upgrading from haswell i5-4670k @ 4.3ghz

[hedgey]

Motherboard died and I'm not throwing good money after bad (hard to source a new z97 mb)- so its upgrade time.

need bang for the buck, something with equiv or greater performance bearing in mind my GPU is
a 970 and I don't play to upgrade it, mostly game at 1920x1200, eg. warcraft, which likes CPU clock.

giving the i3-8350k serious consideration. how are they for oc'ing? if i can spend an extra 50 quid for i5, i'll do that.

 

[humbug]

The 4670K and 8350K are both 4 core 4 thread CPU's, you're not going to see much difference and the Z370 platform suffers from the same dead-end-ness Z97 did.

If it must be Intel think about the 8400, or 8600K if you also want to overclock.

Or the Ryzen 2600 is just as good.

 

[Journey]

How did your board die or what is wrong with it?

 

[pastymuncher]

Have a look for a second hand Z87/Z97 board in the members market. There have been several for sale recently.

 

[~>Dg<~]

mobo will be about 40-50 quid should find one.what id go for tbh.your cpu is still pretty decent.

 

[hedgey]

How did your board die or what is wrong with it?

it died overnight with a usb 3.0 sdcard reader plugged in, but tbh it was crashing randomly for months before that. Gigabyte z97-d3h

 

[wellibob]

Way cheaper to get a 2nd hand z87/z97 mobo. Gains in new technologies you'd need to throw a good wedge of cash to see any tangible difference

 

[geordiejc]

ddr4 memory new mobo new cpu and cooler vs the cost of a 2nd hand z87 it's a no brainer for Warcraft. Buy used.

If you must upgrade consider Ryzen for bang for buck.

 

[~>Dg<~]

i googled his board and found one exactly the same on bay for £50.they arent hard to find and not that expensive.

 

[The Asgard]

I went from a 4.7 6700K to a 4.8 8700K and noticed no difference in my games or on the desktop. Unless you have a use for all the extra cores they will just sit there mostly idle. Inspite of what people might say, things generally speaking won’t change anytime soon.

Try to pickup a cheap board and only upgrade if there is a real need.

 

[Bluntwrapped]

I’d see if you can source a z97 Asus board as a replacement. As above, it’s not worth upgrading everything else.

 

[Phixsator]

z87 boards might even be cheaper used.