i5-3570k - worth upgrading?

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It's been 5 years since my last PC upgrade, back in 2012 I switched from LGA775 & Q6600 to Ivy Bridge, haven't done any major changes including MOBO change since then. It's been 4 generations of Intel CPUs since IB release, we now also have Ryzen making an approach. The question I am asking myself is - should I upgrade or maybe I should delid it, put some decent thermal paste/liquid aluminium inside, OC it to the max value and stick with it for 1-2 years more? I am usually gaming, however, recently I've been involved in some editing tasks, such as video and graphics editing. To be honest, some more cores/threads would come in handy, although I can handle 3570k's render speeds. I am confused whether I should, eventually, go for Ryzen, i7-7700k or just leave my Ivy at peace for now?
 
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My 3570k has been sat at 4.3 since day 2, lidded on cheap air, max gaming temps 55-60C, it's still fine, i'm looking post kaby for an upgrade (hoping that Ryzen will shift intels lineup around).

If you delid, be 100% ready to buy a new platform, there is a fair chance you will fail in some way.
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My 3570k has been sat at 4.3 since day 2, lidded on cheap air, max gaming temps 55-60C, it's still fine, i'm looking post kaby for an upgrade (hoping that Ryzen will shift intels lineup around).

If you delid, be 100% ready to buy a new platform, there is a fair chance you will fail in some way.
 
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reduce risk =/= removing risk, also i'd advocate OC from the every early days, else if OCing kills your mobo, can you find a replacement, when delidding or OC'ing you have to assume that you'll be breaking and replacing something.

You also don't need to delidd to get to 4.4, maybe 4.5 on a good chip. An OC of 4.3 probably is similar to a 3.8 Kaby lake? Is that slow, no.
 
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Since you're not in a hurry to upgrade, I'd wait until the end of the year at least to think about it. This holiday season should have some nice sales on components that are only now newly released or maybe even things we haven't seen yet.

Assuming you are already overclocking it, how much more real world performance(not technical increase) do you expect to see with a max delid overclock? I'd save that kind of experimentation for later, when you have a new system to replace this one.
 
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If it's doing everything you want and is reliable my vote is leave it be. I have wasted a lot of money on upgrading every 18-24 months (but I enjoy doing it) only to watch friends I sell my old PC's to get years more use out of them playing all the same games I do.
 
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I get your point and to be clear - I am not that type of person who has to enable Ultra preset in every game to make my penis bigger or alter my ego, I usually play on high/medium. The problem with my i5 is that it falls off in CPU intensive games. A noticable stutters occurs, sometimes frames drop below desired/acceptable level (I have an average of 70-80 fps in The Division, however sometimes it either freezes for 0,5-1s or drops to 30-35). Also, multitasking isn't really possible here, because having one demanding game/app running usually pushes CPU to 100% usage. This is why I've been looking for something stronger. What speaks for Ryzen is number of cores, however, that number means that single core performance had to be sacrificed in some way. i7? The same price as Ryzen (or at least very similar), but only 4 physical cores and 8 threads. If Ryzen is able to deliver >60 FPS in future I'd jump straight for it, but I have no guarantee it will do so, considering that Bulldozer was a major fail and disappointment in a longterm (and still is).
 
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