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JediMa

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My hardware is getting old pafter few years so I was considering to renew and upgrade it.
At the moment i I have I7 3770k , Asus P8 Z77-V Pro and 16 GB corsair 1600.
Is it still decent? If not should from what CPU should I consider? Then maiboard and ram come easy

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Karadjgne
most ppl who are updating from high-end Ivy Bridge are doing so for a reason (even if that reason is in their own minds). Some have needs for better rendering ability, they YouTube channel host etc. Some simply have too many parts that really need upgrading, so start all over. Some just have a need for the latest and greatest and have cash to spare. So there are some valid reasons for a major system upgrade, and some impulse decisions for sure, but with what you have for a base, an i7-3770k, gtx 1070, good monitor, nice sound and the thing works, and works well, you are really down to the last, simple, Biggest reason of all. "I just want something new", when honestly, your pc is a lot better performing than the vast majority of 'budget...
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Stubbies

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Ivy Bridge isn't that old or bad. Esp since you already have the i7 version of Ivy Bridge you wouldn't see a huge difference in CPU performance. The bigger difference would be what a new motherboard would have and not the CPU itself. If you are fine with what the motherboard does probably best to take that money and put it into a GPU.
 
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Yes, if you OC that sucker you'll still be up there in performance terms.

I'd save cash until it's really letting you down or it's not making specs, by then AMD will definitely have socket AM4 out - looks to be some great multithreaded performers and price/performance winners out there based on what I know. If that doesn't satisfy you, Intel will still do their tick-tock and could be out with 10nm when it's really time for you to upgrade.
 
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Karadjgne

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Got my 3770k sitting at 4.6GHz, I've had it to 4.9GHz. Honestly there's nothing that that cpu can't do as well as even a new kaby-lake. The gains kaby-lake show over Ivy are minimal at best, in games there's no difference at all. It's only in production that kaby-lake wins, when the cpu is what's most important, not the gpu. Unless you render (or something else similarly cpu dependent) semi or even pro, where minutes count, a 1 hr render on a Ivy vrs a 54minute render on a kaby-lake really doesn't amount to much. As said earlier, it's what the mobo brings that really can make the difference. Better Bluetooth, better audio, native NVMe drive support etc. If you are still content with a plain jane data 3 ssd for a boot drive, not that big into the audio, have plenty of fans and a decent gpu, don't really have a need for usb3.1 capability etc then kaby-lake just has a bunch of unusable bonuses.
 
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JediMa

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Very interesting comments, thanks guys.
About GPU I have a GTX 1070 with an Asus MG279Q monitor and for sound a Sound Blaster Omni Surround 5.1, case is a NZXT big tower with good fans.
I'm not so experienced in OC I just used the mainboard one , set on Turbo.
The concern is/was more bout the motherboard as Stubbies and Karadjgne guessed. So I've a still ok cpu but a nowadays crap of mainboard and ram...
It seems then I would only waste lot of money to have a real improvement only with mainboard.

 
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Karadjgne

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most ppl who are updating from high-end Ivy Bridge are doing so for a reason (even if that reason is in their own minds). Some have needs for better rendering ability, they YouTube channel host etc. Some simply have too many parts that really need upgrading, so start all over. Some just have a need for the latest and greatest and have cash to spare. So there are some valid reasons for a major system upgrade, and some impulse decisions for sure, but with what you have for a base, an i7-3770k, gtx 1070, good monitor, nice sound and the thing works, and works well, you are really down to the last, simple, Biggest reason of all. "I just want something new", when honestly, your pc is a lot better performing than the vast majority of 'budget builds' and pretty much everything AMD has to offer.

Enjoy it, its a great PC and definitely good for quite a while yet.
 
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