Upgrading 4790K to 9700K worth it?

[Robert896r1]

If EVERYBODY had taken your advice and bought an Intel processor, they would still have full monopoly with 4 cores. That's Intels dream and they must be gutted that they couldn't continue selling those 4 core i7 processors. Do you want progress to stop again? I dont know why anybody would support and promote that.

I have no idea what this comment means. People have different use cases and should examine those before making a purchase. We live in a time where there's ample data points available to make an education decision. I don't carry water for any company.

 

[marms]

Wirh the i7 10700k coming in a few months I'd wait and see, the rumours suggest it'll be better than a 9900k for a lot less money.

 

[DONOHUE07]

On the i7 4970 myself, there’s nothing really worth upgrading to, well maybe apart from the 3800x, but it’s a costly upgrade.

Personally, I’m sitting on it for another couple of years, says a lot about the CPU industry that a 5 year old CPU can still hold it own..

 

[Postmodum]

I'm still running my 4790K @ 4.6/4.8 (depends on my spirit) with a 1080Ti

Been having this upgrade spree for some time now ... but I decided to get new case, new cooling, 1Tb NVMe ... preparing for future upgrades basically.

Now, one thing you can do is to get an AM4 system ... a 3600, a good mobo and some good ram and in the future ( i think ryzen 4000 will still work on AM4 platform ) just change the CPU for something beefier.

Those were my plans actually.

Intel for me doesn't really get me excited anymore and I was always an Intel user. AMD will give you way more upgrade path until AM5 comes out.