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I'm new to this forum and I need some help on upgradeing my i5 2500k sandy bridge and if its worth upgrading my PC to Intel's new skylake because I'm getting ready to do some photo editing I would love to have some opinions and the help would be greatly appreciated thanks guy's

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Whats the rest of the rig? And the i5 2500k is a pretty nice CPU with some OC.

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Haswell still has plenty of life in it, and I'd argue that Sandy Bridge just about does as well.

 

I would wait for Skylake to go a little cheaper, however, since supply doesn't quite meet demand and is a little more expensive than it should be right now.

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I'm new to this forum and I need some help on upgradeing my i5 2500k sandy bridge and if its worth upgrading my PC to Intel's new skylake because I'm getting ready to do some photo editing I would love to have some opinions and the help would be greatly appreciated thanks guy's

In my opinion i think that an i5 is plenty for photo editing. I sometimes edit 4k photos on my i3 2120.

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I'd just keep what you currently have if you're just going to do photo editing.
What you might want to look at upgrading is your RAM, and possibly adding a small SSD as a scratch disk.

 

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Haswell still has plenty of life in it, and I'd argue that Sandy Bridge just about does as well.

 

I would wait for Skylake to go a little cheaper, however, since supply doesn't quite meet demand and is a little more expensive than it should be right now.

I would second that, Wait until Skylake's availability is a bit more and the prices normalize to its $350~ per CPU 

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Hey guys my brother built a system and its a amd a10 7850k and he's been having problems with the apu with screen artifact's and red screens of death when gaming and he has gskill ram and a MSI A88xm-EZ45 motherboard so any help would be greatly appreciated thanks

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