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When will we see a CPU thats double the performance of a 5 year old cpu?

2500k is 3.5 years old and the 2nd gen i5/i7 is where there was a reasonable jump in performance over the 1st gen i5/i7.

The i5 750 is still a reasonable CPU though and getting a GTX 270 is well worth it. Some games like BF4 that can use 4+4 hyperthreading is where the newer CPUs will show their performance.

As already mentioned it's also the extra chipset features on the newer generations that make them worth looking at, but only if you need them.
 
For single GPU systems, in most games there is no difference between a i7 920 and 4790k.

Thats a 6 year old CPU vs the current best mainstream 4790k.

I recently built a PC for a friend, 4790k, 280x based. We compared FPS in BF4 - we had itentical FPS. He had 1-2fps more than my 920.

So that's BF4 thats totally GPU limited.

In video encoding though, the 4790k blows my 920 away by a significant margin.

All those considering upgrading to the 4790k - better have a top end GPU ready to see any advantage with it. 2 GPU's more like it.
 
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