i7 2600k or 8320e? i5 not cutting it anymore

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WhiteSnake91

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I game and multitask alot and also stream and more and more I notice my i5 3570k getting to 100% usage, and I don't even stream at high settings, only like 540p at ~700 bitrate (doesn't look as horrible as you'd imagine, I can't go any higher, my lame ISP has a GB monthly cap)

anyway, I have long thought about getting a cheap used i7 2600k, and the plus is I wouldn't have to reformat my OS swapping out the i7 for the i5. I'm just not personally sure how well the 4 cores plus HT would fare against the 8 AMD cores, although they're much weaker per core. Biggest con for me with the AMD would be having to do a fresh install of windows, I just dread doing the entire process again of getting everything set up.

Anybody here with experience with the 2600k multitasking, gaming, and streaming? Or the fx 8320 or 8320e? I like the newer 8320e since it uses less power and could work on a cheaper 95w mobo.

I have thought about a 1230 1155 socket xeon cpu, essentially an i7 without integrated graphics...but I like having the peace of mind incase my gpu were to die that I'd still have integrated graphics to do light gaming on and be able to use the pc.

I'm not a fanboy of either company tbh, have used both in the past...used to have a Phenom x6 pc at 3.5ghz and didn't notice much of a real world difference between it and my (on paper) much stronger i5 3570k pc...I don't play single thread intensive games, and if I do, it's super casually like a co op vs a.i. match with a friend on Starcraft 2, nothing super tryhard where I'd need 60fps
 
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the 10-20 bucks for the 2600k would then tide you over until zen turns up, if it's no good you've lost nothing, if it's good then you've lost 20$

the 2600k will OC a lot better than the 3770k too.
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PatrioticPickle

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Going to a AMD processor would be a downgrade over the 3570k, Single threaded performance is horrible. But it will probably stream decently, but that being said you will probably get lower FPS in most games with it anyway.
Without changing motherboard, a 3770k would be your best option

You might be better off upgrading your 660 to something better like a 1060 and using shadowplay or something to record/stream which takes the stress of the CPU a bit.
 
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Neither - if you're going to spend your hard-earned cash, don't boost multi-core performance, just to cripple your single-core - that's not an upgrade in my book. You should also never replace newer gen parts with older. The only worthwhile upgrades here would be Skylake i5, Skylake i7, or possibly Haswell i7.
 
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I've been wanting to either get the rx 480 pr gtx 1060, although both have been sold out since release every time I checked and 3rd party scalpers have priced gouged both badly. Leaning more toward the 480 since I heard it will fare better in the future with dx12,vulkan, and the async compute, as well as having more vram.

I'll have chrome up with tabs, a voip, maybe music, steam, and the game running. I figured the i5 could handle it, but I guess having just 4 cores doesn't cut it these days. My most recent troubling game has been GTA 5, on medium/high settings on some stuff, cpu is at 100% and getting random stuttering. In an ideal world the i5 would be good enough, but I chalk it up to things going multithreaded and also badly optimized ports.

I have somewhat been holding out for Zen, even if it's at sandy bridge ipc that would be good enough for me, I heard rumors of it being haswell level which would be even better if I could get a 6 core/12 thread zen cpu cheap.

A plus for the 2600k is I could roughly sell my i5 for what the i7 costs, so it'll cost me 10-20 bucks at the most for the i7, maybe balance out. I would like the 3770k, but even years later, people think they can charge full retail price for them...I don't think it's worth 100+ bucks over a 2600k, its ipc was only like 10% better going from sandy to ivy bridge.
 
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What 13th monkey said. Don't know how many times I have heard somebody say my comp is slow while a crapton of stuff is running in the background.Check taskmanager to see whats in there. I also run ccleaner to clean out the junk-sometimes gives a little boost. Your processor while not the latest and greatest is still quite capable.
 
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