Worthy upgrade for a i7 3770...

[OdDsEnSeS]

Hey guys and gals,
I have been running an i7 3770 for about 3 years now and frankly I love this thing. And I was kind of hoping this year would be the year a CPU released that would be a decently large upgrade but I'm not really convinced. I certainly don't have the $1,000+ for a 6950x or whatever this year will include. The 7700K really isn't a BIG upgrade. The Ryzen has my attention but I am just flat out not a fan of AMD. I always have problems with their stuff. What do you all think, wait or just suck it up and get a 7700k and not worry about my CPU for another couple years when we've hopefully crossed the threshold of manufacturing limitations? Thanks!

[upcoast]

I would still think an i7 7700k would be minor returns vs $$$.

[OdDsEnSeS]

upcoast の投稿を引用：

I would still think an i7 7700k would be minor returns vs $$$.

That's what I'm saying. Last year the 6700k wasn't nearly worth it and the 7700 isn't really a jump at all. I'm honestly not even sure Ryzen is worth it since all I do is game and the specs on that aren't that insane either. Kinda seems like the old girl might stick around a bit longer. Crazy to think a 3/4 year old CPU is still keeping up with the big boys.

[Arec Barwin]

Sounds like the 7600K will provide the best value for gamers much like the 6600K. I've been holding out for kaby lake chips in a new build, probably a waste of time all things considered.

[OdDsEnSeS]

whitewater1982 の投稿を引用：

Sounds like the 7600K will provide the best value for gamers much like the 6600K. I've been holding out for kaby lake chips in a new build, probably a waste of time all things considered.

It's a bit disappointing. I was expecting more than a 5% gain from last year

[Kaihekoa]

I would just OC your i7 and wait to see what else comes out this year. Your CPU is still good for gaming. If your GPU is a few years old, put the money in that instead.

[OdDsEnSeS]

Kaihekoa の投稿を引用：

I would just OC your i7 and wait to see what else comes out this year. Your CPU is still good for gaming. If your GPU is a few years old, put the money in that instead.

I just picked up a gtx 1070 in november, and I was hoping to go with them in sli when I had a better board. I guess I'll get my ssd first now so I still win

[SundownKid]

No need to SLI 1070's, sell it and get a 1080Ti when that comes out.

[OdDsEnSeS]

SundownKid の投稿を引用：

No need to SLI 1070's, sell it and get a 1080Ti when that comes out.

Have you ever read the book "If you give a mouse a cookie"? I am kind of like that with PC hardware. If I sell my 1070 for a 1080ti, I'll want 2, if I get 2 ill want to liquid cool them, if I want to liquid cool them I'll want to liquid cool EVERYTHING. It's a dangeroud idea hahahaha. If I get 2 1070's I can fool my brain into thinking it's not the BEST so it doesn't need to be treated the best witih fancy cooling.


I have zero self control.

[Untitled]

I am using the 3770k overclocked to 4.3ghz and i am not due to upgrade anytime soon does the job fine so i dont see why you would need to upgrade

[Damian]

**Eating Popcorn**
2x Xeon 2683 V3 in my PC.

[Arya]

I wouldn't bother. Any i7 of that generation is still more than powerful enough to be a top-level gaming CPU, and if it's a 3770K you can easily match Skylake/Kabylake performance with 24/7 reliability.

[Dodece]

There is no such thing as a worthy upgrade at this time due to hardware stagnation, and frankly the issue isn't with the hardware manufacturers in the slightest. They have consistenly churned out reasonable improvements in performance on a year over year basis. The issue actually lies with software development. We now have better interfaces that would allow developers to make better use of those gains in performance, and yet the development community is slow to adopt these interfaces.

The number of games making use of either DirectX 12 or Vulkan is just plain pitiful. The issue is that these newer interfaces would better spread the load across multiple cores. Allowing for the improvement to become meaningful and apparent. Otherwise the improvement that one would gain from a better processor is negligible. We are talking about a major upgrade including a new motherboard, and newer better ram resulting in a gain of maybe a couple additional frames per second at ultra high definition.

Which is frankly where your mind needs to be at this point, and frankly it is about the only real place where you will be able to see the difference provided the graphics card is sufficiently old enough. I for instance might be able to see the improvement, but I am gaming on a GTX 970 on ultra high definition. Needless to say I have to dial quite a bit down to get, and say in the forties.

Anyway there is really no reason for you to upgrade your processor at this time as the need for doing so does not exist, and frankly enough neither does the incentive. Your games just aren't going to run any better for having a newer processor. Do not let the braggarts get you down on your rig. There is someone right now building a five thousand dollar rig in response to needs that will not exist for another seven or eight years, and there is someone building a rig for two grand in the name of future proofing their hardware.

The questions you need to ask yourself is as follows. Do you really think you can compete with the former, and as for the latter what exactly is it that they are upgrading from. When someone spends a couple grand on a rig more often then not. They don't intend to upgrade incrementally. They are building that machine to hold its own for say seven or eight years. Before they build a new two thousand plus dollar rig.

In either case they really don't need those extreme cutting edge parts right now. Their value isn't going to become readily apparent until three to four years from now. Anyway right now is exactly the wrong time to upgrade.

[Bad 💀 Motha]

If you have 3rd or 4th Gen i7, then really you should be fine for quite some time still.
If in need of upgrade, upgrade other areas you might be lacking:
- More RAM
- Faster Drives (such as SSD for your OS drive)
- Better GPU (as 3rd / 4th Gen i7 will have no trouble holding up, even with a GTX 1080)
- Clean install of the latest Win10 64bit build.

[Kaihekoa]

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SundownKid の投稿を引用：

No need to SLI 1070's, sell it and get a 1080Ti when that comes out.

Have you ever read the book "If you give a mouse a cookie"? I am kind of like that with PC hardware. If I sell my 1070 for a 1080ti, I'll want 2, if I get 2 ill want to liquid cool them, if I want to liquid cool them I'll want to liquid cool EVERYTHING. It's a dangeroud idea hahahaha. If I get 2 1070's I can fool my brain into thinking it's not the BEST so it doesn't need to be treated the best witih fancy cooling.


I have zero self control.

I know what you mean. I built my desktop in October and have already upgraded from an i5-6600K to a i7-6700K and am resisting the urge to get the i7-7700K. I also upgraded my CPU cooler twice going from a Cooler Master Hyper 212 Evo to a Noctua NH-U14S to a Noctua NH-D15. I was hoping to upgrade my Geforce GTX 1070 to a 1080 Ti too, but it doesn't look like that will be out anytime soon. It's like tuning a car/bike, very addicting (and expensive) to tweak everything for more performance.

[Azza ☠]

Ivy Bridge i7 3770 is fine and won't bottleneck a high-end graphics card for gaming purposes.

What's your current graphics card? You should focus more on that. Consider a Nvidia GTX 1080, for the biggest performance boost to cost ratio.

One thing to note about Intel Skylake (tick) and Kaby (tock), is they are improved in other areas such as faster bandwidth, USB 3.1, and DDR4 replacing DDR3 memory, etc. Gaming wise, this won't affect you much. However, depending on what else you use your PC for... processing work and data could improve greatly. DDR3 memory will be discontinued, etc.

It comes down to what you use your PC for mostly.