At what point does my 4790k need upgrading?

[Guest2]

I've had a 4790k @4.5 ghz in my machie that I bought 2nd hand in early 2015 when it was already a few years old.

I see all these new chips like Coffeelake, i9, Ryzen... but am never tempted as would need a change of motherboard and I expect RAM too. No current games seem to max our CPU load so not sure when the CPU bottleneck will happen with my 2080Ti. Maybe other than in benchmarking like Timespy where I scored 11,858, GPU score 15,957, CPU score 4,829

Are some of these newer consumer chips designed with productivity in mind? I don't imagine they would be sold as enterprise chips for data center VM hosts but could be wrong

 

[bakes0310]

I'm in limbo at the moment I look at the latest offerings CPU related and it's difficult to know if I should replace my 6700k that seems to cope very well for an out of date quad core CPU. I'm tempted to keep it and upgrade my GPU to a Nvidia 3000 series along with a newer monitor to show it off.

I ran gears tactics benchmark and FPS was minimum 60fps, GPU usage 100% and CPU less than 5% that was at 3440x1440@60hz.

 

[McGraw]

It needs upgrading when it’s not doing what you need it to.

I’ve got one and think it’s time to upgrade for MSFS and will hopefully see some benefit in ACC and RDR2 too.

 

[edgedemon]

upgrade my GPU to a Nvidia 3000 series along with a newer monitor to show it off.

This will give you the quickest result and buy you time while you wait for the new chipsets such as zen3 and z490 to come in and get the reviews. I am running X79 still and have no issues with my CPU, I have 32Gb of RAM and I don't feel I need to upgrade. I get the itch as I want faster storage than SATA, but I can wait..

I have just bought a new 3440 x 1440 monitor and am waiting for the gfx refresh that is coming to get a new gfx card. Im hoping that will see me through to Zen 4 so I can all the 5 goodness (PcIe 5 and DDR5 etc..)

 

[~>Dg<~]

id sell up just before the new amd cpus drop.

 

[CuriousTomCat]

Your 4790K needs replacing at the point where it limits your framerate to a value you're unhappy with.

I can't think of any reason why anyone needs to replace a CPU or a GPU when they're 100% happy with framerate.

 

[mods1965]

I replaced my 4790K when my mobo died last year. Up to that point, it was fine for all my use cases. However, I have to admit that my replacement 9900K surprised me in those areas where lots of cores come into play. I did not realise how that requirement is growing in different use cases and the benefit is brings.
I also have a Ryzen 2600 in my second system and have also been impressed with that as well, even with six cores.
Wait for Intel 10 and Ryzen 4000 series to land and then have a look. I absolutely recommend you go at least 8 core as they are going to be well priced and that extra performance from those multi core will pleasantly surprise you.

 

[Joxeon]

If your CPU is not struggling then you might aswell hold out around 18 months as that's when DDR5 is coming also AM4 is practically EOL and Intel is still on 14nm, when DDR5 drops both AMD and Intel will have new fresh platforms, AM5 with 5nm CPUs and Intel should have some 5-7nm stuff out by then so it should be very competitive.

 

[Woodsta888]

Could always run the benchmarks in one of the tombraiders that shows whether you are CPU/GPU bottlenecked. I came from a 3770K @ 4.6Ghz and I noticed a fair difference in frame smoothness with my 1080ti going to a 3800X. In afterburner my GPU usage with the 3770k used to bounce between 85-100% and under 3800X it is 97-100%. I was due an upgrade and didn't think I'd notice any difference but I was surprised myself how much more noticeable (not just measurable) frame smoothness made.