I want to upgrade my Haswell i5-4670k soon.

[Xyes]

I currently am using an i5-4670k OC'd to 4.4ghz on air which I got about 4 years ago.  It's mostly for gaming with some streaming and light video/audio production on the side.  My CPU has been enough for the most part.  I think it's been holding me back a bit in VR gaming according to the performance graphs that are built into Steam.  I don't need the new CPU now but I'd like to start thinking about it.  Probably looking at an early/mid 2018 purchase.

 

What would be an upgrade that makes sense?  So I'm looking at maybe coffee lake or ryzen.  I haven't done much research just yet and I don't imagine there's much info on coffee lake at the moment.  I've also been under the mindset that a beefy i5 is good enough but I wonder if an i7 would help with VR.

 

 

[aisle9]

4790K. Keep your current setup and get performance within spitting distance of the 6700K/7700K, more or less even with Ryzen in gaming (if not a little better).

[Xyes]

Just now, aisle9 said:

4790K. Keep your current setup and get performance within spitting distance of the 6700K/7700K, more or less even with Ryzen in gaming (if not a little better).

Oh cool.  I didn't realize the performance gap was still that small.

[LienusLateTips]

7 minutes ago, Xyes said:

Oh cool.  I didn't realize the performance gap was still that small.

Wait for Covfefe Lake or upgrade to 4790K. Or 4770K.

[hammer3339]

4790k is a band aid for now, it'll waste some of you money that could be put towards a full upgrade as you'll be spending quite a lot for a board, ram and cpu.

 

I'd say wait for the 8700k, for a 6c/12t cpu with intels single threaded performance it should handle your streaming and VR gaming with ease.

 

there's a decent little gap between a 4790k and a 7700k but, it's generally only something to consider for high refresh rate gaming, if you're looking at a 1080 or so and a high refresh rate setup i would say definitely intel.

[shadowbyte]

Unless Coffee Lake is an amazing performance jump, I'd pick up a 4770k or 4790k used next year for a pittance.

[Xyes]

Just now, hammer3339 said:

4790k is a band aid for now, it'll waste some of you money that could be put towards a full upgrade as you'll be spending quite a lot for a board, ram and cpu.

 

I'd say wait for the 8700k, for a 6c/12t cpu with intels single threaded performance it should handle your streaming and VR gaming with ease.

 

there's a decent little gap between a 4790k and a 7700k but, it's generally only something to consider for high refresh rate gaming, if you're looking at a 1080 or so and a high refresh rate setup i would say definitely intel.

That sounds like a very meaty upgrade.  I do have a 1080 and a 3440x1440p100hz monitor that would go nicely with it.  Thanks for the advice.

[LienusLateTips]

Just now, Xyes said:

That sounds like a very meaty upgrade.  I do have a 1080 and a 3440x1440p100hz monitor that would go nicely with it.  Thanks for the advice.

Yep go for the Covfefe Lake

[hammer3339]

No worries mate