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is it worth upgrading the 4820k to ryzen

BRIGGBOY81

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as the title says, with the latest price drops i was wondering if it was worth upgrading as the 4820k is 4 years old now. was going to look at x299 but i am seriously not diggin the paste over solder solution, which looks like its going to be on coffelake as well. so any thoughts thx
 
Consider threadripper if you haven't already. AMD's version of x299 without the stupid prices and rubbish thermal compound.
 
Yeah was going to anyway, its was that there was some really good prices on the parts that I liked. Which of the threadripper chips are going to be the gaming sweet spot?
 
It's all down to what the CPUs end up costing really. I guess we'll have to wait a little longer to get reliable indications on price and that'll be the deciding factor. I have a feeling the Threadripper motherboards aren't going to be cheap though...as indeed they probably shouldn't be since they're aimed at power users.
 
Depends if you need the extra cores/threads - the 4820K with its soldered IHS, 40 PCI-e lanes and quad channel still holds up well in a variety of roles at ~4.5GHz :D

Personally won't be upgrading until I can get atleast comparable overall package and atleast 8/16ct at not too far off what I paid for the 4820K unless I find myself really in need of the power.

In my case I'm setup to be easily able to offload some tasks to my i7 laptop which helps to ease the need for additional cores until more games/software I use actually start to need lots of cores.
 
BRIGGBOY81 said:
as the title says, with the latest price drops i was wondering if it was worth upgrading as the 4820k is 4 years old now. was going to look at x299 but i am seriously not diggin the paste over solder solution, which looks like its going to be on coffelake as well. so any thoughts thx
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YES.
I had a 4820K @ 5Ghz and the difference was big when moved to 6800K @ 4Ghz and briefly to 1700X @ 4Ghz (no motherboard replacement in March so had to downgrade to 6800K).

For few months I had also a 4930K @ 4.5 and believe me, the new generation of CPUs is far superior both in MT and ST and I saw improvements in gaming also.
 
As above ^^^ the IPC on Ryzen is within margins of Error of KabyLake so even in Single Threaded performance Ryzen is going to be better than your current Ivy Bridge based CPU.

Even the Ryzen 7 would be a big upgrade from where you are at now...
 
For what it's worth I moved from a 4930K to a 1700X and the difference was surprisingly noticeable in games, the new gen mobo features are all cool too (as is the extra pair of physical cores).
 
ubersonic said:
For what it's worth I moved from a 4930K to a 1700X and the difference was surprisingly noticeable in games, the new gen mobo features are all cool too (as is the extra pair of physical cores).
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I agree with ubersonic who has the same experience I had since last September.

I went from the 4820K @ 5Ghz to 4930K @4.5Ghz for few weeks, to 6700K 4.8Ghz for few months, to 1700X and 6800K @ 4Ghz.

The latter two CPUs are much faster than the previous 3 even in single core games like WOT. And I mean FuryX at 1100/600 with the 4820/4930 was around 70-75fps, with 6700K was high 80s to mid 90s (all with dips to 50s in some scenes) with the latter two is 100-120fps constantly with some scenes which dips to 80s, at 2560x1440 maxed out everything.

And can be seen on the CPU core usage also. As wrote earlier today, on the 6700K/4820K core 2 was working most of the time at 90%-100%.
While having TS & couple of firefox/chrome tabs on, while one of them streaming internet radio.
4930K was bit better but not compared to the latter.

1700X (2666 dual) & 6800K (3600C16 dual) @ 4Ghz, the game is running at max 60% core speed and much higher fps, while the 6700K (3600C16 dual) was running at 20% higher speed than the and the 4820K at 25% higher speed (2666mhz quad - DDR3)
 
Panos said:
And can be seen on the CPU core usage also. As wrote earlier today, on the 6700K/4820K core 2 was working most of the time at 90%-100%.
While having TS & couple of firefox/chrome tabs on, while one of them streaming internet radio.
4930K was bit better but not compared to the latter.
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Something not right there or I'm misreading what you are meaning - I've got a ton of stuff going FF with 2 windows and around 20 tabs, streaming from netflix in one window (alternatively using spotify, streaming radio or youtube) while working on several different tasks in different applications - one core is running 20-40% utilisation and the rest 3-17% approximately.

Sure there are some specific applications where the newer Intel CPUs can have some big advantages but overall the 4820K with a reasonable overclock on it still holds up pretty well.
 
Rroff said:
Something not right there or I'm misreading what you are meaning - I've got a ton of stuff going FF with 2 windows and around 20 tabs, streaming from netflix in one window (alternatively using spotify, streaming radio or youtube) while working on several different tasks in different applications - one core is running 20-40% utilisation and the rest 3-17% approximately.

Sure there are some specific applications where the newer Intel CPUs can have some big advantages but overall the 4820K with a reasonable overclock on it still holds up pretty well.
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I was implying, that WOT was running also at the same time, while in game fighting :)
Hence the core 2 90-100% usage.
 
On my "big system" I binned my 4820k @ 4.6 with 32 gb 2133 on a RIVE to a 6850k @ 4.2 with 32 gb 3000 on an X99 strixx and it is much faster. All except the boot time which is embarrasing! I'd love to try threadripper but I've got too many systems as it is.
 
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