Advice on a possible upgrade route...

[oaksmokedbacon]

Afternoon all

My current spec is in my signature but to summarise it is a i7 4790k, z97 motherboard and 16GB RAM.

The I7 was a 2nd hand buy to upgrade from the i5 4690k when BF1 came out as the i5 did struggle maintaining stable FPS for my 144hz monitor. I am considering looking at upgrading but I've not kept up to date with the latest tech. Can those in the know offer some advice to this user on a upgrade path for the CPU, Mobo and RAM for a mid and high budget upgrade.

Couple of pointers - i prefer Intel (to me they have always been more stable builds) and would prefer i7 to the longevity. The PC is used for gaming and a bit of video making.

Anyway thanks for the advice in advance and look forward to peoples thoughts.

 

[orbitalwalsh]

Afternoon all

My current spec is in my signature but to summarise it is a i7 4790k, z97 motherboard and 16GB RAM.

The I7 was a 2nd hand buy to upgrade from the i5 4690k when BF1 came out as the i5 did struggle maintaining stable FPS for my 144hz monitor. I am considering looking at upgrading but I've not kept up to date with the latest tech. Can those in the know offer some advice to this user on a upgrade path for the CPU, Mobo and RAM for a mid and high budget upgrade.

Couple of pointers - i prefer Intel (to me they have always been more stable builds) and would prefer i7 to the longevity. The PC is used for gaming and a bit of video making.

Anyway thanks for the advice in advance and look forward to peoples thoughts.

bf1 does love cores/threads but have to ask, have you overclocked your i7 as your CPU bound at 1080p? also worth upscaling to 1440p in the game res options

 

[EsaT]

Intel has done only small IPC improvements since that CPU and especially it was also highly clocked for its time:
"5th" generation minor tweak Broadwell was basically skipped on deskptop.
"6th" gen Skylake was minor improvement.
"7th" gen Kaby Lake is rebranded Skylake with little more clocks.
"8th" gen Coffee Lake is just Kaby Lake with more cores.

So in most games upgrade would be minimal for the cost.
And with Intel swapping CPU sockets like salesman switching coats you wouldn't even have any upgrade path from Coffee Lake.

Only well multithreaded use would see bigger benefits.
And there AMD gives more bang for buck, with coming Zen+ combined to fast memory likely decreasing nicely Intel's advantage.
While offering upgrade path with same socket getting used to 2020 for further tweaked version of overhauled Zen2 architecture CPUs. (made with new process)


Better and lot longmer time return for money would be for example making sure your sound reproduction chain is up to the job.

 

[orbitalwalsh]

if you do want new , as above ^^ just got 3 weeks wait

 

[oaksmokedbacon]

thanks for the replies.

Yes the CPU runs at 4.4ghz. I could probably go higher but never really tried to push it that far. 4.4ghz is stable and works well. So upscaling would utilise the GPU more?

So the consensus is, stay as it is at the moment as the step changes in tech for the spend won't give me much of a performance increase?