I'm looking at getting an i7-3770 to replace my i5-2500K in my aged 1155 LGA based PC. Clock speeds are quite similar, and Ivy Bridge was a fairly small improvement over Sandy Bridge microarchitecturally.

The main boost I'd get is 4 additional (logical) cores from Hyperthreading.

Will Visual Studio build faster and be snappier with those 4 hyperthreading cores? Or would I be better off just saving my money?

CodePudding user response：

i don't think upgrading to i7-3770 will make much difference , you should save money and go for something like b450 motherboard ryzen 5 2400G (4c/8t) or higher | note: i assumed that you will buy used hardware since you are on budget , the 2400g cpu is cheap at the moment and is almost like i7-3770 , the b450 motherboard has the ability to use m2 ssd and ddr4 ram which can help you alot later if you are going to use something like docker or virtualization

CodePudding user response：

I pulled the trigger on the i7-3770, and it knocked 1 minute and 25 seconds off the initial build time and deployment to the Android emulator of my MAUI app.

So yes, Visual Studio build time does benefit from Hyperthreading. :)

(Gotta set the max number of parallel project builds under Tools>Projects and Solutions>Build And Run to how many cores you want to use, in my case, 8)