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Suggestion on upgrade?

Keelan
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Hello there, I'm currently looking to upgrade my current setup.

Current specs:

i5 3570k

Geforce gtx 970

8gb ram

700w power supply

p8 z77-v_lx (Socket 1155)

 

I was looking into maybe upgrading my cpu (Something like i7 6700k) but all the newest CPU's use the FCLGA1151 socket which I don't have. 

Is it worth changing my motherboard just for this CPU upgrade?

What kind of recommendations would you give?

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What do you use this PC for? What is the budget? What region?

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Just now, Keelan said:

So would you say it's worth the price of the motherboard to one of the new i7's?

http://cpu.userbenchmark.com/Compare/Intel-Core-i7-6700K-vs-Intel-Core-i5-3570K/3502vs1316

 

~39% increase in performance

Plus Hyperthreading

Plus DDR4 RAM (higher freq.)

 

 

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2 minutes ago, Sreno1 said:

What do you use this PC for? What is the budget? What region?

Purely for gaming, I have been playing quite a lot of bf1 recently and have noticed some performance drop.

I checked the minimal specs for the game and it recommends at least a i5 6600K.  

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4 minutes ago, Keelan said:

Purely for gaming, I have been playing quite a lot of bf1 recently and have noticed some performance drop.

I checked the minimal specs for the game and it recommends at least a i5 6600K.  

It won't hurt go upgrade to skylake... I just went from am3+ to LGA1151. The money for the upgrade was worth it because now I don't have to worry about upgrade paths for a bit (will be getting a 6700k when the price of those come down)

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7 minutes ago, Keelan said:

Purely for gaming, I have been playing quite a lot of bf1 recently and have noticed some performance drop.

I checked the minimal specs for the game and it recommends at least a i5 6600K.  

Have you tried overclocking your CPU? That's where I'd start.

11 minutes ago, Jed M said:

http://cpu.userbenchmark.com/Compare/Intel-Core-i7-6700K-vs-Intel-Core-i5-3570K/3502vs1316

 

~39% increase in performance

Plus Hyperthreading

Plus DDR4 RAM (higher freq.)

 

Don't use that. Synthetic benchmarks don't really translate well to gaming performance.

 

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