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Hey all, my PC is getting old but funds are not there atm for me to upgrade it. I'm running an i5 4690k atm and wondered if I would see enough of an increase in performance with an i7-4790K?

My motherboard is Asus Z97-K with an LGA1150 socket type.


thoughts appreciated?
 
Yes and if you get a good sample (most Devils Canyon are) it can hit 5GHZ delidded.

What is your GPU and what RES you game at?

I run one @ 5GHZ+32GB Ram @ 2400mhz (10/12/12/28/1T) and a 3090 FE and will be on it till something big comes out from Intel in say 22/23.
 
Yes there will be a performance increase but it’s likely it wouldn’t be noticeable or very little. What resolution do you play at and what graphics card do you have?

The chips seem to be going for £120-£150 on the bay. Consider if this provides good value compared to a full motherboard, CPU and Ram upgrade.

Although out of stock on the CPU and you can save £10 on the RAM with another OOS set, this would be a considerable upgrade:

My basket at Overclockers UK:
Total: £250.43 (includes shipping: £10.50)​
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I think you're going to struggle to get a "cheap" 4790k, and arguably even so it's not going to give you huge gains.

You'd arguably be better to stretch to a more substantial upgrade (b grade 3600/b450 tomahawk ii and some 3200 ddr4), which could be done for ~270 assuming you already have an AM4 compatible cooler
 
1080p and im running a Geforce GTX 1080 (8gb Ram), incidentally the card was given to me as a friend upgraded and had it getting dusty in a box...utter madness.
 
Well CPU matters more at 1080p and some games like Flight Sim etc at any RES.

IMO you may get better FPS at 1440p, try DSR to see.
 
Armageus said:
I think you're going to struggle to get a "cheap" 4790k, and arguably even so it's not going to give you huge gains.

You'd arguably be better to stretch to a more substantial upgrade (b grade 3600/b450 tomahawk ii and some 3200 ddr4), which could be done for ~270 assuming you already have an AM4 compatible cooler
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My basket at Overclockers UK:
Total: £280.43 (includes shipping: £10.50)​
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MissChief said:
My basket at Overclockers UK:
Total: £280.43 (includes shipping: £10.50)
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I bought the above (minus the RAM) on Friday. Going from an i5 6600k to the AMD 3600. Waiting for the cooler to arrive tomorrow (today?!) and then I can build :)

Great price and should keep me ticking along for a few years (had my current build for about 5 years minus a cheeky GPU upgrade).
 
Vanilla said:
I bought the above (minus the RAM) on Friday. Going from an i5 6600k to the AMD 3600. Waiting for the cooler to arrive tomorrow (today?!) and then I can build :)

Great price and should keep me ticking along for a few years (had my current build for about 5 years minus a cheeky GPU upgrade).
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You could add another 16GB in the future and Chuck in a 5800x or 5900x in two or three years time for another boost quite easily as well.
 
Just to show you what kind of jump you'll get rotters. I just went from an i5 6600k to the AMD 3600 above. Our intel CPUs are quite similar. Some results:

In most CPU benchmarks it's coming out at almost 3x performance

Intel i5 6600k vs AMD 3600

cinemark 3582 (multicore) AMD stock = 9223 (multicore)
cinemark 949 (singlecore) AMD stock = 1245 (singlecore)
Performancetest CPU mark = 6445, AMD stock = 18322
Performancetest GPU 2D mark = 909, AMD stock = 850
Performancetest GPU 3D mark = 15810, AMD stock 16160
Performancetest Memorymark 3D mark = 2824, AMD setup 3081
3Dmark timespy = 6103 (GPU 6846, CPU 3780), AMD stock = (GPU 7173, CPU 6784)
3Dmark firestrike = 15538, AMD 18847
 
MissChief said:
My basket at Overclockers UK:
Total: £280.43 (includes shipping: £10.50)
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This is what I'd do too. That said, I did do the 4690k to 4790k and noticed a big difference in smoothness in CPU heavy games like BF5. But that was at 1440p, the OP is at 1080p, you'd think that'd see an improvement too.

But doing the above build suggestion would also allow you to drop in a 16 core 32 thread chip further down the road, which is ultimately the best option if at all possible.
 
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