Upgrading from a i7 2600?

[JohnMiller92]

Hey everyone.

So basically, I upgraded from a FX 6300 about 2 months ago, to a i7 2600. Purchased her off ebay for $100, and $35 for a new mobo. The performance in the Godot game engine was insane. Previewing scenes went from around 700ms to sub 100-150ms. The performance was night and day basically.

However, do you still think it'll be worth it to upgrade to a i7 7700k? Would there actually be a real world, noticeable performance increase or am I just overthinking this / deluded by the "upgrade itch" if you will.

Just curious about your thoughts. I just keep seeing the i7 7700k on buildapcsales for around $260.. just an insane deal imo, so it's so tempting but not even sure if it's worth it! Have to buy new ram and mobo, etc.

And also, CoffeeLake is coming out soon too... so if I were to upgrade, why do it now, I should wait right?

Ha, anyways... yeah thanks for reading!

 

[Araxie]

it will definitively worth, i7 2600 have very limited performance by today standard due the low clock, it just go up to 3.8ghz turbo on single core and 3.5ghz all cores, 7700K have 30% higher clocks that as itself mean a huge jump in performance, and add on top of that about ~30% better IPC then again you are talking about huge step up, way more noticeable than the jump from the FX6300 to i7 2600, however at this point in the market i would forget about buying a 7700K and if it's possible just wait for coffee lake so you can buy a better long term CPU.

 

[Nimisys]

it will definitively worth, i7 2600 have very limited performance by today standard due the low clock, it just go up to 3.8ghz turbo on single core and 3.5ghz all cores, 7700K have 30% higher clocks that as itself mean a huge jump in performance, and add on top of that about ~30% better IPC then again you are talking about huge step up, way more noticeable than the jump from the FX6300 to i7 2600, however at this point in the market i would forget about buying a 7700K and if it's possible just wait for coffee lake so you can buy a better long term CPU.

I got to disagree, going to 7700k means another Mobo and DDR4. Realistically a 600-700$ investment. It's not going to be night and day, and it's going to sting given the costs to do so. Now if the OP has a board capable of it, going to a 2600K or 3770k and then hitting an easy 4+ ghz OC, the difference between it and the 7700 would be minimal, and the cost to the OP wouldn't be nearly as bad.

 

[Araxie]

I got to disagree, going to 7700k means another Mobo and DDR4. Realistically a 600-700$ investment. It's not going to be night and day, and it's going to sting given the costs to do so. Now if the OP has a board capable of it, going to a 2600K or 3770k and then hitting an easy 4+ ghz OC, the difference between it and the 7700 would be minimal, and the cost to the OP wouldn't be nearly as bad.

Thats the exact reason why I also said to wait for coffee lake as for me it doesn't worth at this point buying a quad core CPU, even a used 2600k/ 3770k..

I know some people simply doesn't understand that those are ancient CPUS with ancient features (or lack of them.. in comparison to modern CPUS) but buying 5 - 6 years old tech on quad core mainstream platform doesn't worth any kind of bargain or deal.

I have a 4.8ghz 3770k so I know exactly what they are capable of and what kind of bottlenecks it offers even to my old 280X and at this point it simply doesn't worth any investment on it, at least I won't put any kind of money on this kind of ancient Z77 sabertooth platform.

My 6700k was huge upgrade for gaming at stock settings versus overclocked 3770k and a 7700k overclock even better easily than my 6700k so I also know exactly how reflect that extra performance on gaming smoothness.