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i5 4670k @ 4.4 Ghz - any worthy upgrade ?

An i7-6700K is a fairly hefty upgrade to a 4670K but not sure I'd bother with the hassle of a total system change. Going to a 4770k or 4790k would be more economical and it does give significant gains in some games (BF1, Fallout 4 spring to mind), also the faster the ram the better.

Depends on what you're playing, really.
 
pastymuncher said:
If you only need 1.165v for 4.4Ghz then I would be overclocking it a lot more than that. You should easily get 4.6Ghz+. Mine needs 1.275v for 4.4Ghz and then it gets silly after that.
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scottb777 said:
+1

Looks like a quality chip, very lucky.
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4.8 @ 1.278 boots fine, but falls down after 5 mins of Prime - so not stable.

I'm only changing the multi and upping vcore ( keeping below 1.30v ) - that's the limit of my knowledge and my comfort zone :p

It did boot briefly at 4.9ghz, but 5.0ghz at 1.32 was a no show, an A2 error on boot.

8pack could probably squeeze 6Ghz out of it :eek:
 
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Brizzles said:
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4.8 @ 1.278 boots fine, but falls down after 5 mins of Prime - so not stable.

I'm only changing the multi and upping vcore ( keeping below 1.30v ) - that's the limit of my knowledge and my comfort zone :p

It did boot briefly at 4.9ghz, but 5.0ghz at 1.32 was a no show, an A2 error on boot.

8pack could probably squeeze 6Ghz out of it :eek:
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Have a play with cpu input voltage. Mine needs 1.30v for 4.4Ghz and above. You may find that 4.8Ghz becomes stable.
 
Similar predicament here, tempted to get a 4790k over my 4670k(at 4.3) the main and only reason is fps drops in bf1. My gpu is only running at about at about 60%70% but my cpu is occasionally dropping from the 60 fps to 40s. not a huge problem but always hurts when something doesn't do what you want.
 
Bazippy said:
Similar predicament here, tempted to get a 4790k over my 4670k(at 4.3) the main and only reason is fps drops in bf1. My gpu is only running at about at about 60%70% but my cpu is occasionally dropping from the 60 fps to 40s. not a huge problem but always hurts when something doesn't do what you want.
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Ive never played bf1 but when I went from the 4690k to the 4770k I noticed a big improvement in GTA V and Dirt rally
 
jbh110tdi said:
Ive never played bf1 but when I went from the 4690k to the 4770k I noticed a big improvement in GTA V and Dirt rally
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Always have felt the 4670k was holding back the 295x2. its usually perfect but at times i see spikes or that the cpu is at 100%. bf1 been the most obvious with multiplayer
 
Personally I'd be inclined to hold on until the new year. It's just possible that AMD will come in with an aggressively priced 6 core/12 thread Zen to shake things up, which could be a nice upgrade.

I'm in the same boat - 3 year itch but nothing that's really worth the price of upgrading!
 
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