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I7 4790K upgrade

leemk

leemk

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Well nearly upgraded , 5800x in basket , Mb , 32gb mem , now what GPU to go with it , doh should have popped into the graphics forum might have noticed theres a gpu shortage.
4790 & Vega56 will live a bit longer.
 
Ended up getting my mates MSI Z490 Plus and I7 10700k for what a 5600 was going to cost on its own so well happy , should be able to get rid of the vega 56 for what i paid for it 2 years ago so bought a 6800 nitro ,
Not sure how to sell the 4790k , seperate or as a mobo,cpu,ram bundle.
 
I would look for a ram kit that has slightly tighter timings but other than that it looks like a good value combo. A 5800x is a bit overkill for gaming but if you plan to do works which requires multiple cores then it's a good choice
 
Cant say i'm blown away going from the i7 4790k to the i7 10700k , think the i7 4790k would have happily played along with the RX 6800.
 
leemk said:
Cant say i'm blown away going from the i7 4790k to the i7 10700k , think the i7 4790k would have happily played along with the RX 6800.
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For gaming especially these Haswell/Devil's Canyon and Ivy Bridge era CPUs clock for clock, core for core hang in a lot better than many people think - especially at 1440p upwards. Hence I've just stuck a 6 core 12 thread Xeon in my X79 board for now.

The AMD 5000 series are the first significant jump and availability is meh currently anyhow.
 
Rroff said:
For gaming especially these Haswell/Devil's Canyon and Ivy Bridge era CPUs clock for clock, core for core hang in a lot better than many people think - especially at 1440p upwards. Hence I've just stuck a 6 core 12 thread Xeon in my X79 board for now.

The AMD 5000 series are the first significant jump and availability is meh currently anyhow.
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Yes it was (still is ) a fantastic chip , now going from my core 2 duo to the 4790 was a massive jump in performance , was expecting the same sort of thing.
 
Starting to see games though that push beyond 4 cores 8 threads though - Cyberpunk 2077 in a lot of places is making good use of my 6 core / 12 thread and in some of the busier parts having another couple of cores wouldn't go amiss going by CPU/GPU usage monitoring.
 
I went from a i7 4790K to a 3900X and there wasn't much difference really, it is faster but it depends on your settings. If you're cranking up the details you'll almost always be GPU limited in new games.

Still have the CPU with original box and stock cooler, they're still worth good money.
 
Rroff said:
Starting to see games though that push beyond 4 cores 8 threads though - Cyberpunk 2077 in a lot of places is making good use of my 6 core / 12 thread and in some of the busier parts having another couple of cores wouldn't go amiss going by CPU/GPU usage monitoring.
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Its the only game where i have seen all 10 cores and threads used, even FS2020 doesn't.
Wonder if 5950X users have seen all cores used?
 
turbot1984 said:
Its the only game where i have seen all 10 cores and threads used, even FS2020 doesn't.
Wonder if 5950X users have seen all cores used?
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Most of the time I see ~98% GPU use and 40-60% CPU on my setup (1650 V2 + 3070FE) but there are some bits of the game where CPU use goes up to 76-86% and GPU use drops back to around 80% with the CPU at stock and 86% with the CPU overclocked - by the looks of it the rendering threads utilisation drops back a bit as well at those points while the overall CPU usage increases but not to 100% so it likely would benefit from another couple of cores more than it would extra MHz - I don't think it would benefit much beyond 8 cores / 16 threads though.
 
My 4790k hangs on in there at 4K.

really want to upgrade but suspect I might end up disappointed.

If stock and pricing ever hits my sweet spot I’ll go for it
 
I'm on a 4690k and am just about looking to upgrade, was hoping something lower than a 5600x would be out by now, so i'm weighing up if i should go for a 5600x instead.
 
McGraw said:
My 4790k hangs on in there at 4K.

really want to upgrade but suspect I might end up disappointed.

If stock and pricing ever hits my sweet spot I’ll go for it
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I upgraded from th e 4790k to the 3800x and i think it was worth it so i think the 5000 series would be great
 
I went from [email protected], Z97X, 16GB DDR3-1600 to 5800X, MSI MEG Unify X570, 32GB 3600DDR4-3600
Gaming difference in frames is night and day difference, even at 3440 x 1440.

Downtown area in Warzone for example was a killer and would dip into 40-50fps, no difference turning down all GPU settings and resolution. Now its 97fps constant and without Gsync usually 130fps-200fps
 
Guest2 said:
I went from [email protected], Z97X, 16GB DDR3-1600 to 5800X, MSI MEG Unify X570, 32GB 3600DDR4-3600
Gaming difference in frames is night and day difference, even at 3440 x 1440.

Downtown area in Warzone for example was a killer and would dip into 40-50fps, no difference turning down all GPU settings and resolution. Now its 97fps constant and without Gsync usually 130fps-200fps
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1600MHz DDR3 probably holding you back a little there - though not hugely when I benchmarked BF4 with my RAM from 1600MHz with average timings through to 2400MHz with tight timings it was around 5-10% difference - probably a bit more with a dual channel setup vs my quad channel - though some newer games seem to show a bit bigger difference - probably due to more real time resource streaming techniques etc. used in newer games.
 
Rroff said:
1600MHz DDR3 probably holding you back a little there - though not hugely when I benchmarked BF4 with my RAM from 1600MHz with average timings through to 2400MHz with tight timings it was around 5-10% difference - probably a bit more with a dual channel setup vs my quad channel - though some newer games seem to show a bit bigger difference - probably due to more real time resource streaming techniques etc. used in newer games.
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Yeh, it probably was but the RAM was going on 10 years old. Kingston HyperX genesys grey if i remember correctly.
 
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