All I need to order my first new pc is a cpu, I7 4790k or I5 4690k...

[Bigsky108]

I have everything sitting at my house except my cpu. I just can't make up my mind. I'm honestly just going to be gaming on my pc, but is the I7 really that much better at multi tasking for the price? Not that a 100 extra bucks is going to hurt my bank too much but I just can't make up my mind...

Would you guys mind pointing me in the right direction please? Will I regret not getting the I7 a few months down the road? Thank you

[MegaDave91]

If you only game then you won't regret it. 

[EcoBoost]

I have everything sitting at my house except my cpu. I just can't make up my mind. I'm honestly just going to be gaming on my pc, but is the I7 really that much better at multi tasking for the price? Not that a 100 extra bucks is going to hurt my bank too much but I just can't make up my mind...

Would you guys mind pointing me in the right direction please? Will I regret not getting the I7 a few months down the road? Thank you

If you're just gaming, save the money and get the i5.

[ind3x]

Even if you make a couple of videos, the money you would have put into an i7 would maybe have been better spent on a better graphics card, a bigger SSD and so on.

[Just The Tips]

save a third of the price and go for an i5

[Krytopsy]

I would for i7, if you want to change it you would have to buy a new processor, a new motherboard and a new kit of RAM but whatever the motherboard you have, you can get any new graphic card whatever you want without having to change your whole computer.

[Monarch]

Assuming you have a high-end GPU, get the i7. i5 CPUs aren't able to feed GPUs like 290x and gtx 970/980 in BF4. My 4670k is bottlenecking my 290x in 64 player servers: http://i.imgur.com/iPRmQ15.png

Don't know what games you play but, if anything, the i7 is more future-proof. 

[i_build_nanosuits]

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/gaming-cpu-review-overclock,3106-4.html

We have seen a small handful of titles benefit from Hyper-Threaded Core i7 processors, though.

Because we believe this is a trend that will continue as developers optimize their software, we're including the Core i7-4790K as an honorable mention,

now selling for $340. In a vast majority of games, the Core i7 won't demonstrate much advantage over the Core i5. But if you're a serious enthusiast

who wants some future-proofing and values highly-threaded application performance, this processor may be worth the extra money.

[Faceman]

Assuming you have a high-end GPU, get the i7. i5 CPUs aren't able to feed GPUs like 290x and gtx 970/980 in BF4. My 4670k is bottlenecking my 290x in 64 player servers: http://i.imgur.com/iPRmQ15.png

Don't know what games you play but, if anything, the i7 is more future-proof.

The fuuu ? No. Just no. An i5 won't bottleneck an SLI system with any of those cards. Your problem is elsewhere, not the i5.

[Tech_Dreamer]

i5 would be enough,

 

But , if you're planning to keep your PC for a bit like 4 years or more i'd say things are gonna need that few extra horsepower , chances are you won't be just using it for gaming for all those years, since you have the money , I'd strongly recommend that you go with an i7

[kameshss]

Yeah @Bigsky108 try choosing i5 4690K.

If gaming is only your best option.

But another thing is always think of future, you should not feel like "I should've gone with 4790K" for some reasons.

So think both of that, then Choose the CPU.

Good luck choosing your CPU! 

Have fun! 

[Bigsky108]

Sigh... I'm already 2.5-3 grand into the damn thing. I just ordered the I5, I only play moba's and rpg's anyways really. Gaming is all I'll be doing besides surfing the web. Felt good to save a 100 bucks to boot.

Thanks again guys! I can't wait to post a build log of my first pc =)

[Linux User]

i5

[Monarch]

The fuuu ? No. Just no. An i5 won't bottleneck an SLI system with any of those cards. Your problem is elsewhere, not the i5.

 

Does the graph lie? If you look at the numbers it's obvious that the GPU was able to produce 100 fps, and I was getting 78 due to my CPU.

BF4 is a CPU heavy game, especially on 64 player servers. Bf4.exe cpu usage is around 95%, with fps being 60-90. And this is with 1 GPU.

[XiaoPineApple]

Does the graph lie? If you look at the numbers it's obvious that the GPU was able to produce 100 fps, and I was getting 78 due to my CPU.

BF4 is a CPU heavy game, especially on 64 player servers. Bf4.exe cpu usage is around 95%, with fps being 60-90. And this is with 1 GPU.

is 60-90fps not enough for u?

out of how many games atm uses more than 2-3 threads?

if u were at max setting with 77fps with one gpu, should feel pretty good right?

[Monarch]

is 60-90fps not enough for u?

out of how many games atm uses more than 2-3 threads?

if u were at max setting with 77fps with one gpu, should feel pretty good right?

 

You missed the point. My i5 is preventing my 290x from reaching its potential.