£70 to upgrade from 4690 to 4790?

beany_bot · 11 May 2016 at 14:30

Is it worth paying lets say £70 to upgrade from my 4690k to a 4790k?

It would be second hand. Looks like I could get ~£130 for my i5 and get the i7 for ~£200.

Seems a fair deal but worried about buying a second hand chip. could be a bad overclocker...could have had a hard life.

teenwolf · 11 May 2016 at 14:31

beany_bot · 11 May 2016 at 14:33

teenwolf said:
no

my thoughts overall too.

Only thing teasing me is hitting that magical 5Ghz... I would love that. Or anything above 4.7 would be good.
I play a lot of FSX and raw clock speed is all important.

teenwolf · 11 May 2016 at 14:37

4.7 is plenty, at 5ghz you would not notice any difference.

Drollic · 11 May 2016 at 16:20

I've just made the jump from 3570k to 3770k as a stop gap. I think it's worthwhile now having seen how the division hammers my cpu sometimes. I've seen it hit 100% and regularly see 90% or just over. I actually see the upgrade pound for pound better than a 6700k system given the gains from ddr4. Don't want my cpu holding back a new 1070/1080 in 3-6 months.

Brazo · 11 May 2016 at 21:30

If you've got £70 to spare then go for it. An i7 chip is nice to have. I had the money to spare and went from a 4670 to a 4790. I can't say it's noticeably better in any games or even apps that I use but its a good 40-50% better in benchmarks!

ukxenon · 12 May 2016 at 06:30

Nope keep what you have

smsmasters · 13 May 2016 at 08:05

No, better to upgrade to skylake if you want a real upgrade mate.

beany_bot · 13 May 2016 at 08:27

Thanks all. Appriciated.

I've considered Skylake, but the new mobo, ram etc just makes it not worth while at the moment. I'll stick with Haswell for a few generations yet.

Brazo · 13 May 2016 at 20:57

smsmasters said:
No, better to upgrade to skylake if you want a real upgrade mate.

I disagree, it's a tiny incremental improvement, less than 4% when you look at benchmarks.

Quartz · 13 May 2016 at 23:07

Ashes of the Singularity would make use of the extra threads. The new Doom is apparently highly multi-threaded too.

gavinh87 · 30 Jun 2017 at 19:14

I'd do it.

AiiR · 30 Jun 2017 at 19:37

I did it with mine, I sold my 6600k for £130ish and bought a 6700k delidded for £170. It was worth it for me, because games like Overwatch absolutely minced the i5 so hyperthreading definitely helped.

Terrorfirmer · 3 Jul 2017 at 13:34

I would absolutely do it, try playing Fallout 4 or Battlefield 1 online on the i7 versus the i5 and the difference is pretty massive. Minimum frames in particular are so much better.

For £70 for me it's a no brainer really.

geordiejc · 3 Jul 2017 at 20:47

i upgraded from 4670k to 4770k for ~40 on the used market - worth in my opinion.

jigger · 7 Nov 2020 at 12:41

Id sell the CPU, motherboard and memory and move to something AM4.

humbug · 7 Nov 2020 at 17:34

This thread is 4 years old.

CAT-THE-FIFTH · 7 Nov 2020 at 17:35

Four years ago upgrading for £70 would have been a good idea IMHO!!

Lokken86 · 7 Nov 2020 at 17:45

Legend has it his grandchildren are still looking for a 4790.

humbug · 7 Nov 2020 at 18:13

Lokken86 said:
Legend has it his grandchildren are still looking for a 4790.

lol....