Living room pc upgrade g3258 or platform?

watever44

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My pc in the living room is a itx evga z97 with a g3258 at 4.2ghz and a Asus strix gtx 980 (i know bottleneck by cpu but was good price for used).

Mostly used for movies and internet but also play games like rocket league or simulation like cities skyline etc and would like to probably play more demanding games.

I also play dolphin with friends and that's why I had selected the g3258 back then.

I am considering purchasing a used cpu with 4cores like a 4670k or 4690k or may be not even k like a 4460.

Or if I would switch to a new platform. Like a ryzen r3 or may be r5 or even wait for next February for the new amd cpu. The new 8xxx is interesting too, but hate intel to always require a new platform, even that's it's same socket with different setup. Amd will be good until 2020.
The biggest cost with new platforms is the ram for ddr4 mostly.

What you guys think.
 
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Any local used site like craigslist? You can also look at e3 xeons. Your motherboard supports most of them (that are of the same socket) and are usually cheaper than their exact same consumer counterparts.


You can find the i7 4770k usually for around 140$ used. Great value for a still good cpu and will last some more years.
 


Any local used site like craigslist? You can also look at e3 xeons. Your motherboard supports most of them (that are of the same socket) and are usually cheaper than their exact same consumer counterparts.
 
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