Single core speed is near equal on 3770 and 1700 but you get 2x the cores with 1700. So if you can benefit from 8Cores (ie compiling for one) then it is a nice

Single core speed is near equal on 3770 and 1700 but you get 2x the cores with 1700. So if you can benefit from 8Cores (ie compiling for one) then it is a nice upgrade. If you rarely utilize all 4 cores on your 3770 then it is a pointless upgrade. That is the thing, going from a single core to 2 core pretty much benefited everyone. Heck PentiumHT was a big thing. Going from 2 core to 4 cores took longer to show benefits and 4 cores to 8 cores is going to be slower still to show benefits for most users. At the end of the day single core speed has been stagnating for the last 6 years every since Sandy Bridge which was the last big jump. I mean I plan on buying AMDs ThreadRipper 2 32 core chip since it will be of benefit to me for running 100 copies of the same program. Still those 32 cores will not help with regular computing.