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How much longer will a 4770K @ 4.4Ghz remain a viable CPU for gaming?
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At least the current console cpu's are pretty weak and if it's true that the 4k consoles are not doing much in that department even the first gen of i7's will have plenty of life left in them. I'm on a Haswell i7 and I'm pretty sure that if I stayed with that it will still do an adequate job at gaming 8 or 9 years down the line providing there's no major direction change in how we game or how they run.
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I've got a 5820K and I honestly think it'll last me for the rest of my life (or at least till it breaks down under the OC).
Intel are just money grabbing ***** these days.
Intel are just money grabbing ***** these days.
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3770k and a GTX 980 here, I don't see my CPU being an issue for many years to come.
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The silicon lottery is a big factor,
My last cpu was a 4770k that was unable to go past 4.1 and remain 100% stable, I used a Corsair H100 with that and adjusted voltage too,
I bought one of the first batch 4790k's here at OCUK and thanks to the strong resale value of Intel i7's doing so only resulted in a £30 loss, However the 4790k sits at 4.5 with no voltage tweaking under an air cooler and it does make a difference to the day to day performance.
Looking at older i7's such as Sandy and Ivy it's the same thing but a poor overclocker can make enough of a difference to make an update something that's needed.
I made the mistake of buying a cpu, motherboard, memory & cooler bundle of the river once. The sale page stated I was buying the bundle prebuilt with a 4.4 overclock. It was my first attempt at a fresh build as previously all I'd been doing was buying prebuilt PC's and then updating pieces as I went (cpu, gpu, psu, memory etc). This bundle was built around an i5 3570k, Once built I lived with it for quite a while before the fact that it was only a small improvement over my PhenomII HP rig that it replaced became apparent, And that it was more because of the gpu upgrade, Gaming being it's primary use.
I became more and more unhappy with it over time and eventually decided to see if I could get any more out of the overclock, I'd never even looked at the bio's up to then and when I did I found that it was only clocked to 4.1 and anything beyond 4.2 was unstable. So I learnt my Novice lesson, sold it on and that's when i moved to the 4770k build. Which typically based on my type of luck was another 4.1 ghz cpu. Thankfully the Devil came through for me in the end
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The silicon lottery is a big factor,
My last cpu was a 4770k that was unable to go past 4.1 and remain 100% stable, I used a Corsair H100 with that and adjusted voltage too,
I bought one of the first batch 4790k's here at OCUK and thanks to the strong resale value of Intel i7's doing so only resulted in a £30 loss, However the 4790k sits at 4.5 with no voltage tweaking under an air cooler and it does make a difference to the day to day performance.
Looking at older i7's such as Sandy and Ivy it's the same thing but a poor overclocker can make enough of a difference to make an update something that's needed.
I made the mistake of buying a cpu, motherboard, memory & cooler bundle of the river once. The sale page stated I was buying the bundle prebuilt with a 4.4 overclock. It was my first attempt at a fresh build as previously all I'd been doing was buying prebuilt PC's and then updating pieces as I went (cpu, gpu, psu, memory etc). This bundle was built around an i5 3570k, Once built I lived with it for quite a while before the fact that it was only a small improvement over my PhenomII HP rig that it replaced became apparent, And that it was more because of the gpu upgrade, Gaming being it's primary use.
I became more and more unhappy with it over time and eventually decided to see if I could get any more out of the overclock, I'd never even looked at the bio's up to then and when I did I found that it was only clocked to 4.1 and anything beyond 4.2 was unstable. So I learnt my Novice lesson, sold it on and that's when i moved to the 4770k build. Which typically based on my type of luck was another 4.1 ghz cpu. Thankfully the Devil came through for me in the end
I can relate to that. My i5 2500k was a beast at overclocking, stable at 4.8, was amazing, then was pretty bummed at the 4770k tbh.
Going to wait to see what zen offers, and will probably sell the board, mem and cpu for a new upgrade.
Whatever zen brings to the table, should be good for the consumer and should force Intels hand. just waiting to see if it can come close to intels clocks, not just IPC.
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?? When talking about something new it can't compete until it's available, Zen will compete, Ultimately I do not think it will turn the market around in AMD's favour but Intels refusal to go beyond a quad core with there mainstream ranges may earn AMD sales they would not see otherwise, How well will depend on where performance sits and what AMD charge, If they offer something that can in fact keep up with Broadwell-e in 8 core usage and practically match Devils canyon in single threaded use they will have a good seller as long as they do not pull an FX9590 and price it like the second coming.
One thing I won't be doing is jumping on it as soon as it's available, But i will be following it closely to learn everything I can about general performance, what it's like for day to day use, what it's like for gaming and what advantages the platform gives.
I'd love to get my hands on an 8c/16t cpu that handles my day to day single thread usage as well as my current 4c/8t cpu does.
I recently found that my 6 year old i7 overclocked to 143% (2.8GHz to 4GHz) was a major bottle neck in my system even when various monitoring programs showed that it wasnt being utilised to 100% in games. It's a very difficult question to answer, but I will be changing CPUs every 3-4 years now regardless.
Time to go Zen
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