So, my 3770K rig is getting a bit long in the tooth and I keep waffling back and forth on whether to upgrade it or not. It's primarily used for gaming, with the occasional video edit and I'm just not entirely sure there would be enough of a performance increase just yet.
What I've got now:
i7-3770k, overclocked to 4.4GHz on water. If I wanted to mess with it, I could probably get a little higher, but I've got one core that runs quite a bit hotter than the others, and I don't feel like ripping the thing apart and fixing the TIM.
32GB of DDR3-2400. I don't need 32GB, but it was on sale.
GTX-1070
40" 4K TV doing monitor duty.
I'm considering stepping up to a Ryzen 2700 or 2700X, depending on how lazy I'm feeling about overclocking it myself. Also considering 16GB of DDR4-3200, and probably an X470 board, m.2 SSD, and possibly a second 1070 and using SLI.
I'm starting to notice some of my games struggling a bit, but I'm not sure if it's processor or GPU. I suspect the latter, since I've only recently switched from 2K to 4K for the display.
With that out of the way, has anyone out there made this upgrade, or something similar?
Is there enough of a boost to justify the cost, or would it be a waste of money?
If you were in the same boat, would you pull the trigger or continue waiting?
That would be an interesting article to see alongside the multigenerational GPU ones they're doing right now. Compare the last few generations of CPUs in a similar manner....
What I've got now:
i7-3770k, overclocked to 4.4GHz on water. If I wanted to mess with it, I could probably get a little higher, but I've got one core that runs quite a bit hotter than the others, and I don't feel like ripping the thing apart and fixing the TIM.
32GB of DDR3-2400. I don't need 32GB, but it was on sale.
GTX-1070
40" 4K TV doing monitor duty.
I'm considering stepping up to a Ryzen 2700 or 2700X, depending on how lazy I'm feeling about overclocking it myself. Also considering 16GB of DDR4-3200, and probably an X470 board, m.2 SSD, and possibly a second 1070 and using SLI.
I'm starting to notice some of my games struggling a bit, but I'm not sure if it's processor or GPU. I suspect the latter, since I've only recently switched from 2K to 4K for the display.
With that out of the way, has anyone out there made this upgrade, or something similar?
Is there enough of a boost to justify the cost, or would it be a waste of money?
If you were in the same boat, would you pull the trigger or continue waiting?
That would be an interesting article to see alongside the multigenerational GPU ones they're doing right now. Compare the last few generations of CPUs in a similar manner....