i5-3350P vs i7-2600

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Hi,

Computer setup:
Intel Core i5-3350P 3.1GHZ | ARCTIC Freezer 13 CPU Cooler | Motherboard:
GIGABYTE GA-Z77-D3H | Kingston HyperX Fury 2x8GB 1866MHz DDR3 | ASUS R9 280X
3GB | Kingston HyperX Fury 240GB SSD | Silicon Power S60 240GB SSD | Seagate
Barracuda 2TB | Corsair TX850M | DELL S2415H 24"

I currently have an i5-3350P CPU installed in my system and I find it a decent CPU, But I recently got an i7-2600 CPU in order to build another secondary PC. I was thinking if it's worth it to swap the CPUs and install the i7 in my main PC and put the i5 in the secondary one.. Is the performance gain worth it? What about memory performance? Will I miss any features from the Ivy bridge by switching to Sandy bridge?
I mainly game/render videos and do some programming work.

I'd be glade to hear what do you think?
 
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Here is a fairly good direct comparison between the two chips:

http://cpu.userbenchmark.com/Compare/Intel-Core-i7-2600K-vs-Intel-Core-i5-3350P/621vsm3018

You will lose PCI-E 3.0 support as Sandy Bridge only does 2.0, but that's not really a big deal. You will also see a 4GB/s drop in maximum memory bandwidth as SB only supports up to DDR3-1333 compared to Ivy Bridges DDR3-1600, but again that should not make too big a difference.

Overall I'd say that if you render a lot of video, then making the switch is a no-brainer. In fact, I am currently looking to swap out my i5 3570K for an i7 2600K for exactly the same reasons.
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The i7 is 3.4 up to 3.8GHz while the i5 is 3.1 up to 3.3Ghz though.. do you think the switch is still worth it considering the heat/power consumption increase?
 
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Here is a fairly good direct comparison between the two chips:

http://cpu.userbenchmark.com/Compare/Intel-Core-i7-2600K-vs-Intel-Core-i5-3350P/621vsm3018

You will lose PCI-E 3.0 support as Sandy Bridge only does 2.0, but that's not really a big deal. You will also see a 4GB/s drop in maximum memory bandwidth as SB only supports up to DDR3-1333 compared to Ivy Bridges DDR3-1600, but again that should not make too big a difference.

Overall I'd say that if you render a lot of video, then making the switch is a no-brainer. In fact, I am currently looking to swap out my i5 3570K for an i7 2600K for exactly the same reasons.
 
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