Overclocking Battle, Core i7-4770K vs. 8700K

[phatboy]

I'm still on 8gb of 1600mhz.

Thinking 16gb of 2400mhz and a 4790k would tide me over another year or 2?

Personally, yes. you have a 1080ti which stomps all over my 980ti and I run everything max at 1080/1440p at 60fps (Forza 7 @ 4K) no issues and the CPU has never been topped out and at most seen 10-12GB max RAM usage.

Obviously the newer cores will be more efficient and better at well everything, but £200 over £500-600 outlay, you are going to be getting brilliant bang per buck

Reviews like the one this thread is based show that the performance gap really isn't that huge.

I reckon I am 98% sure I will still be on this rig next year, might have an extra 980ti or a 1080 in it, but the same core

 

[X-Mikuru_Beam-X]

Re-visited , interesting video.

1080p Ultra

1440p Ultra

TLDR: 11% Faster clock for clock +2 cores DDR3 vs 4 + IPC. @ 1080p

Wow I’m so glad I watched this, I was getting ready to dump my 4770K thinking the 8700K would be a decent upgrade! Guess not.

 

[geordiejc]

I think its got a good 18 -24 months shelf life them a 8c 16t 8700k equivalent upgrade

 

[Deleted member 66701]

I swapped from a 4.8ghz clocked 4770k (would do 5ghz with high volts) to a 1950x. 4770k was great while I was gaming and I can't tell a difference with the 1950x but the 4770k couldn't cut it for productivity. As soon as I tried to do more than one thing at once (i.e. render a 3DSMax scene, edit an image in Photoshop and code in Visual Studio), things went to **** real fast. The 1950x doesn't even blink when doing this. Now I can even game while rendering or compiling in the background.

TLDR:- 4770k great still great for gaming, a bit **** for productivity.

 

[moogle]

I swapped from a 4.8ghz clocked 4770k (would do 5ghz with high volts) to a 1950x. 4770k was great while I was gaming and I can't tell a difference with the 1950x but the 4770k couldn't cut it for productivity. As soon as I tried to do more than one thing at once (i.e. render a 3DSMax scene, edit an image in Photoshop and code in Visual Studio), things went to **** real fast. The 1950x doesn't even blink when doing this. Now I can even game while rendering or compiling in the background.

TLDR:- 4770k great still great for gaming, a bit **** for productivity.

Back in the day when quad cores were the top end and dual cores just about the norm, that stuff was doable on quads. But obviously more and more software has moved onto to utilising even more cores so it's a given. Still not everyone has that sort of workload like you though.

I just keep a spare machine under the stairs and use that to do encoding or heavy duty tasks.