4790k in 2019

[pastymuncher]

Upgrade path I suppose. It's cheaper to drop in a 4790k than buy a new cpu, Motherboard and DDR4. I remember the same thing happening after AMD killed off socket 754 and then 939. I made a killing on Ebay for my old 754 3700+ and then my 939 4000+. I also had a Thermalright XP-120 cooler for them which sold for 3x what I paid for it on Ebay. The weird thing was that they could have bought a brand new one for less yet in the last 10 minutes of bidding there were several people fighting over it. I was watching them and was left speechless as the price kept climbing. In the end it sold for something like £65 if I remember right. Madness!!

 

[almoststew1990]

I'd be tempted to hold out until Ryzen, I couldn't stomach spending £150+ on a CPU that is going to struggle by the end of 2019. My 4770K is running flat out now in games like AC:Origins and physic-y games like Beam.NG, paired with a 1070ti.

I just checked, the last 6700k that I sold went for £125. Why are people paying £200 for Haswell i7's?

https://forums.overclockers.co.uk/threads/6700k-z170i.18836625/

I agree it's crazy but I'd imagine it's because it is the top end DDR3 CPU. I'll be watching ebay like a hawk over the coming months to sell in preparation for a Ryzen 3 PC. If I have to sell early I have a FM1 system I'll make do with. I have lot of PS360 era games in my backlog

 

[markoboyo11]

I'm in the exact same position as op, my 4670k is getting absolutely hammered in games these days.
But waiting for ryzen 3000 is the smart move defiantly.

 

[CaptainRAVE]

I'd be tempted to hold out until Ryzen, I couldn't stomach spending £150+ on a CPU that is going to struggle by the end of 2019. My 4770K is running flat out now in games like AC:Origins and physic-y games like Beam.NG, paired with a 1070ti.

Same here. Plus games that are quite CPU intensive as the world grows like Planet Coaster, Cities Skylines, Universim etc.

 

[ANDREW GREEN]

£200 for the 4790k seems too much when for £280 you could get Ryzen 2600, a cheapish motherboard and 16gb DDR4 dual kit. You'd be better long and short term as it'd be quicker and have an actual upgrade path.

Short term get a new GPU and you'll get a big jump anyway. Either of those GPUs or a Vega 56 would be a big jump.

Actually might be better value going for an I5 stopgap and it shouldn't make that much difference:

I picked up a cheap I5 CPU from CEX top upgrade an old Celeron system, which was much cheaper than Ebay. Cheapest i7 is £120 and about 10% slower than a when using a 780 TI. And there's I5 chips starting at £60

https://uk.webuy.com/product-detail...ing&title=intel-core-i7-4770-(3.4ghz)-lga1150

 

[Akagi]

All you lot moaning about 4790K's not performing well enough anymore

My Sandybridge 2700K clocked to 5GHz still seems to munch anything I throw at it and I play in 4K some of the time.

 

[chrcoluk]

It's still a very good cpu and I wish I had stuck with mine and waited for the new AMD Ryzen in the Summer. The problem for you is that you are limited to the likes of Ebay and are likely to be looking at somewhere around £200 for a used 4790k (I sold mine for £190 on Ebay in November and it sold within 4 hours of listing). With your i3 worth only £20-30 that is a expensive upgrade for a old platform and I feel the money would be better spent going towards a AMD Ryzen 2600, B450 motherboard and 8/16Gb of DDR4 3000mhz or faster. Even going with a lesser Ryzen cpu with the aim of swapping it out for one of the new ones in the Summer may be a good move. You should get a good price for your memory and Z97 motherboard on Ebay so will be able to claw some of the cost back.

probably this unless of course single core performance is paramount.

but of course the extra pain is buying the new ram, as the ddr3 ram wont fit into it.

So just getting a 4790k is still the cheapest upgrade.

4790k will get you about 1.3x single core performance of existing chip and 1.8x quad core performance.

 

[Alexrose1uk]

If you are going to upgrade the Haswell, keep an eye on the Xeons. A lot of motherboards support the Haswell based Xeons, and often those are available more affordably, although still not cheap.
My Haswell machine is ITX based, so the cost of overhauling the thing and decent cooling was a pain, managed to get a 4770 equivalent Xeon for £100 quite recently.
To top it off, the Xeon undervolts like a champ and is actually now running cooler than the i3-4130 it replaced under load despite going from 2c4th to 4c8th... ok Haswell to Haswell refresh...but Xeon silicon binning has certainly done me some favours which is great, as I've been able to keep the i3 cooler around even though its the weaker all-alu one, rather than the one with the copper slug.

Cost me around £70 after I sold the i3, which given it runs several hundred MHz on all core, has twice as many cores and threads and has an even higher single core boost, and seems to be a decent undervolter...should do me fine as a HTPC/backup gaming build.