From i5 3470 to i7 2600/i7 3770 vs new i7s

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HIe all i was was wanting to get a second opinion. I will be purchasing new games like Battlefield 1, dying light, mass effect, far cry 4 e.t.c. I have since taken care of my gpu issues, upgrading from a 280x to an rx 480.

what remains now is the cpu. I plan on buying the games first, testing them on my current platform and then if my 3470 cant handle it i will upgrade cpu. Here is my dilemma, i checked the benchmarks performed by reputable and trusted reviewers comparing the sandy bridge to the latest platform and the difference in performance being a measly 25% in both gaming and synthetic benchmarks. I do like to stress that i am not an overclocker and would rather stick to non k versions of cpus to keep costs down on motherboard and cpu.

upgrading to a new system (mobo, cpu, ram) i7 7700 will cost me about $700-$740 AUD

upgrading to an i7 3770 will be $210AUD and the 2600 will only cost me $160 as i have an LGA1155.

to me a 25%increase in performance does not warrant $500. what do you think. if my option is upgrading to the lga1155 cpus which one? im swinging towards the 2600

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I remember having my i7 3770s, and I wanted the K version, the K version was as much as the skylake i7's if not more, the non K i7 3770 was $300 USD, not really worth it.

But if you can find a cheap 3770 or a 2600, go for it if you play a lot of BF1, BF1 will peg your i5 out at 100%, probably limiting you're performance, it did on my system with a i7 3770s at 4.2ghz, it would dip below 60fps and into the 40s in some cases on just one 780ti since the CPU was at 100%. With my 5820k and a single 780ti I was always around 80+ fps, 2 of them I never go below 100fps.

Older i5's do not do well in BF1, There is a big topic on Battlefield forums about bad performance on older i5's.
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I remember having my i7 3770s, and I wanted the K version, the K version was as much as the skylake i7's if not more, the non K i7 3770 was $300 USD, not really worth it.

But if you can find a cheap 3770 or a 2600, go for it if you play a lot of BF1, BF1 will peg your i5 out at 100%, probably limiting you're performance, it did on my system with a i7 3770s at 4.2ghz, it would dip below 60fps and into the 40s in some cases on just one 780ti since the CPU was at 100%. With my 5820k and a single 780ti I was always around 80+ fps, 2 of them I never go below 100fps.

Older i5's do not do well in BF1, There is a big topic on Battlefield forums about bad performance on older i5's.
 
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I wouldn't go any lower than 3rd Gen i7, as the 2nd gen 2600 is starting to show its age. Personally, I have the i7 7700K and while I believe it was worth spending the $900 AUD, I would upgrade to an i7 3770. At times, the 3770 gets 10-15 fps more than the 2600, which to me warrants the extra cost. 10-15 FPS might not sound like a lot, but when you're dancing below 60, an extra 10-15 FPS will make a lot of difference.

My votes on the 3770.
 
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I just changed from i5-3550 (40x Turbo) to a 3770K (42x Turbo) today.
Asus P8Z77-V LX MB, 2x8GB HyperX Savage 1600 (XMP1) and some random old SSD.
System is definitely more responsive especially when running many processes (VMs, whatever).
Google Chrome loads much faster after restart with 30-40 tabs. Minimum FPS also went up a bit in games.
It cost me €/$ 100 with the old CPU sold.
I'd say it was a very good upgrade. Wouldn't go below 3rd gen.
 
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Hie all i wanted to update and say thanks for the advice. I went ahead and got an i7 2600 for $120 AUD or ~$90 USD

My most cpu intensive game (GTA 5) at the moment only utilizes 60% of the cpu and i get no stutter as i did with the 3470. As old as it may be the 2600 is still a beast. I would have gotten a 3770 but they are costing around the $190 AUD OR ~145 USD mark, which for an extra 5-7% i figure was not worth it.
 
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Glad to hear! You can also squeeze a little more out of that 2600 non k, you can overclock them to their max turbo of 3.8ghz.

With my i7 3770s had a base of 3.1ghz and a turbo of 3.9ghz, simply boosting all cores to 3.9ghz on stock voltage, I got a good performance boost in CPU demanding games such as DayZ and Arma 3 and BF1 being a CPU hog I got a 10 FPS gain. I further pushed it with the bclk, I was able to get a stable 107.6 just a hair under 4.2ghz.

It's up to you and its not as hard as you think, just do some reading up on Sandybridge or Ivybridge non k overclocking if you are interested.

Also thats a real good price for the i7 2600, its hard to find them here in the states for that much.
 
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