i5-2400 to i7-2600 upgrade worth it?

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Hi all,

I have a Dell XPS 8300 from 2011. It has an i5-2400, 12GB of DDR3-1333, and an 850 Evo 500GB SSD supplementing the stock WD Blue 1TB 7200rpm drive. When I went from the stock HD 5670 to a GTX 760 a few years ago, it got a Cooler Master Elite v2 550W PSU. As of yesterday, it has ditched the 760 for a GTX 1070. I am running a 1440p monitor.

I am fully aware of the fact that any Sandy Bridge CPU is going to bottleneck modern GPUs while gaming. However, I'd like to minimize that bottleneck as much as possible. I have been wondering: would an upgrade to an i7-2600 make a difference? And would going to an i7-2700k at stock speed (the board is H67 so I can't OC) make any sense?
 
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Yes it would give you improvements, the 2700k isn't worth it however, the 2700k only offers a very tiny speed advantage over the 2600.
For $60 it's a worthwhile upgrade until you can afford to replace your CPU etc.
You can always wait till Cannonlake. :)
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The OEM Dell motherboard actually doesn't support Ivy Bridge. 2000-series only, unfortunately. And so you're saying the i7-2600 is worth it?
 
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How much are you getting it for?
Given you're going to need to upgrade eventually, I'd either A. buy a 2600 used at say $100-150 or something, or save up and get a 7700k mobo CPU RAM combo with 16GB of RAM.
Then you can gut the internals of the old one, drag over the key stuff provided you get a new PSU (Your current isn't very good), get a new copy of windows for the new motherboard as the it will not work properly with a different motherboard.
 
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I mean I would probably be able to get a 2600 for $120 or so, and I would be able to sell my 2400 for about $60, so it would be ~$60 net for the upgrade. My question is whether that would get me any performance increases gaming with a GTX 1070, and if so, are they like 1-2 FPS or are they worth the $60?
 
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Whoops I missed this while I was replying to the other poster.

OK, good to know. Would a 2700k at non-OC speeds be measurably better?
 
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Yes it would give you improvements, the 2700k isn't worth it however, the 2700k only offers a very tiny speed advantage over the 2600.
For $60 it's a worthwhile upgrade until you can afford to replace your CPU etc.
You can always wait till Cannonlake. :)
 
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Makes sense. And yeah I'll probably wait until Intel finally has 10nm desktop CPUs. That'll give me plenty of time, lol.
 
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