Worth the upgrade?

[Gerr]

While I do have a nice gaming rig in the TV room, I do have a bedroom gaming PC that I use at night after the kids go to bed.  Its specs are well below my main gaming rig, but are decent enough to play at 1080p@60Hz...

 

G4560

Cryorig C7

SuperMicro H710 mATX

16GB DDR4-2133

250GB Samsung 850 EVO

1TB WD Blue

Asus Strix GTX 1060 6GB OC

500W be quiet 80+ Silver

Thermaltake V21 case

Asus 27" IPS 1080p@60Hz

 

I reserve the online & high FPS games for my main gaming rig as the bedroom system is slower and wireless.  I tend to play a lot of open world games like Fallout 4, Skyrim, Witcher 3, GTA 5, etc, on the bedroom system.  My local Fry's has the i5-7500 CPU on sale for $169 + tax, and I am considering buying it and replacing my G4560 with it.  It would speed up my system in three ways.  First is obvious, it's a true 4-core CPU and the more CPU intensive games would run better.  Second is that I virtualize Linux on it for a more secure Internet and giving the Linux VM 2C2T rather than 1C2T would speed up my Linux VM.  Third would be that I could could setup an SSD cache on the 1TB WD Blue drive using a spare 64GB SSD I have.  I would use Intel's RST for that, which my current CPU doesn't support, but the i5 does.  For anyone who has not gamed on an SSD or Hybrid/SSHD, it does make a difference, not in the FPS, but does when loading and switching from zone to zone.

 

I am just wondering if it's worth it to upgrade.  I am sure I could sell my current CPU for at least $40, hopefully $50+, which would help offset the price of the new CPU.  But even for a total of $130-$140 out of pocket after selling my current CPU, will the likely minor bump in performance be worth that money?  Jury is out on that, so looking for opinions.

[NoRomanBatmansAllowed]

2 minutes ago, Gerr said:

While I do have a nice gaming rig in the TV room, I do have a bedroom gaming PC that I use at night after the kids go to bed.  Its specs are well below my main gaming rig, but are decent enough to play at 1080p@60Hz...

 

G4560

Cryorig C7

SuperMicro H710 mATX

16GB DDR4-2133

250GB Samsung 850 EVO

1TB WD Blue

Asus Strix GTX 1060 6GB OC

500W be quiet 80+ Silver

Thermaltake V21 case

Asus 27" IPS 1080p@60Hz

 

I reserve the online & high FPS games for my main gaming rig as the bedroom system is slower and wireless.  I tend to play a lot of open world games like Fallout 4, Skyrim, Witcher 3, GTA 5, etc, on the bedroom system.  My local Fry's has the i5-7500 CPU on sale for $169 + tax, and I am considering buying it and replacing my G4560 with it.  It would speed up my system in three ways.  First is obvious, it's a true 4-core CPU and the more CPU intensive games would run better.  Second is that I virtualize Linux on it for a more secure Internet and giving the Linux VM 2C2T rather than 1C2T would speed up my Linux VM.  Third would be that I could could setup an SSD cache on the 1TB WD Blue drive using a spare 64GB SSD I have.  I would use Intel's RST for that, which my current CPU doesn't support, but the i5 does.  For anyone who has not gamed on an SSD or Hybrid/SSHD, it does make a difference, not in the FPS, but does when loading and switching from zone to zone.

 

I am just wondering if it's worth it to upgrade.  I am sure I could sell my current CPU for at least $40, hopefully $50+, which would help offset the price of the new CPU.  But even for a total of $130-$140 out of pocket after selling my current CPU, will the likely minor bump in performance be worth that money?  Jury is out on that, so looking for opinions.

I mean, do you use your VM often?

 

If so, upgrading your CPU would definitely help it, and it would be worth it.

[Moress]

Yes. A 7500 would help a lot in open world games at 1080p