upgrade or nah?

[Triventular]

I currently have an i5 3570 on my current pc. I'm planning on upgrading on an i7 3770 because of the problems i'm having with a certain emulator i'm playing. its paired with a gtx 1050 and 12gb of ram. my monitor is only 1366x768 and i don't think i'll buy a higher res monitor for a while. i wanna ask if it is advisable for me to upgrade to an i7 3770? the games i play mostly are gta v, csgo, and emulation. I also do a bit of rendering for school and compile some simple apps. any input will be appreciated. 

[Ryan Brighton]

if the price is not a huge issue, do it.

[Triventular]

2 minutes ago, Ryan Brighton said:

if the price is not a huge issue, do it.

i forgot to put that in haha i'm kinda strapped for cash  but if i can sell my old gtx 560 and my current cpu, i might be able to. but lets say if i don't have enough money at all, would it be worth earning up to? even if it takes like a couple of months? haha idiotic question

[Valkyrie Lenneth]

29 minutes ago, Triventular said:

i forgot to put that in haha i'm kinda strapped for cash  but if i can sell my old gtx 560 and my current cpu, i might be able to. but lets say if i don't have enough money at all, would it be worth earning up to? even if it takes like a couple of months? haha idiotic question

wt emulator ur using bcoz a 3570 should be easily capable of running all smooth

[GloriousPain]

1 hour ago, Triventular said:

I currently have an i5 3570 on my current pc. I'm planning on upgrading on an i7 3770 because of the problems i'm having with a certain emulator i'm playing. its paired with a gtx 1050 and 12gb of ram. my monitor is only 1366x768 and i don't think i'll buy a higher res monitor for a while. i wanna ask if it is advisable for me to upgrade to an i7 3770? the games i play mostly are gta v, csgo, and emulation. I also do a bit of rendering for school and compile some simple apps. any input will be appreciated. 

Between i5 3570 and i7 3770... Is no generational gap, just more cores and higher clockrate... Emulators don't use many cores because until very recently consoles and such had very few cores.  The clockrate jump between the two isn't very much either. So I'd expect very little improvement from the "upgrade" ...  Gta V would be the only game where I'd expect you to notice any improvement as it's a newer game so it might benefit marginally more from the extra cores. 

 

And to upgrade to a new(er) gen would require a new motherboard and likely new ram. 

 

The i7 would also help inthe rendering you mention towards the end, but you make it sound like that's not too often or too big of a concern. 

[Triventular]

2 hours ago, GloriousPain said:

Between i5 3570 and i7 3770... Is no generational gap, just more cores and higher clockrate... Emulators don't use many cores because until very recently consoles and such had very few cores.  The clockrate jump between the two isn't very much either. So I'd expect very little improvement from the "upgrade" ...  Gta V would be the only game where I'd expect you to notice any improvement as it's a newer game so it might benefit marginally more from the extra cores. 

 

And to upgrade to a new(er) gen would require a new motherboard and likely new ram. 

 

The i7 would also help inthe rendering you mention towards the end, but you make it sound like that's not too often or too big of a concern. 

so if i should upgrade in the future, i should go with a newer generation to make it worth the upgrade? well i'm not rendering much right now haha 

[GloriousPain]

On 10/11/2017 at 6:10 AM, Triventular said:

so if i should upgrade in the future, i should go with a newer generation to make it worth the upgrade? well i'm not rendering much right now haha 

Yeah that'd be my suggestion... Try upgrading to Kaby/Coffee Lake or Ryzen maybe?

[asand1]

I7 2600 or 3770 would be a decent upgrade and would save money over a complete build requiring new mobo and RAM.

 

The question is, does your emulator need the extra cores, or there another problem?