likely give you a negligible performance boost. For Premiere, AE, and Photoshop, they may receive a significant performance boost if you upgrade to an i7 (i7 6700k for example) and utilize hyperthreading with these programs. Whether the performace boost is worth the upgrade cost is entirely up to you. I'm sure your current CPU is capable of these tasks as well.

That said, I'm personally waiting for Kaby Lake i7.
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Hi Mantad,

I appreciate the insight, however I'm partial to Intel as per the title of my question. I also find it rather convenient that you were very specific regard the AMD CPU, but were vague regarding the Intel CPU. So while I appreciate the insight, I'm going to stay with Intel. By the way I purposely left out my "budget" because I'm saving up for this, so budget does not currently come into play.

Thank you for trying though.
 
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sort answer CPUs only increase by 10-20% each generation at most so a 4-5x performance increase doesn't exist.

If you are looking for more cores on the Intel side then look at the Haswell-E series and the upcoming (1st or 2nd quarter 2016) Broadwell-E series. Those ones have 6+ cores in them.
 
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I think you should do a little more reading before you ask such a question. The 3570K is quite a powerful CPU; "three to four times as powerful" isn't quantified by core count and clock and doesn't exist anyway. For gaming and general use, upgrading will likely give you a negligible performance boost. For Premiere, AE, and Photoshop, they may receive a significant performance boost if you upgrade to an i7 (i7 6700k for example) and utilize hyperthreading with these programs. Whether the performace boost is worth the upgrade cost is entirely up to you. I'm sure your current CPU is capable of these tasks as well.

That said, I'm personally waiting for Kaby Lake i7.
 
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