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E3-1230V3 upgrade to 4790K

passey89

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Thinking of upgrading to a 4790K soon as i'm planning on getting another 980 shortly.

Do you think it will be a decent performance upgrade?

obviously I will be able to overclock it then as well so should see some decent gains if I can get it to > 4.3Ghz.
 
Will a 4790k even overclocked be worth it. How much cash will you have to part with to do this partially lateral upgrade? Anything more than £100 (GPU obviously excluded), I question it.
 
Deus Ex said:
Will a 4790k even overclocked be worth it. How much cash will you have to part with to do this partially lateral upgrade? Anything more than £100 (GPU obviously excluded), I question it.
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gaming at 4K so need every little bit I can get out of it tbh.

May just stick with the Xeon for now and upgrade mobo ready for 2nd GPU.

then get a better psu so it can handle it.
 
From the way you're planning one component at a time I'm going to assume you'd be interested in saving a few quid. Since you're replacing the motherboard anyway, the best thing for you to do IMO is pick up an 8320E and half-decent motherboard.

An 8350 with two 980s is close to or slightly beats a 4930K at 4K (which should be faster than a 4790K). You'll save yourself £172 that can go towards the GPU.

http://www.tweaktown.com/tweakipedi...g-gtx-780-sli-vs-gtx-980-sli-at-4k/index.html
 
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joeyjojo said:
From the way you're planning one component at a time I'm going to assume you'd be interested in saving a few quid. Since you're replacing the motherboard anyway, the best thing for you to do IMO is pick up an 8320E and half-decent motherboard.

An 8350 with two 980s is close to or slightly beats a 4930K at 4K (which should be faster than a 4790K). You'll save yourself £172 that can go towards the GPU.

http://www.tweaktown.com/tweakipedi...g-gtx-780-sli-vs-gtx-980-sli-at-4k/index.html
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really an 8350 is beating I7's in benchmarks now?
 
joeyjojo said:
Only at 4K. The higher the res the better Piledriver does.
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Something odd going on there - at 4K the GPU should be the bottleneck well before the CPU?

Clock speed related issue on the intel chip? as I don't see how a chip that has much higher IPC, higher memory bandwidth, can execute more threads, can be beaten by that AMD chip.
 
passey89 said:
May just stick with the Xeon for now and upgrade mobo ready for 2nd GPU.
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2nd GPU will make most difference @ 4K I would expect even if the CPU bottlenecks to some degree.

Get a board that does SLI now, and if the K series Broadwell turns out to be a drop in replacement, either get that or a good deal on a Haswell K series when other people upgrade,
 
Armageus said:
2nd GPU will make most difference @ 4K I would expect even if the CPU bottlenecks to some degree.

Get a board that does SLI now, and if the K series Broadwell turns out to be a drop in replacement, either get that or a good deal on a Haswell K series when other people upgrade,
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sort of the plan.

Got a 4790K arriving tommorow.

March Payday will be a Superflower 750W psu

April Payday will be a Asus Z97 Pro Gamer mobo

May b'day and payday gigabyte GTX980
 
Armageus said:
Something odd going on there - at 4K the GPU should be the bottleneck well before the CPU?
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Exactly. The Intel CPU is faster than the AMD, but at 4K both are hanging around twiddling their thumbs waiting for the GPUs to do their job so they post the same FPS.

passey89 said:
Yeh something isn't right and that's the only site I've found that has those results
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The results are legit, they've been discussed here and elsewhere.

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18653544
http://forums.guru3d.com/showthread.php?t=393640
etc.

If you've got £172 to burn then you might as well get the i7. Personally I'd stick with what you have and buy the GPUs and PSU first and see how they fare.

Edit: I see you've got the CPU coming. Buying the components in the wrong order IMO but whatever works.
 
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