Another upgrade post *sigh*

[kelvinhall05]

I want to upgrade my old i5-750, but I have a few questions. My budget is $180 in cash and an extra $140-ish dollars on Amazon.ca. My question is, what should I upgrade to? I'm staying with mITX, and I'm nervous about overclocking, but am willing to do it if it is good value. I'm in London, Ontario. Thanks for the help!

[LeapFrogMasterRace]

You might be able to get a modern i3, new mITX and some DDR4 for around that but it sounds like you need a whole new system, if this is for modern gaming I would just get a RX 480 or something now and upgrade the rest later. 

[PenPoint]

All of my estimates are based on CAD since you're Canadian.

 

$180 CAD is quite a grey area. I think G4560 is the answer - you can get it at $79 ( http://www.ncix.com/detail/intel-pentium-processor-g4560-2core-de-138312.htm?affiliateid=7474144 ).

 

$140 would go for mobo, and you can get this ( https://www.amazon.ca/ASRock-Motherboard-Mini-H110M-ITX-AC/dp/B01AVPBOFI/ ) at $110.

[GDRRiley]

https://ca.pcpartpicker.com/list/VKQZvV

[kelvinhall05]

10 hours ago, LeapFrogMasterRace said:

You might be able to get a modern i3, new mITX and some DDR4 for around that but it sounds like you need a whole new system, if this is for modern gaming I would just get a RX 480 or something now and upgrade the rest later. 

 

The RX 470 I currently have does everything I need it to, but I play games like BeamNG.drive, which is a pretty CPU intensive game. When I start spawning and crashing multiple cars, it starts to lag.

10 hours ago, PenPoint said:

All of my estimates are based on CAD since you're Canadian.

 

$180 CAD is quite a grey area. I think G4560 is the answer - you can get it at $79 ( http://www.ncix.com/detail/intel-pentium-processor-g4560-2core-de-138312.htm?affiliateid=7474144 ).

 

$140 would go for mobo, and you can get this ( https://www.amazon.ca/ASRock-Motherboard-Mini-H110M-ITX-AC/dp/B01AVPBOFI/ ) at $110.

 

 

10 hours ago, GDRRiley said:

https://ca.pcpartpicker.com/list/VKQZvV

Is the Pentium really worth the upgrade? Are there any benchmarks? Like I said before, I play BeamNG,drive and Team Fortress 2 a lot if that helps.

[kelvinhall05]

@PenPoint @GDRRiley @LeapFrogMasterRace If it's a good deal, I found an i5-2500k on CeX for $70. I could buy it online and get it shipped to Canada (would that work?)

 

https://us.webuy.com/product.php?sku=SCPUINTI52500KA#.WMXl1zsrI2w

 

[PenPoint]

1 hour ago, kelvinhall05 said:

@PenPoint @GDRRiley @LeapFrogMasterRace If it's a good deal, I found an i5-2500k on CeX for $70. I could buy it online and get it shipped to Canada (would that work?)

 

https://us.webuy.com/product.php?sku=SCPUINTI52500KA#.WMXl1zsrI2w

 

NOPE. G4560 is a better idea in every single perspective: and in case of the performance, those two will be similar because they have a quite big gap in terms of generation.

I just surfed Canadian pcpartpicker again and i3-7100 will best fit your budget: $150. 7100 will easily beat 2500K.

[kelvinhall05]

4 minutes ago, PenPoint said:

NOPE. G4560 is a better idea in every single perspective: and in case of the performance, those two will be similar because they have a quite big gap in terms of generation.

I just surfed Canadian pcpartpicker again and i3-7100 will best fit your budget: $150. 7100 will easily beat 2500K.

 

Are you sure that the i3 will beat out the i5? I found some benchmarks which don't support that claim, especially with the price gap between the 2.

http://cpu.userbenchmark.com/Compare/Intel-Core-i5-2500K-vs-Intel-Core-i3-7100/619vs3891

[PenPoint]

1 hour ago, kelvinhall05 said:

Are you sure that the i3 will beat out the i5? I found some benchmarks which don't support that claim, especially with the price gap between the 2.

http://cpu.userbenchmark.com/Compare/Intel-Core-i5-2500K-vs-Intel-Core-i3-7100/619vs3891

Considering 7100 is at least slightly better than 6100 by its higher clock speed(approx 5.5%), it seems like those two are tie.