Sandy Vs Skylake or Zen

[BaronKiller]

I'm currently using the i5 2400 but my Gts250 is now too old to run certain games like TF2,AVA,GTA V,BF and so on(not sure why tough it used to play em' just fine)...  

So I'm thinking maybe I should upgrade the whole system to i5 6400 or 6500~with the AMD 480~

Or should I just keep the i5 2400(Cuz I've heard that the 2400 is not any worse than the 6400,is 2400 still able to pull off for some time?) and upgrade the card first and wait for AMD Zen (I'm really excited for one but just quite uncertain about the release date)

Any advice or suggestion?

Current system 

i5 2400 

MSI h61m

ADATA 8GB 1300

GIGABYTE Gts250 

[G27Racer_188]

9 minutes ago, BaronKiller said:

I'm currently using the i5 2400 but my Gts250 is now too old to run certain games like TF2,AVA,GTA V,BF and so on(not sure why tough it used to play em' just fine)...  

So I'm thinking maybe I should upgrade the whole system to i5 6400 or 6500~with the AMD 480~

Or should I just keep the i5 2400(Cuz I've heard that the 2400 is not any worse than the 6400,is 2400 still able to pull off for some time?) and upgrade the card first and wait for AMD Zen (I'm really excited for one but just quite uncertain about the release date)

Any advice or suggestion?

Current system 

i5 2400 

MSI h61m

ADATA 8GB 1300

GIGABYTE Gts250 

Definitely change just the video card first as GTS 250 is really old at this point.

I5 2400 will serve you just fine form a minimum of one year (but realistically more like 3-4), and then see about upgrading the other parts of the system.

 

[Herman Mcpootis]

just get an rx 480/gtx 1060, the 2400 should still be good enough for it. if you find that it's bottlenecking your pc you can swap it out for an i7 or xeon equivalent too.

[typographie]

Your i5-2400 is far behind enough to justify an upgrade to Skylake/Kaby Lake/Zen, but your GTS 250 is comparable to the integrated GPU in Skylake. I would recommend a new video card as the first thing to upgrade, if you aren't planning to do it all at once.

 

Sandy Bridge is probably about 20–40% behind Skylake when compared 1:1, depending on the tests used. In games that are heavily dependent on GPU performance, that difference tends to be less, so in some games it may appear to be comparable to an i5-6400. As I said, far behind enough to be worth upgrading, but not as far behind as your video card.