CPU Upgrade concerns

[Jimjoy]

Greetings fellas
For a while i own a system that looks like this while thinking of a CPU upgrade. Main uses for it obv games, with a tad of VR and/or streaming

PCPartPicker Part List

Type	Item	Price
CPU	Intel Core i5-7500 3.4 GHz Quad-Core Processor	$199.98 @ Amazon
Motherboard	MSI B250I PRO Mini ITX LGA1151 Motherboard
Memory	Kingston HyperX Fury Black 16 GB (2 x 8 GB) DDR4-2133 Memory	$139.88 @ OutletPC
Video Card	Gigabyte GeForce GTX 1060 3GB 3 GB Windforce OC Video Card	$248.99 @ Amazon
Power Supply	Silverstone 450 W 80+ Bronze Certified SFX Power Supply	$72.99 @ SuperBiiz
	Prices include shipping, taxes, rebates, and discounts
	Total	$661.84
	Generated by PCPartPicker 2019-08-28 10:08 EDT-0400

Question here is: Is it worth swapping out i5-7500 for i7-7700k OR going on red side with a ryzen CPU and AM4 board? From my initial research it seems like pricing for either would be pretty similar either way, im just worried about performance here (and a lot of intel patches dropping it considerably)

[edit]
im residing in poland so i doubt any of the deals yall have would apply. im asking just to get myself oriented more on the topic
thanks for your time reading this

[Slottr]

I would get a 7700 as you already own the needed equipment and don't have a board to overclock with.

[Mnky313]

1 minute ago, Jimjoy said:

Greetings fellas
For a while i own a system that looks like this while thinking of a CPU upgrade. Main uses for it obv games, with a tad of VR and/or streaming

PCPartPicker Part List

Type	Item	Price
CPU	Intel Core i5-7500 3.4 GHz Quad-Core Processor	$199.98 @ Amazon
Motherboard	MSI B250I PRO Mini ITX LGA1151 Motherboard
Memory	Kingston HyperX Fury Black 16 GB (2 x 8 GB) DDR4-2133 Memory	$139.88 @ OutletPC
Video Card	Gigabyte GeForce GTX 1060 3GB 3 GB Windforce OC Video Card	$248.99 @ Amazon
Power Supply	Silverstone 450 W 80+ Bronze Certified SFX Power Supply	$72.99 @ SuperBiiz
	Prices include shipping, taxes, rebates, and discounts
	Total	$661.84
	Generated by PCPartPicker 2019-08-28 10:08 EDT-0400

Question here is: Is it worth swapping out i5-7500 for i7-7700k OR going on red side with a ryzen CPU and AM4 board? From my initial research it seems like pricing for either would be pretty similar either way, im just worried about performance here (and a lot of intel patches dropping it considerably)

For that GPU I would swap out the board to a b450 one and get a r5 2600 for around $250 total (and maybe get some faster RAM or overclock your current RAM because Ryzen performance is noticeably better with faster RAM.  If you need more CPU power a 3600x would do nicely. AM4 boards have a much better upgrade path than Intel.

[Akira Shimazu]

Streaming need a lot of thread tho. but since you already have before system. just go intel

[Sychic]

1 minute ago, Mnky313 said:

f you need more CPU power a 3600x would do nicely

3600 should work just fine... the 3600x is just overclocked a little and you can easily hit that with a 3600

[Sychic]

1 minute ago, Wolfycapt said:

Streaming need a lot of thread tho. but since you already have before system. just go intel

you'd be better off using nvidia's nvenc encoder though

[Jimjoy]

1 minute ago, Wolfycapt said:

Streaming need a lot of thread tho. but since you already have before system. just go intel

when it comes to streaming, most of the problems w/ cpu i have is due to all the garbage i have running in the background to make it look nice, not the encoder itself. im using NVENC for that.

[Herman Mcpootis]

13 minutes ago, Jimjoy said:

 

Question here is: Is it worth swapping out i5-7500 for i7-7700k OR going on red side with a ryzen CPU and AM4 board? From my initial research it seems like pricing for either would be pretty similar either way, im just worried about performance here (and a lot of intel patches dropping it considerably)

can you find a used 6700/7700 for cheaper than a ryzen 1600+B350/450 board? they're still pretty expensive on ebay so it may be better to just sell the i5 and get a 1600+B450 board new.

[Jimjoy]

4 minutes ago, Slottr said:

I would get a 7700 as you already own the needed equipment and don't have a board to overclock with.

the only reason i would go for 7700k is that they're priced pretty much the same here for K and non-k variant

curently it stands
~ 280€ for msi b450m and 3600
~ 300€ for 7700k
in that pricing in mind, which would be better performance vise

[Slottr]

Just now, Jimjoy said:

~ 280€ for msi b450m and 3600

Definitely this route then

[Herman Mcpootis]

1 minute ago, Jimjoy said:

the only reason i would go for 7700k is that they're priced pretty much the same here for K and non-k variant

curently it stands
~ 280€ for msi b450m and 3600
~ 300€ for 7700k
in that pricing in mind, which would be better performance vise

then there's really no point in going for the 7700/K.

[Jimjoy]

In that case its settled.
Thanks for quick answers, i honestly ddnt expect to have it off the head in 20 minutes ^^