Should I Upgrade?

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jfnirvana292

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I know these posts are a dime a dozen but I'm having an itch to upgrade my system but having difficulties determining what needs to be upgraded/best bang for my buck.

It's used for software development and other miscellaneous office tasks.

Specs:


Intel Boxed Core I5-6600 FC-LGA14C 3.30 Ghz 6 M Processor Cache 4 LGA...

GIGABYTE LGA1151 Intel H170 Mini-ITX DDR4 Motherboard

Crucial Ballistix Sport LT 16GB Kit (8GBx2) DDR4 2400

Gigabyte AMD R7 360 128 Bit GDDR5 2GB 2xDVI/HDMI/DP Overclocked...

250gb m2 sata drive


 
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Latest Intel pricing is insane, what I would do is search for a used X99/5820k combo and run with it. I have the 5820k at it doesn't break a sweat at 4.3Ghz OC.
 
drutman said:
Latest Intel pricing is insane, what I would do is search for a used X99/5820k combo and run with it. I have the 5820k at it doesn't break a sweat at 4.3Ghz OC.
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Guessing my motherboard doesn't support that cpu? How about the new ryzens? They are cheaper
 
Think I'd notice much difference? Do they make good ryzen motherboards in mini itx form factor?
 
For a software dev/office machine, I can't see much good reason to replace what you have. Unless maybe you're doing DB work, compiles, etc. where additional cores may potentially be beneficial and save you significant time.
 
jfnirvana292 said:
I've been writing data analytics software, which can be very heavy on the system.
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Is it possible that simply upgrading with additional RAM might help? A larger/faster SSD for storing datasets? Can anything be offloaded to/accelerated by a better GPU? Are there any benchmarks available for similar data analysis applications that might give you an idea of where the best focus for hardware upgrades may be?

Verify how good your tools are at breaking up and parallelizing workloads. Probably little sense in upgrading if it's all single-threaded. If it can be, then yeah, consider upgrading to something with at least eight cores. And again, before you commit to AMD or Intel for the CPU (and/or AMD/Nvidia for the GPU?) look for applicable benchmarks.
 
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