i5-2500K or i5-3570k ????

[ttechf]

What are you upgrading from, by the way?

A laptop. lol.

I haven't used a desktop computer since like 2005 and that was an AMD Athlon 2.8Ghz dual core.


Right now I'm on a Toshiba Satellite laptop, AMD 1.6Ghz Phenom II processor and this laptop sucks, it's SLOW. I can't stand it. : (

I read around and found out this processor for laptops was a bad buy, this thing gets hot too, not hot enough to shut down the laptop but hot enough where it can almost burn your legs and such. Very laggy performance on this.

This was AMD's first shot at a quad core processor, and a very low clock speed of 1.6Ghz. Just slow. : (


There you go, lol. : )

 

[Magic Carpet]

From a laptop, to a desktop. Interesting, a lot of people have been doing just exactly the opposite.

You won't regret it, though. The speed bump will be enormous, for you. Mark my words

 

[ttechf]

From a laptop, to a desktop. Interesting, a lot of people have been doing just exactly the opposite.

You won't regret it, though. The speed bump will be enormous, for you. Mark my words

Honestly, I'm sick of laptops. I've always wanted to build my own system too.

I have an iPad. That's nearly a laptop replacement right there.


I can probably sell my laptop for around $400 - $500. It's in pristine shape, box and everything. : )

 

[Meghan54]

Well, here's my unscientific view on this.......

I've recently done a complete step-by-step upgrade of my main desktop computer.

Original specs:

Asus Max. IV Gene-Z
i7 2600k @ 4.6GHz
16GB Corsair 2133
250GB Intel 510 SSD
HIS 6970 gpu


Current system specs:
Asus Max. V Gene
i5 3570 @ 4.4GHz
16GB Corsair 2133 (same RAM)
250GB Intel 510 SSD (same SSD)
Gigabyte 7970



Did the upgrades in steps......first, the gpu.

Second, the motherboard. After selling the Gene-Z locally, I spent maybe $25-30 for the upgrade at most (including gas cost of delivering the mb to the buyer.) I bought the Max. IV Gene-Z on sale...I tend to wait for sales on parts I want. I'm sometimes patient.

Then, I bought the 3570k as part of a MicroCenter mb/cpu combo for the $50 off the motherboard (I bought an AsRock Z77 Pro4-M for $59 with the cpu. That motherboard, along with a G620 cpu purchased at the same time for $50 from MC went into another computer build.)

Sold my 2600k to pay for the cpu/mb purchase. While I sold the 2600k cheap, it had no further use around here and I'd rather see someone use it than have it just sit in a box. (And I bought that 2600K as part of an old MC $80 off motherboard/cpu combo purchase.....sold the motherboard for $15 less than Newegg price and applied the savings to the cpu price, so paid a lot less than Newegg retail for the cpu. In the end, even at the cheap price I sold the 2600k for, I made a few bucks on it.)


So, after all is said and done, refurbished my desktop over a few months time and have a "new" computer for very few $$$$.

Is it faster? To my eye it seems a tad quicker on boot and opening apps up. The cpu does get hotter faster, but in the end, the max. temps I've been seeing aren't that much worse than the 2600k I was running at almost the same OC and with the same exact cooling solution (Corsair H100.)

Personally, if you're buying new, why buy the older tech when the newer tech is almost the same price? It is a slight bit faster, does run a tad warmer but not horrendously so as some try to allude to that it does....it doesn't. And it sure idles much cooler than the SB chip.

 

[cmdrdredd]

Gah, now I don't know what to do! haha.

cmdrdredd - you again bring up a valid point but the fact I don't do hardly any gaming I think should be a point too. Sure, I may sell the graphics card in place of a new one a few years down the line, if I only have to put $50 or so into the system but honestly, I don't know. I dont see it happening. Many many people out there run with just integrated graphics and many many people still run on Core 2 Duos from 2007 with no problem. So I won't be changing the processor and the graphics card, I just don't see why I'd need to? As long as I can watch movies well, and see a nice picture on my monitor with a game every now and then, thats good enough for me. : )

That's fine. I think it's a valid argument for Ivy over Sandy when buying new though so I always mention it.

Thing I was getting at is the 3570k can do everything a 2500k can except with added benefits, one being PCIe 3.0 the others being lower power consumption, improved quick sync video encoding (might be something you use sometimes), & faster performance at the same clock speed. I wasn't saying you'd change both the CPU and GPU, but if you hold onto this system like I held onto my Q9550 (built in 2008 and just upgraded this month) then PCIe 3 might be relevant to your performance sometime in the next 4-5 years.

 

[ttechf]

I will take all this into account, thank you very much guys. : )

 

[n0x1ous]

if you are not adding a discrete GPU get ivy 3570k for 50% more IGP performance....otherwise it don't matter.

 

[ttechf]

if you are not adding a discrete GPU get ivy 3570k for 50% more IGP performance....otherwise it don't matter.

Yeah, that's what I'm starting to figure. Thank you. : )

 

[cppguru]

Between the two processors, i'd pick ivy bridge. More IPC - Clock for clock.

most laptop's have capped performance due to hard drive. Get a SSD and it will shine like new.