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3770K to 4790K, why?

AStaley

AStaley

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So a friend has offered to buy my m'board/CPU for £200, to give his PC a cheap boost for gaming. At the moment I'm struggling for a reason to sell other than doing him a favour.

Mostly I play games on my PC, Wildstar/WoW and BF4. Occasionally I will run up some labs in VMware or GNS3. But so far I can't really see where a move to the 4790K will make a benefit?

Even the motherboard doesn't offer me anything over what I have other than perhaps a move to a full ATX board. I'm looking at the ROG VII Hero.

Anyone see a reason for me to want to change?

**...I do have a 670 I keep meaning to put up for sale on the bay as well, so net spend to me is negligible.
 
Keep it, if you were to sell it make sure you get more than that! I wouldn't mind a i7 for Battlefield but atm that is the only game that could sort of use it.

If you are going to sell that GTX 670 make sure you do it sooner rather than later.
 
For a 4790k and a decent board you're really looking at £360-400, so assuming you sell the 670 you'd have enough for it to not cost you anything. I'd want a bit more than £200 for a 3770k and a Board though. Probably nearer £250. If you're into overclocking and you can get a bit more for the 3770k + Board and sell the 670, then I'd go for it IMO. 4790k has way better thermals and clocks higher.

E: As above, you could say no to your mate, sell the 670 and pocket the money you get for it.
 
AStaley said:
So a friend has offered to buy my m'board/CPU for £200, to give his PC a cheap boost for gaming. At the moment I'm struggling for a reason to sell other than doing him a favour.

Mostly I play games on my PC, Wildstar/WoW and BF4. Occasionally I will run up some labs in VMware or GNS3. But so far I can't really see where a move to the 4790K will make a benefit?

Even the motherboard doesn't offer me anything over what I have other than perhaps a move to a full ATX board. I'm looking at the ROG VII Hero.

Anyone see a reason for me to want to change?

**...I do have a 670 I keep meaning to put up for sale on the bay as well, so net spend to me is negligible.
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What a generous "friend" you have :D
 
Not really worth the switch if you have a decent oc on the 3770k. I done this move last year and tbh it was a bit daft in hindsight, albeit it was a 4770k I moved to. Much hotter than Ivybridge, (as is the 4790k).
 
I don't tend to OC, and gaming wise I see no difference in performance with the 4790K. Some value in perhaps getting the latest CPU/motherboard and selling when Skylake etc is released.

Also gives me the option to upgrade to Broadwell on release. Might see if my mate will up it to £250 :) With the sale of the 670 that's it all paid for...except the pain of having to reinstall everything again.
 
Still sat on a 2600K I can't find any good reason to move up from at the moment. I'll probably change board to a Z77 at some point (X68 atm) but pretty much only for raid-0 trim and maybe a slightly newer case.

I'd keep the 3770k for now.
 
SlugForAButt said:
Yet you don't own one. Please don't make statements like that when you have no idea.
He can guess for himself. Just like you did.
He needs facts, not guesswork disguised as fact.
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Who's guessing? This is a fact backed up by numerous online reviews, there is barely any difference between a 3770K and a 4790K in most games.

http://www.anandtech.com/show/8227/devils-canyon-review-intel-core-i7-4790k-and-i5-4690k (towards the bottom of the first page)

Also I am the OP. My reason for posting was more as a sanity check. As it stands moving to a 4790K for me and looking at it for use with games it would be a sideways step.

Spoke to my friend and persuaded him to go with a 4690K/Z97 upgrade. He's been running a Q9650 for a while, selling that should give him the extra for the upgrade.
 
In any games I've played with both sli gtx 670's and a single gtx 780. There was no difference between a 3770k and a 4770k. Only a few hundred points difference in some benchmarks where I found the 4770k at 4.2 matched the 3770k at 4.5. The 4790k is basically a speed binned to 4.4ghz 4770k, same poor thermals but better overclock potential.
 
Mercutio said:
Still sat on a 2600K I can't find any good reason to move up from at the moment. I'll probably change board to a Z77 at some point (X68 atm) but pretty much only for raid-0 trim and maybe a slightly newer case.

I'd keep the 3770k for now.
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Same with me. I've been running a 2600k at 4.3ghz for years now. The real-world gains from upgrading are so small it's just not worth the money.
 
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Nasher said:
Same with me. I've been running a 2600k at 4.3ghz for years now. The real-world gains from upgrading are so small it's just not worth the money.
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Same with me. I have a 2600k @ 4.5Ghz with 16GB Ram. Also using a Samsung Evo 250GB along with a GTX 670.

I am going to wait to see what Skylake brings as I don't think Devils Canyon is a great deal better than what I already have.
 
Swapped the motherboard and chip in my sig to a Ranger VII & 4790K last night. A royal pain with having to drain the loop and stripping the cpu block down, some nasty sticky stuff in the grooves. Anyway....

Up and running at stock and all I will say so far is that the system feels slightly snappier. So 4.4 >= 4.7

Its probably not really worth doing unless like me it was a free upgrade.

On a side note the Ranger VII is one gorgeous board and the BIOS is very good. I can't believe these boards only cost £130!
 
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