I5 4590 @ Amd R9 390 8gb anything worth upgrading?

[edscdk]

My friend asked me this, he has been told by several people upgrading to an i7 would have quite a benefit... from past threads i believe this is not correct, and that his i5 is more than enough... his system will be limited by the video card? ... is there a sensible upgrade for his video card? (yes he just purchased it but he has plenty of money and might upgrade again)

I5 4590
Windows 8.1
Motherboard gigabyte z97p-d3
8gb ddr3 ram
Amd R9 390 8gb graphics card

 

[jbh110tdi]

what does he use his system for?
if its games. what resolution is he running at? what games does he play?

 

[zola25]

Personally I'd hold tight and see what Pascal and Polaris bring. An i7 will really only add benefit for multi-gpu, or certain non-gaming tasks such as encoding, compression and rendering.

 

[ED209]

what you have is fine, the general rule I see for CPUs on here is I5 for gaming and I7 for video editing, rendering etc

I still use a I7 950, 6GB of ram and a AMD R9 390 for gaming and have no issues.

only upgrade for the card would be a 980Ti or 390X, the 390x price difference is not worth the upgrade. wait till the next gen gpus come out

 

[P4Clock]

your setup is fine. should run most/all game on max at 1080 and high to max at 1440

 

[kefan77]

No need to upgrade. Ssd would be nice though even if no fps gain.

 

[Sky01454]

I dont see any reason to upgrade. You should be fine for awhile

 

[edscdk]

thanks for the info guys ill tell him to hold fire!

 

[~>Dg<~]

i swapped from a i5 to a 5820k overclocked and i can tell you in all games i benched i noticed upto a 20 percent increase all the way upto 1440 but at 4k there was now difference between the i5 in games and the 5820k

4k fps was nigh on exactly the same.

now the thing is what you do with your pc. while fps jumps may not be massive the lower minimums are a lot better and the general smoothness of games is vastly different.

your cpu is no slouch. so really its just upto you.

 

[Terrorfirmer]

Some games are more sensitive than others, Fallout 4 is one for example that has much better results on i7, and also with faster ram. Broadly speaking through going from haswell i5 to haswell i7 for purely gaming would be a waste.

Unless he's playing at 1440p ultra the 390 is fine for now, wait a while and see what the new releases bring.