No, I don’t think upgrading an old 3770 is necessary right now.
No, I don’t think upgrading an old 3770 is necessary right now.
When planning an upgrade, opt for a 3700X rather than a 3600. The logic comes from knowing the PS5 will likely use a Ryzen 8C or 16T processor, ensuring you won’t face threading issues with AAA titles from now until around 2027. Since games are primarily designed for consoles, a mid-gen CPU boost may not be as beneficial as it once was. My earlier choice of a 4C/8T back in 2014 made sense because PS4 and XB1 titles needed parallel processing across eight cores. While Ryzen offers solid performance gains, the IPC limitations of older Jaguar cores still mattered for those earlier games. So a 6C/12T might suffice, though I’d still recommend the 3700X even at the higher cost.
Unless you require PCIe4, DDR4 or NVMe, you can keep it for a while longer. Haswell and Ivy Bridge back up USB3, Haswell handles NVMe (though expect difficulties because boards lack M2 PCIe slots), Sandy Bridge (2000 series) typically doesn't support USB3, which is why upgrades are recommended soon. The 3000 series does support USB3, but few received fixes, so replace it if it's essential and without updates, Windows might lose about 30% speed. Haswell includes patches, but only specific boards received them. Currently, Intel 6000 series or older are seen as outdated, though no major issues exist since even 9000 chips haven't fully addressed the problem. https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cg...-2019-0162 Thus, until Intel resolves the issue, switching to AMD chips that avoid the same flaw is an option, though it's a tough choice.
Alright guys thank you for all your advices, they helped me to do my choice. I've decided to keep it for a little while until the budget is less of an issue or until there's a game i really can't play without upgrading. This option is the one that stands out most in all your posts and when i ask my gamer friends. The main thing that olds me back is the budget even if the combo would cost me "only" 350$. So i've decided it was not worth it and i should wait a moment where i can spend 350 without even having to care about it. Thanks for spotting that detail, i'll think about it when upgrade time finally comes. I don't need PCIe4 or NVME so I gonna push my 3770 as far as i can. Thank you for all these informations tho... would def concidere this if i had a critical system or security priorities !
I noticed an error in the edit, please let me know if you'd like me to revise it.
The Jaguar ended up using about six threads since two cores were set aside for the operating system. I believe this is why folks feel a 12-core setup is acceptable. I’m likely planning for 16, and I’ve also enabled the OS to run.