I'll keep this short: My FX-8350 is feeling long in the tooth. I'm talking about video games. Frankly, its gaming performance is depressing in most scenarios, and I can actually feel (and measure) its hindrance in some more demanding titles. Benchmarks clearly show it too.
AM3+ is a dying platform. AMD has no visible plans for high-end desktop CPUs for the forseeable future. I would really love having a big boost in CPU gaming performance right now, and it looks like the only direction for me to go is Intel, which means a new motherboard altogether.
My question: Is it worth it right now to upgrade to, say, an i5-4690k? Or is the improvement too marginal to bother with? Is Haswell a good buy at the moment or is it worth waiting for Intel's new CPUs presumably coming out in 2015? (I don't actually follow Intel's release schedule too closely, so sorry if I'm off-base).
What's weighing on me even more, is that DDR3 memory is on its way out and DDR4 has already started trickling in. But the only way to get DDR4 right now is to use one of those really expensive Haswell-E i7 CPUs, right? How much longer until Intel comes out with a next-gen i5, presumably with a DDR4 memory controller? Maybe at that point, DDR4 memory will be cheaper as well, faster, and it would be an overall better investment? What do you think?
With Christmas and end-of-year bonuses from work, I have money to burn, and could easily upgrade right now (if it's a good idea). But if it's better to wait a few months, then I am patient enough to wait. Please advise. Thanks in advance.