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Originally Posted by CaramonLS
So is it worth to upgrade my system? I've actually gotten really good life out of my PC and have been really happy with it, but I've noticed that it is having more trouble keeping up with some of the latest games.
Currently have an i5-3570K processor + MSI z77a-g65 motherboard + 16gb of ram.
I was looking at the Ryzen 5 1600, since that seems to be one of the best bangs for your buck right now and it is 249.99 at memx. Of course, I would need to get a new motherboard with that, then upgrade my ram from DDR3 to DDR4, which is more money. And I might as well buy a new case and try to sell the old parts.
So... is it worth it to upgrade? Or should I just keep what I have for now? How much more performance am I going to get out of this thing with the upgrade? Also, which benchmark site is the gold standard right now? Just getting some mixed reviews when I try to look it up.
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Not really much of a reason to upgrade your CPU/mobo for gaming imo. You're only 4 gens behind, which in the CPU world isn't all that bad. Following the CPU scaling average, you would at most see a 28% overall increase in FPS. A newer GPU would probably (depending on what you have) be a much bigger increase.