Is it time to upgrade?

[BH1983]

Hi guys,

I've had my current rig for about 3 years now and am wondering if now it the time to upgrade to coffee lake?

I mostly use my PC for gaming and handbrake encoding/plex streaming 1080/4k to one tv.

The specs I'm currently running are:
i5 4690
16gb DDR3
EVGA 1070 Superclocked
512gb SSD

My budget is about £600-£650, so would I see noticeable gains to justify the cost going for something along the lines of:
i7 8700k (OC'd to around 4.8Ghz)
Cooler Master Hyper 212 Evo
Asus Prime Z370-P
16gb Corsair Vengeance DDR-3000

The alternative is to keep saving and wait for the next generation of CPU on the 10nm architecture, but I'm looking for peoples opinions?

 

[orbitalwalsh]

Hi guys,

I've had my current rig for about 3 years now and am wondering if now it the time to upgrade to coffee lake?

I mostly use my PC for gaming and handbrake encoding/plex streaming 1080/4k to one tv.

The specs I'm currently running are:
i5 4690
16gb DDR3
EVGA 1070 Superclocked
512gb SSD

My budget is about £600-£650, so would I see noticeable gains to justify the cost going for something along the lines of:
i7 8700k (OC'd to around 4.8Ghz)
Cooler Master Hyper 212 Evo
Asus Prime Z370-P
16gb Corsair Vengeance DDR-3000

The alternative is to keep saving and wait for the next generation of CPU on the 10nm architecture, but I'm looking for peoples opinions?

Honestly wait till next year, 8 core Intel and Zeb + (refresh) . If you can find a i7 4790k second hand and sell your i5 might buy you extra year or so and give some power were needed

 

[BH1983]

I did think waiting might be the best bet, just starting to get the itch as I've ben running my 4690 for a few years now and wanted to get a processor I can OC.

Thanks for the advice!

 

[Badfish]

I have the same 4690 CPU in my NAS PC with Plex, it runs very well and upgrading to the latest CPU wont add a huge difference... I'm also itching to upgrade something in my desktop, but all upgrades I look at are expensive and not worth the money for my requirements. Personally I will wait til next year to upgrade either of my PCs.

 

[orbitalwalsh]

I did think waiting might be the best bet, just starting to get the itch as I've ben running my 4690 for a few years now and wanted to get a processor I can OC.

Thanks for the advice!

see what the second hand market is for the i7 version - since coffee lake is out and other might not of been able to resist :0

 

[Aneskimo]

The i5 you have has still got life in it so hold on and save up for next year with the next round of intel and Amd zen refresh

 

[Quartz]

I've had my current rig for about 3 years now and am wondering if now it the time to upgrade to coffee lake?

Not really, no. The only component I'd suggest is getting the i7-4790. Only get the K model if your motherboard supports overclocking.