is a 5 year old i5-10400 to a new ryzen 7 5700G a worthwile upgrade.

Posted by Independent-Run-5058@reddit | buildapc | View on Reddit | 7 comments

Most of my current build is about 5 years old (i5-10400, 16Gb ram and mobo) and I use it both for gaming and for work every day. Not to long ago I upgraded my GPU to a RX 6600 and I am sometimes noticing my CPU bottleneck.

Since I already have DDR4 ram and don't plan on going the DDR5 route in this economy, and because I worry if any of my components break I wouldn't have a backup I started looking in to upgrading to a 5700G + mobo I found a decent deal for.

Since I still have my previous GPU I could without too much investment use the parts I swap out in to something to hook up to my TV for couch play, make in to a home server or just keep as a spare PC.

Would it be worth the upgrade?

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TheMagarity@reddit

Most motherboards that take 10th gen can take 11th. You might check prices and compatibility for say a 11600k.

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Big-Salamander-2158@reddit

The 5700G is great if you want to use it stand alone for its integrated graphics. It relatively sucks compared to other zen3 parts for gaming because it has half the L3 cache.

If I look at techpower ups review from 5 years ago, it would be a whole 2,5% faster in games than your 10400 is.
Hardware unboxed found similar margins. And that was 5 years ago when it came out. Newer titles are harder to run and lean a bit more on that l3 cache to compensate, so the difference to a 5700x for example has become larger.

Also 5 year old i5 to new ryzen 7 isn’t really correct. You’ve used it 5 years, but that doesn’t diminish its performance. The 5700G is just as old, so you’d be upgrading from a 5 year old r i5 to 5 year old ryzen 6.