I feel like upgrading my 3570k Skylake will be the last CPU

>>56534109
Wait for KL and zen

>>56534127
I don't wanna use Botnet 10.

>>56534109
cheaper skylakes have the support for ddr3, but most of them are ddr4 so you'd have to get a new set of rams

also 3570k is still a good cpu, why would you upgrade?

You should actually downgrade to any Sandy(-E) cpu; both lga1155 and 2011 chips have soldered heatspreaders, unlike your Ivy, which has TIM'd IHS. Also 22nm chips will die in less than decade, because of heavy transistor decay, 32nm do not suffer from such problem and will last just as long as 95-45nm die's.
IPC difference between Sandy and Ivy is neglible. Actually i wonder why you even bought Ivy chip in the first place?

>>56534189
Emulation.

Citra just got a JIT, Xenia,and RPCS3 are making progress, CEMU too but a toaster can run CEMU.

>>56534273
Microcenter, it was cheaper than 2500k at the time.

>>56534280
Seems like a reasonable reason to upgrade, but I'd wait because Intel is soon releasing their new CPUs and even if they don't end up being faster, prices will fall on current ones so it's a win win anyway.

Just install gentoo

>>56534273
not him, but is there a large difference in IPC between westmere and sandy bridge?

>>56535030
Kaby Lake doesn't support Windows 7 though.

I wanna stick to no updates 7.

>>56535060
Not for many programs but there is a big OC ability difference which makes it worth it if you are going to OC.

>>56535060
Are you a woman?

Kabylake will support previous windows versions. The only difference between running it on 7 and 10 is that you will miss out on some very useless features mostly intended for laptops.

>>56535060

yes there is. sandy bridge is ~20% faster clock for clock. and it OC's much better.

>>56534109

just delid and OC it. ivy bridge is still good.