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i currently have an i5 3570k and am wondering if i should upgrade to an i7 6700k.

have wanted an i7 for quite a while i5 is what i could afford when i had to replace due to bent cpu pins

If you need hyper threading then get the i7/ Otherwise the i5 is still very good, no reason to upgrade

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5820K? Not much more expensive.

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i currently have an i5 3570k and am wondering if i should upgrade to an i7 6700k.

have wanted an i7 for quite a while i5 is what i could afford when i had to replace due to bent cpu pins

I don't know what you are saying.

You want up updates your CPU to an i7 right?

What do you need an i7 for?

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i currently have an i5 3570k and am wondering if i should upgrade to an i7 6700k.

depends what you do with the machine...but no, unless it's a workstation it's not worth it...and if workstation get the 5820K 6cores/12 threads.

 

The i5-3570K is a very strong processor, and if you play games and watch youtube and stuff it's more then enough...and even if you render videos from time to time and stream to twitch it will still perform great...so unless you're a pro-user and you want to shave time on renderings everyday or something, no it's not worth it...at all.

The i5-3570K is just as great as the i5-4690K to be honest, it overclock well and if you can hit like 4.3ghz it will match a 4.0ghz i5-4690K.

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i currently have an i5 3570k and am wondering if i should upgrade to an i7 6700k.

have wanted an i7 for quite a while i5 is what i could afford when i had to replace due to bent cpu pins

If you want dat skylake, get dat skylake. If it makes you feel better its priceless.

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