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Thinking of a Haswell upgrade ?

This 4790k still does everything I need it to, but the amount of cash saved during lockdown means I'll probably change that up in the next month or two and sell a complete i7 system for what looks like ridiculous money elsewhere.

I was furloughed for 8 weeks and saved a fair bit cash despite that and now that I'm back at work again, I'm saving even more. So a new system is definitely coming soon.

I have a feeling if I go to something like a 3700x I'll not notice a massive difference though..
 
heatonpkmassive said:
This 4790k still does everything I need it to, but the amount of cash saved during lockdown means I'll probably change that up in the next month or two and sell a complete i7 system for what looks like ridiculous money elsewhere.

I was furloughed for 8 weeks and saved a fair bit cash despite that and now that I'm back at work again, I'm saving even more. So a new system is definitely coming soon.

I have a feeling if I go to something like a 3700x I'll not notice a massive difference though..
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It's nearly all GPU below 4K with any decent 4770K and ups CPU. Eight fast threads with 4 fast cores or ideally 8 +fast cores AND threads but as usual GPU is the bottleneck.
 
Jacky60 said:
It's nearly all GPU below 4K with any decent 4770K and ups CPU. Eight fast threads with 4 fast cores or ideally 8 +fast cores AND threads but as usual GPU is the bottleneck.
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Yeah, I fall into the 8 fast threads with 4 fast cores category, so doubt I'll see much uplift in higher frames, just better minimums. I'm wanting to try one of the upcoming Ryzens though, looking at maybe a 3600 or 3700x for now with a 4XXX 12 or 16 core later, B550 MSI Tomahawk, a 1TB NVME drive and 16GB of 3600Mhz Corsair/Teamgroup RAM. You can get crazy prices for a complete 4790k system on certain sites, mine would be equipped with a 1070 card as well, so would most likely sell.

That'd mean the upgrade might potentially cost me about 200 quid, for a current system. It's so tempting, but a bit of work dismantling this system and building my new one and then getting a cheapish case for my old parts, building all that and selling it. I think it's the hassle factor that's stopping me at the moment.
 
I'm planning to dump my 4790k cpu mobo and ram before the 4000 series launch. It's gunna be a long wait though. Not too fussed if it doesn't actually make much difference as mostly I just need a new shiney toy to play with lol
 
new boy said:
I'm planning to dump my 4790k cpu mobo and ram before the 4000 series launch. It's gunna be a long wait though. Not too fussed if it doesn't actually make much difference as mostly I just need a new shiney toy to play with lol
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:D

This is my problem! New and shiny! But I've always gone by the theory of 'if your current system does what you want it to do'..
 
I went from 2500k @4.5ghz to a 3600 if anything it feels slower(well slower is probably the wrong word slightly less snappy) in day to day gentle use probably because of the lower mhz
example I play coh 1 it definitely loads in the game slower than the 2500k it reminds me of having the 2500k at 3.3ghz

but the first game that was night and day was warzone , on the 2500 the pre menu and game screens were a choppy laggy etc now its smooth as silk

not really noticed much elsewhere though yet so a 4 core 8 thread will probbaly be good for at least a few years yet
 
C64 said:
I went from 2500k @4.5ghz to a 3600 if anything it feels slower(well slower is probably the wrong word slightly less snappy) in day to day gentle use probably because of the lower mhz
example I play coh 1 it definitely loads in the game slower than the 2500k it reminds me of having the 2500k at 3.3ghz

but the first game that was night and day was warzone , on the 2500 the pre menu and game screens were a choppy laggy etc now its smooth as silk

not really noticed much elsewhere though yet so a 4 core 8 thread will probbaly be good for at least a few years yet
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If you feel your 3600 is slower than the 2500k - you’ve done something wrong lol
 
LoadsaMoney said:
Fine, and don't regret it :)
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Good to hear. I'm really not expecting any spectacular difference, but I'm still not sure how it will pan out with the pandemic and figured I'd upgrade to more cores and threads now while I had the cash. I am expecting the frame dips to be less though.

To be honest, I'm more excited about having a system that will take the upcoming Ryzens, as I believe they'll be good.

But going AMD for the first time since my Athlon X2 4200+ :)
 
C64 said:
whys that then ? 4.5ghz 2500k is no slouch on non multi threaded apps
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I had 4.4Ghz 4770k and gone to 1600AF (2600 basically). Definitely faster response in office, chrome and general windows behaviour. Startup was noticably speedier (probably due to NVMe as boot).

So not sure what you are talking about there. Also probably contrary to anyone who has jumped onto the zen+ and beyond platform
 
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