I am running an i3 530 and on the whole it has been a great chip. More recently I have encoding a lot of video and have really noticed this is a pain. Looking to do an upgrade but the inevitable impending platform refresh this year has me wondering.
I rarely game and am using the onboard graphics - I tend to use my PC for productivity stuff and web aside from the video encoding and audio encoding. I suspect that any Ivybridge Core i5 would do the trick and give me a whacking great boost, so is it worth waiting? At some point I want to add a much bigger monitor, and at that point might opt for discrete graphics but as it stands my 17" Iiyama LCD is not going anywhere.
Thoughts?


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