I want to get a quad core for gaming because my high end i3 (i3-3220 3.2Ghz) isnt cutting anymore for the games that i want to play at high settings. Should i get a 3770k or a 3570k or even maybe a 2700k? But i really dont want to go backwards in technology than what i have right now ie (Sandy Bridge)
I want lasting performance for at least 2 more years on my current system
From what I have gathered, Broadwell is more geared toward lower power consumption. Unless you really need a feature off of the new chipset, I would stick with an Ivy Bridge CPU. The 3570k is still a reasonably good CPU.
If you just looking at running at high settings, you should probably upgrade your GTX 650 first though.
I would rather upgrade my cpu first so that if i buy a better graphics card than my cpu it wont bottleneck. Thats my logic though, and yeah i do want a quad core and the 3570k is so similar to the 3770k. except the hyperthreading.
thanks though
Grab a sandy i7 or xeon w/HT- should be rather cheap and still has plenty of grunt. Dont worry about 'k' chips your board wont get very far oc'ing em.
Agreed, except I vote for a locked down i5 sandy/ivy. It'll be plenty of power for your needs. And he's right about your board. It'll probably overheat like there's no tomorrow with an overclocked processor.
Get a 3570 if you can't or won't OC and a 3570k if you can and want to.
You don't need a 3770. HT doesn't make much of a difference in game anyway. That CPU should last you for prob more than two years.
Broadwell is more about performance per watt. Less than raw performance. Also, it seems to me to be, at least in terms of clock speeds, a step back. The leaked 6770k (the top end unlocked i7) has a higher TDP and slower clock speeds. I guess they could have made up for it with IPC improvements but I doubt those improvements will be very much since the focus on Broadwell is power savings.
Bandwidth may be an interesting feature of the next chipsets. CPU performance is unlikely to be the buzz but throughput on ssds, caching, qpi all have interesting potential. Silicon Photonics is being rolled out on the big iron.
As code gets optimized properly for symmetrical and/or heterogenous multi processing there are some very big improvements to be had with the added bandwidth.
Until the manufacturers change materials or fundamental processes heat has effectively stalled the gigahertz train.
Depending a bit on what motherboard you have.
It might be interessting to jump to haswell in some cases.
Not from a cpu performance perspective, but from a feuture, and faster sata connectivity perspective.
If you have a decent Z77 mobo, then basicly just a cpu upgrade to a 3770k for example would be a good way to go, even a 3570k is still a sollid cpu to go with for gaming.
If you motherboard is not that decent, then you might concider a jump to haswell, cause it has more feutures to offer.
Broadwell is not going to make any sense to me, they will only be a bit more power efficient, But will probably come with lower clockspeeds out of the box.
Which in my opinnion would make the 4790k or 4690k still the most interessting cpu for Z97 from a gaming perspective.
Is your system strictly for gaming? If yes, then 3570. If not, look at the applications you currently use, would you benefit greatly from HT? Do you need the power along with the 3770?