cpu upgrade

[abletudu]

I currently have an i3-3220 cpu lga1155 socket and I am thinking of buying an i7-2600 lga 1155 socket cpu on amazon brand new including the heatsink for $100.

Would this be a good idea?

[Komarimaru]

Not for that price, no. You can get a used or refurbished for $15-30.

[Viking2121]

Yeah look for 1 on the used market, much cheaper on marketplace or even ebay.

[A&A]

Second hand markets have i7s 2600, 2700, 3770 for lower price. Even an old office computer with some of these CPUs should cost around 80$

[🦜Cloud Boy🦜]

First off, i7-2600 is a 12 years old CPU, it's simply not possible to remain any copy of them still Brand New, if any seller is calming such stuff , he is a fraud.

And, for $100, you can get a 13100, get a cheap motherboard with it and you will have a actual Brand-new current gen system which is significantly more powerful and will last longer.

[A&A]

Opprinnelig skrevet av 🦜Cloud Boy🦜:

And, for $100, you can get a 13100, get a cheap motherboard with it and you will have a actual Brand-new current gen system which is significantly more powerful and will last longer.

And DDR4 or DDR5 RAM - 50$
Mobo - 50$
12100F has better price/performance than i3 13100F - 90$

This is a good idea to save some money and use them later.

[hawkeye]

Ideally you should state your objective and budget e.g. which games do you want to run? That way you'll get the best result.

[Illusion of Progress]

That's a very poor price for that. I wouldn't spend more than $25 for $30 for any CPU that goes into that socket.

Look at the used market. If you want new, there are new CPUs around the same price that are substantially better. Yes, you would nee a new board and RAM but if you're paying a markup that high on a much older and much slower CPU it defeats the purpose of the savings of not having to buy the other parts.

Given you have a Core i3 right now (as opposed to, say, a Core i5) it might actually be worth going the used upgrade route, but I'd still only do it if cost for a new system is prohibitive and you see this CPU change as pushing the system to last another couple/few years with no other changes/investment.

[76561198343548661]

46%- 137% uplift depending on the app , is not bad . Well, the single core performance is the same but now the majority of the app s are multithreaded . But why not a used i7 2600 ? 100 bucks is way much otherwise . But , yes , the upgrade is worth , but at lower price if possible .

[GOD RAYS ON ULTRA™]

Opprinnelig skrevet av abletudu:

I currently have an i3-3220 cpu lga1155 socket and I am thinking of buying an i7-2600 lga 1155 socket cpu on amazon brand new including the heatsink for $100.

Would this be a good idea?

Get the ivy bridge like 3770. Should be able to find one for way cheaper than $100. I have the xeon version and it games really well. My xeon was only $20 and it's the same as a i7-3770 only with no integrated graphics.

Intel Xeon E3-1230 V2 SR0P4 4-Core 3.3GHz 8MB LGA 1155 Processor (Renewed) https://a.co/d/htczqqB

There's where I bought mine. I don't know why he shows a picture of a phone but it's a xeon CPU that fits in 1155 Intel socket and is actually pretty badass.

[GOD RAYS ON ULTRA™]

Here it is playing red dead redemption 2 with a gtx 1650. This build right here, if you're wanting a constant 60fps pretty much everywhere on the map, then this is the budget build for you.

The xeon 1230v2, 16g dual channel ram, sata SSD and the gtx 1650 and you are set ;)

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2184840411

[GOD RAYS ON ULTRA™]

$58 dollars, constant 60fps, what more could you want? It's pretty much the perfect setup unless you want 4k or ray tracing.

The i3-3220 is actually newer than the i7-2600. You'd be installing an older CPU. Faster, yes but still older, less efficient.

You might even be downgrading to pcie 2.0. vs 3.0. I'm pretty sure that the i3 support pcie 3.0 and i7-2600 only support 2.0 if I'm not mistaken.

[GOD RAYS ON ULTRA™]

Because there's no graphics that's why xeon is cheaper. I7 has graphics.

[A&A]

Yes E3 1230 V1, V2, probably V3 are dirt cheap because for 20-30$ you can get E5-1650 or E5-1680. There are many workstations that cost around $150-200 and because they want to sell them quickly, they list all the components separately. I was thinking to buy a such workstation with E5-1650 which has quand memory channel and overclock it to 4.6-4.7GHz year or two ago, but the fact you can go first hand with low end Pentium G7400 or Ryzen 5 4500 and having a little bit worse multi core and better single core performance.

[hawkeye]

OP plays cities skylines which doesn't run well on any socket 1155. And a new version is on the way. There are i7-6700 systems for $80 in my country. Even so, a 12/13th gen would be better buy if OP could afford it.

[ChickenBalls]

wow they want $100 for a 12 year old CPU
pretty sure you can buy used ryzen 5 3600 and a cheap B450 mobo for around a hundred bucks