Small upgrade - Intel i5 3570k to i7 3770k

[peche]

Speaking of trying to purchase a 3770k, anyone know where one can be had without going second-hand?

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Intel-Core-...040376?hash=item1c82a69878:g:6g4AAOSwWWxY9PQh
little expensive for me...

 

[trparky]

Holy mother of God that's expensive. Someone is pocketing some serious profit right there. Quark would be pleased.

 

[peche]

agreed, but the value of having that chip in a closed original box, never opened could grant his owner some pennies moar, and also ... you know that there will be someone in this globe that might have the money and would get it no matter the insane price tag...


Regards,

 

[trparky]

It's almost cheaper to get a newer chip if you need the extra threads regardless of the fact that it'll give you minimal additional per-core improvements. For those people like me who are heavy multi-taskers, more cores and more threads help.

 

[peche]

you can mostly upgrade entire platform with that price tag....

 

[Vario]

You can get a 3770S for around $120 and I think the multiplier can be set as high as 43x but I am not sure, that would give you 4.3 Ghz.

 

[Misiu]

I just upgraded from 3570k at 4.4-4.6GHz to 3770k at 4.5GHz. The upgrade cost me roughly 50 Euro after I sold my 3570k for 100 Euro. To be honest for $120 for 3770k go for it. The games like new hitman, Watchdogs 2, Gta5 will make big difference. You can sell 3570k for about $100 or more. It is a free upgrade and you will see the difference. I did not change my 3570k for years since it worked better that i7s for gaming. Now new games need more than 4 cores or 4 threads.
Now I am happy for another couple years with my old gaming rig. Ryzen is not a choice for gamers now and new Intel platforms are expensive. 3770k for $120 it is no brainer. Good luck

 

[jboydgolfer]

it would be simply wasting money. Damn.

Yup

I went from four core four thread to four core eight thread and the performance increase was totally unnoticeable in reality-based situations.
Of course there are specific situations where there can be a benefit but a thread is not equal to a core ,so having 8 threads is not like having 8 cores. Otherwise there be no reason to buy anything above a hyper threaded i3 for anyone who needed a quad core

 

[peche]

wish i could get my self for cheap a 3770K, always loved that chip

 

[mrthanhnguyen]

It costed me $80-$100 dont remember exactly for upgrading a 2500k to 3770k. I game mostly on the pc and I cant see much difference, however, there are some intense Cpu games like Battlefield series, I could tell the difference.

 

[niko084]

Depending on the games you play and other usage I'd go for it.

I feel people downplay HT and how good it is in some situations, take a look at this---
https://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/Intel/Core_i5_4670K_and_i7_4770K_Comparison/8.html

In excess of a 15% performance gain in BF3 on a GTX 580, take that to BF4 or BF1 and I'll bet you'll be looking at more than that.
But it will depend, in other situations the performance difference maybe nill.

 

[Kanan]

A friend of mine did a similar upgrade from i5 4560K to i7 4790K and it was worth it for him because he was CPU limited in CPU heavy games like BF1. Now he even upgraded to a GTX 1080 Ti and the CPU is still doing strong. In other words: i7's are much more powerful, and if you need the power it is worth it. 120 bucks isn't exactly a lot anyway, after selling the i5 you're pretty much on 0€ spend anyway.

 

[Frick]

The difference comes if you do say stream movies and game at the same time.

Look at the graphs here. It's in swedish but you'll understand the graphs. BF1, a stream of that and a stream of a movie at the same time overwhelms the i5.

 

[Vario]

I've owned both and still own the 3770K. They are pretty similar. I found that the 3770K lets me run a lot more stuff at once without feeling bogged down. Looking on eBay, The 3570K is worth about $80, 3770K is surprisingly worth about $180, so you are looking at $100 to upgrade it not including transactional costs and shipping.

If you did the 3770S and you have a Z68 or Z77 board, you'd only be out $50 as the 3770S usually goes for around $130, and you'd go up to 4.3 I think which is only 200 mhz shy of the average 3770K and a negligible difference. Found this CPUZ from google showing a 4.58Ghz 3770S. I wouldn't bother with base clock overclock personally I'd just run a 43x multi and leave it be.

 

[rtwjunkie]

@Vario great suggestion. The only thing I would caution the OP on with that 3770S being overclcked is that the max he can overclock and keep all cores is 3.9. After that cores start dropping out. At 4.3, only one core is running at that speed. The k wouldn't have that limitation.

Even so, it's a great suggestion and cheaper for OP, because many think you have to have a k to overclock on SB and IB.

 

[Mussels]

I've owned both and still own the 3770K. They are pretty similar. I found that the 3770K lets me run a lot more stuff at once without feeling bogged down. Looking on eBay, The 3570K is worth about $80, 3770K is surprisingly worth about $180, so you are looking at $100 to upgrade it not including transactional costs and shipping.

If you did the 3770S and you have a Z68 or Z77 board, you'd only be out $50 as the 3770S usually goes for around $130, and you'd go up to 4.3 I think which is only 200 mhz shy of the average 3770K and a negligible difference. Found this CPUZ from google showing a 4.58Ghz 3770S. I wouldn't bother with base clock overclock personally I'd just run a 43x multi and leave it be.
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when i tested a 2400S here, the turbo clocks were similar to a 2400 but in intel burn test it'd run a lot lower for all four cores than the regular (~3Ghz max vs 3.7GHz or so) - the 3770s is very likely similar, and will run a lot slower than the regular or K chip.

 

[Vario]

when i tested a 2400S here, the turbo clocks were similar to a 2400 but in intel burn test it'd run a lot lower for all four cores than the regular (~3Ghz max vs 3.7GHz or so) - the 3770s is very likely similar, and will run a lot slower than the regular or K chip.

Interesting some kind of thermal throttle maybe? Then maybe get the 3770. I had a 1230v2 and it was a lot slower than a 3570K at some things, I clocked it to 3.5 Ghz (+2 bin multi was max it did, I didn't have much luck with base clock), however it had the best IMC of any of the Ivys I have owned and it also undervolted like a champion, I had it running .8V for 3.5 Ghz on intel burn test! It had a much better IMC than the 3570K so while my total crap dud delidded 3570k that maxed at 4.4 Ghz () was able to win at some single thread stuff and could only run ram at 1600 ( ), the 1230v2 was able to keep up with it to an extent with 2400 ram and 3.5 with 4 more thread. My current i7 doesn't run ram quite as well as the 1230v2 but it clocks to 4.8 for benchmark stable.

OP could also get a Sandy i7 2600-2700K but that PCI-E 3.0 is really worth it long term if you're going to go the distance with it.

Ebay search reveals the 3770 (non K) is about $138, not a bad deal.

 

[Prima.Vera]

If you like to open 1 million tabs in your browser, then having a HT enabled CPU can help a lot.