So I’m currently running the 12th gen i7 3.60GHz and lately I feel like an upgrade might be due soon.
During heavy loads I usually have a game up such as Escape From Tarkov or Battlefield 2042 and various other games, but I also have discord up to stream and have my friends screens up as we play, and I also have chrome running with multiple tabs for maps, Crunchyroll, Netflix and such. (I watch anime in between matches and when I’m not too concerned about being competitive).
Would upgrading to 14th gen be worth it? I’d certainly like to upgrade from DDR4 to DDR5, so maybe a bundle upgrade would be in order?
If you have all that stuff running in the background, it might be worth considering. I saw a HUGE benefit going from a 12700 straight to a 13900K. All that small fry stuff gets put in the 16 e-cores and the game runs, uncontested, in the 8 P-cores. Everything is super smooth and snappy. Love it.
I usually have Edge, Discord, Spotify, VPN, etc all running in the bg so it was a big upgrade for me. Also a big upgrade for my video editing and streaming.
That is pretty nice. Over here I often stream/record, and have optimized windows and cut out as much background app noise as possible. While it might be nice to not have to do that, I’m sure I’d keep doing it out of habit even with a more powerful cpu