CPU Upgrade Question

[Sabotage23]

I'm currently looking at getting a new CPU

http://www.tigerdirect.ca/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=2373004&Sku=I69-3570K

since its on sale for a really good price

or preferably worth the extra to get 3770k on sale for $319 CDN

My current setup
Intel I5 2500k with a Aftermarket Heatsink
Asus p8z77-V
G.Skill Snipers 8GB 1600
Asus 7850 2GB edition
Sandisk Extreme 128GB SSD
and WD Black and a Green HDD

I mostly do gaming with my computer, but i also do run some VM's on the side

I have just upgraded my dad's computer
from

Intel Core 2 Quad 9660
Asus motherboard
DDR 2 4GB
Nvidia GTX 460

to a

Intel Core i7 3770 non K since he doesnt over clock
Asrock extreme 4
16GB DDR3 1600's
128 sandisk extreme SSD

and his setup is lightening fast! no slow down what so ever


So my question is really would i see a signification improvement on what i got if i get the 3570k? or should i not even bother

 

[dragonstongue]

http://www.techpowerup.com/forums/showthread.php?t=166995
http://www.mmo-champion.com/threads/1128825-i5-2500k-to-i7-3770k-anyone-made-the-jump
http://www.hitechlegion.com/reviews/processors/18324-intel-core-i5-3570k-ivybridge?showall=&start=23

The difference is usually taken on the overclocking side in relation to sandy vs ivy generations. Ivy is faster by about 300Mhz or so, however, sandy can usually clock up this much higher anyways.

I suppose it depends on the chip in question. Some overclock better then others. From what I have read so far, Ivy is a heck of a fast chip, and very good on power, but start overclocking, and it gets quite hot and burns alot of extra power when it reaches certain plateaus trying to overcome them.

To answer your question, I personally do not think you would see much a major jump, if you have your chip clocked up to say 4.2-4.5 then you are already getting a massive speed jump, more then most of us actually use/need anyways. Hold on to your $ and wait for the next gen of gpu come out, you will see more from that anyways.

 

[Ultima99]

The question you should ask yourself is how much will you benefit from this right now and how will you feel about it once Haswell is released?

You mentioned your dads computer is really fast, but is yours slow enough to bother you?

 

[Sabotage23]

Yeah i clocked mine to 4.2ghz with 1866mhz ram timings using the X.M.P profile

But yeah i'll hold onto my cash and wait for the new CPU's and DDR4

 

[dragonstongue]

then you are getting a very good performance bump from stock. Most games/apps do just fine with any current quad core, even AMD cpu, not many games are held back especially once the chip is OC. You can probably take it to 4.4-4.6 if you chose to do so.

The jump in performance from say a core 2 duo or quad even a first gen i7 would be quite large to go to any ivy chip, but from sandy to ivy there is just a few features(most do not benefit most users) a small bump in performance at same clocks(10% or so) better memory compat(very small % of performance) but mostly power consumption, this in itself is very large at stock, but once you start overclocking, they become about even.

So yeh, it`s not really worth it overall, unless you really needed the "work" performance, something the new chips do quite well, but again, purely from a gaming standpoint, say 30% at best, is not really worth the quite large cost when you will not see a direct benefit from it. DDR4, well, Intel may not be releasing new cpu and DDR4 for quite sometime as they do not have a need to(and may not be able to launch 14nm as they would like) and possibly, depending on the way things go, we may end up seeing most of thier lineup in the near future become embeded so we can`t swap out cpu from the motherboard