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4770k CPU - good for a fair few years !?

geordiejc

geordiejc

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i own a 4770k and i didnt bother with skylake ~10% improvement IPC.

Kaby lake has no IPC gains, i think i should get a good 4 years out if yet, before it will bottleneck a GPU. Whats your thoughts?
 
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Had my 4770k for just over 2 years, & not planning any CPU upgrades for a while yet.
I've been rather disappointed with the general performance increases with CPU's over the last few years.
 
Still rocking an i7 2600k at 4.8ghz and have absolutely no plans to upgrade unless Zen offers something ridiculous at a stupidly cheap price point (which of course it won't)
 
in a similar boat with my 4790, I honestly don't think it will be worth upgrading to any newer 4 core CPU ever, unless there are some fairly serious changes to the way computers work.

In a generation or two if 6 or 8 core CPUs prices start to be more reasonable and games start making better use of multiple cores I might upgrade to one of those.

This is why I'm excited about ryzen. I don't think I'll bother upgrading to one for my personal rig, but, if they work out, it will hopefully mark the move to the mainstream focusing on more cores.
 
geordiejc said:
i own a 4770k and i didnt bother with skylake ~10% improvement IPC.

Kaby lake has no IPC gains, i think i should get a good 4 years out if yet, before it will bottleneck a GPU. Whats your thoughts?
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Every time a thread of this nature appears, the same consensus is given. Any suite of benchmarks will tell the same story. No need to upgrade for a while. Yeah it kinda sucks not seeing technology move on but on the bright side you can save your money and be happy that you're going to get a lot out of your rig.
 
I have zero need to upgrade from my 4770k. In fact, it's too much processing power for my day to day stuff, so I was planning on building a i5 for daily duties, and keeping the i7 for purely encoding purposes (handbrake / FLAC-MP3).

Might as well await the Zen launch now though. I guess there is potential for 4770k performance for i5 prices.

Also, I don't OC my 4770k. Mostly due to the poor MB choice I made when building my system. If I did OC the 4770k, then for sure there would be zero need to upgrade.
 
Yeah, for sure. I just can't justify the expense just now on the old system. Even second hand MB's seem to be rather expensive. Unless I go for a socket 1150 i5 for the daily driver, and leave that at stock clocks.
 
Im kinda in the same boat, although i am really interested in a Zen 6 or 8c over my 4770k, however i may just delid my 4770k and see if my Gigabyte Z87 Sniper will give a decent OC to my 4770k, gotta say though Haswell OC'ing seems a bit confusing to me haha.
 
I'm in a similar boat with my 4670k which I've owned for ages running at stock speeds. I've just invested in a moderate HSF upgrade to enable me to do a bit of overclocking to extend the life a little bit longer as I don't really have the need for anything faster; my GFX card upgrade has given me more than enough boost for the time being.

Saying that, though, I am extremely interested to see what AMD have to offer, even though I won't be taking the plunge.
 
I'm still using I7 950 @ 3.8GHz doing ok for gaming, But I may upgrade to 6700K/7700K or wait for Ryzen. Either way it's going to be a big performance jump.
 
StarShock said:
in a similar boat with my 4790, I honestly don't think it will be worth upgrading to any newer 4 core CPU ever, unless there are some fairly serious changes to the way computers work.

In a generation or two if 6 or 8 core CPUs prices start to be more reasonable and games start making better use of multiple cores I might upgrade to one of those.

This is why I'm excited about ryzen. I don't think I'll bother upgrading to one for my personal rig, but, if they work out, it will hopefully mark the move to the mainstream focusing on more cores.
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My situation and opinion precisely. I will have a look at what Vega brings to the table and may treat myself to a PCIE SSD but the processor and motherboard will be staying for quite some time.
 
Im still using a I7 950 @ 4ghz with 6GB of ram. still good for gaming and video editing

stick with what you have, no point in upgrading at the moment
 
I have a 4770k which I've now reverted to stock for the quieter cooler running. Even at stock, I can't see a reason to upgrade when I game at 1080p 60Hz. I have only one storage drive, a 750GB SATA SSD, so I don't need any of the new connectivity.

I'll be using my money to buy a monitor or case or something.
 
almoststew1990 said:
I have a 4770k which I've now reverted to stock for the quieter cooler running.
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Have you tried undervolting for even quieter running, depending on PSU voltage stability they can be undervolted by quite a margin.

I have a 4770k with a mild overclock to 4ghz (all 4 cores) + undervolting and at full load CPU-Z reports 1.091v, been like this over 2 years stable.
 
xs2man said:
Yeah, for sure. I just can't justify the expense just now on the old system. Even second hand MB's seem to be rather expensive. Unless I go for a socket 1150 i5 for the daily driver, and leave that at stock clocks.
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Yes your right and I should have known as am in same boat! My z97 just went pop and I'm left with a 4790k in a h81 board!
 
4K accel, i7 for some video encoding, m.2 main C: drive on mobo are all nice to have one day but I'll stick with my i5 Ivy for now. I'll wait for an uber monitor followed by gfx card upgrade I think. Also, 10TB HDs and the price of fish these days!!...
 
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