Upgrade path for 4770k ?

[Minusorange]

Just wondering what my options will be when I decide to retire my 4770k ?

Going to overclock it this coming week so I'm not looking immediately to upgrade but I'd like to know what choice I have and which chips would be the best upgrade ?

 

[gavinh87]

Whats your budget? What are your uses?

 

[Minusorange]

Whats your budget? What are your uses?

No budget but ideally best performance/cost, gaming, web browsing and music production

Not fussed if it's Intel or AMD but ideally looking for longevity like I've had with my Haswell

 

[Phage]

Longevity would mean a socket that could be used past one generation. So most likely AM4.
Best bang for buck currently is clearly Ryzen.

 

[Panos]

Longevity would mean a socket that could be used past one generation. So most likely AM4.
Best bang for buck currently is clearly Ryzen.

Aye with good high speed ram

 

[Journey]

Sounds like you are going to get another 1 year plus from the 4770K, so come back then and ask the same question, as the whole CPU landscape will have changed again. This thread is pointless unless you are doing it in the next 2-3 months, sorry!.

 

[Minusorange]

Sounds like you are going to get another 1 year plus from the 4770K, so come back then and ask the same question, as the whole CPU landscape will have changed again. This thread is pointless unless you are doing it in the next 2-3 months, sorry!.

So not really worth upgrading unless I absolutely have/want to ?

 

[Journey]

So not really worth upgrading unless I absolutely have/want to ?

If you find that OC'ing the 4770K doesn't satisfy your requirements, then yes if upgrade if you want, but it's a bad time until Coffee Lake is out in 'fall' (read 'Nov probably), and some reviews come in. Other than that best price/performance/longevity is 100% AMD AM4, and more than likely 90% of the performance for as much as 50% less cash outlay, and socket supported until DDR5 comes alonng.

 

[Minusorange]

If you find that OC'ing the 4770K doesn't satisfy your requirements, then yes if upgrade if you want, but it's a bad time until Coffee Lake is out in 'fall' (read 'Nov probably), and some reviews come in. Other than that best price/performance/longevity is 100% AMD AM4, and more than likely 90% of the performance for as much as 50% less cash outlay, and socket supported until DDR5 comes alonng.

That's why I was asking really just in case the OC still bottlenecks my 1080ti and so I've got an idea of what to look for when the time comes, but it seems it's bad time for GPU, bad time for CPU, bad time for RAM, bad time for SSD, it sucks being a PC enthusiast.

Thanks for the answers

 

[james_2k]

i wouldnt have swapped out my 4770k @ 4.8ghz if i hadnt broken it

 

[dazzlaa]

i wouldnt have swapped out my 4770k @ 4.8ghz if i hadnt broken it

How did you get it so high? My 4770k is great at 4.2 and sits at 65 degrees. Push it to 4.3 however and the thing cooks itself at 94!

 

[dazzlaa]

That's why I was asking really just in case the OC still bottlenecks my 1080ti and so I've got an idea of what to look for when the time comes, but it seems it's bad time for GPU, bad time for CPU, bad time for RAM, bad time for SSD, it sucks being a PC enthusiast.

Thanks for the answers

I have a 4770k paired with a Ti and the only time I find a cpu bottleneck is in Battlefield 1 at stock speeds. A slight overclock sorts that out.

 

[james_2k]

It was delidded and bare die mounted. 1.42 volts

 

[Minusorange]

I have a 4770k paired with a Ti and the only time I find a cpu bottleneck is in Battlefield 1 at stock speeds. A slight overclock sorts that out.

BF1 I'm not having issues, it's GTA V I'm getting issues with sometimes dropping below 60 fps even with the stock boost on to 3.9ghz, it's funny because it WAS fine until I decided to screw with the settings using geforce experience, now I can't get back to 100+ fps like I had before no matter what I do so figure I may as well spend next week OC'ing the Haswell and Ti to get some extra performance

 

[DarrenM343]

There's so much going on in the CPU space right now, new CPU's incoming both mainstream and HEDT, I'd be tempted to leave it a while and let the market settle down and then see where at with pricing and performance.

 

[Badfish]

4770k is still a decent CPU, I wouldn't bother upgrading it unless you must. It will cost quite a lot to replace the CPU/motherboard/RAM and the benefit will be minimal for gaming. Overclock it and it will be good for another year or 2.

 

[malachi]

Only worth upgrading if your motherboard or CPU had broke.......have you seen those DDR4 prices recently?!?!?

 

[CaptainRAVE]

I have my 4770k @ 4.4ghz (it needs too much voltage any higher) and along with my H100i tops out at around 70C max. Along with my Ti @ 1440p I haven't seen it bottleneck in any modernish titles. It is often under decent load though and I have seen it top out at 90% use in some titles. Will look into upgrading next year, but there is life in it yet.

 

[Disco_P]

BF1 I'm not having issues, it's GTA V I'm getting issues with sometimes dropping below 60 fps even with the stock boost on to 3.9ghz, it's funny because it WAS fine until I decided to screw with the settings using geforce experience, now I can't get back to 100+ fps like I had before no matter what I do so figure I may as well spend next week OC'ing the Haswell and Ti to get some extra performance

Delete the config files for gta then redo the settings in game and NEVER EVER USE GEFORCE EXPERIENCE for game optimisation.

 

[Minusorange]

NEVER EVER USE GEFORCE EXPERIENCE

Thanks, but..... Why not ?

I'm asking this as I've naively used for it all my games and even used DSR in the hopes it will use more of my Ti and less of my CPU