Is my rig worth upgrading

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ebrock1516

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I have a build that consists of an MSI z87-g43 haswell with an i5 4430 and evga 500 psu. My case is falling apart and the fans are dieing so I was gonna order a new case, but I was looking at an upgrade kit of either Intel Core i5-6500 6M Skylake Quad-Core 3.2 GHz LGA 1151, GIGABYTE LGA 1151 H110 Micro ATX MB, Team Elite Plus 8GB DDR4 2133 MEM for $293.....or Intel Core i5-6600K Skylake Quad-Core 3.5Ghz CPU, ASRock Z170 Pro4 LGA 1151 ATX MOBO, G.SKILL NT Series 8GB DDR4 2400 MEM for $372....or should i just order the case and hold off on upgrading due to these upgrades from what I have being so negligible?

 
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the 4th gen core CPUs perform the same (or even better) than 6th gen on the same clock.
so i5-6500 has 400MHz more -> ~12% more. that translates to less than 10% performance in real life.
so just fix your case/fans and upgrade later to something like i7 or whatever AMD will show.
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the 4th gen core CPUs perform the same (or even better) than 6th gen on the same clock.
so i5-6500 has 400MHz more -> ~12% more. that translates to less than 10% performance in real life.
so just fix your case/fans and upgrade later to something like i7 or whatever AMD will show.
 
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One more vote to keep the rig. Replace case and fans. Which GPU do you have, BTW? Unless it is a GTX1060 or better (or RX470/480 or better) you could consider upgrading the GPU instead for more performance. If you don't own an SSD, that's also an option. First one would boost gaming a lot, secound one would boost general performance in Windows a lot.
 
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ebrock1516

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I have the Asus gtx 750ti oc 2gd5. I just added an SSD and you're right, it did boost general performance. Thnx for your quick reply!
 
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ebrock1516

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Yeah, I think you're right. I'll just wait a month or two and add a couple hundred and get an i7 and z170 or z270 and have it last a couple years longer than what the upgrades I was looking at would. Thnx for the timely reply m8
 
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ebrock1516

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I agree, a couple hundred more would add more of an upgrade and a couple years longer to my build. I'll just wait and save a bit more before purchasing upgrades. thnx for the quick response m8!
 
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