4690K is booked, now getting 4790k, good upgrade?

[Ninja_Commander]

So I thought my motherboard was causing issues with me getting a boot loop, when infact it was my 4690K. And it's no good anymore, and I'm without a computer till next week, been without one since Saturday night. 

 

So now my parents are doing a solid and asking one of their clients to help me get a new CPU, the 4790K, which is awesome that I'm getting for $339 on outlet PC. While it's sweet deal, I have to ask, is it worth it to still go with this hardware for a while longer? Or should I have bite the bullet and buy all new stuff, like the Z370 line?

 

The problem with option two, Rams expensive, cpus are hard to find, and not all board members have their good boards out yet. So was it worth it to just go for the 4790K, another 4690k, or go for the stuff?

[pas008]

How did you come up with it being the cpu?

 

And at that price you should sell rest and get 1600 or... Newer

[dizmo]

No. At that price it's not worth it at all. I'd sell your motherboard and RAM, and see if he's willing to get you an 8600k and RAM, since it'll end up being the same price, but you'll get better performance.

[Ninja_Commander]

4 minutes ago, pas008 said:

How did you come up with it being the cpu?

 

And at that price you should sell rest and get 1600 or... Newer

I had my parents PC guy check on my system, I don't have another CPU for the z97 platform, and I love having my PC for what I have. I did get another z97 board thinking it was the board, nope the CPU.  Also, I don't want to sell my awesome motherboard and 32gb of ram.

[pas008]

1 minute ago, Ninja_Commander said:

I had my parents PC guy check on my system, I don't have another CPU for the z97 platform, and I love having my PC for what I have. I did get another z97 board thinking it was the board, nope the CPU.  Also, I don't want to sell my awesome motherboard and 32gb of ram.

How was it ruled cpu though

Ram and hdd and many other things can cause boot loop

[Damascus]

$339 is a terrible price, you an get a 1700 for $270 or a second hand 4790k for $200

[itsmyjobtoknow]

OR.....buy used E3 v3/4 Xeon or i7 4770/4790K. 

[Heffe_The_Boss]

I would shop for a used 4790k... Thats the chip I have and it runs great, but no way would I pay full price (I paid 330 for it a couple years ago) today... Price out your components on ebay, see what you would get for everything... then do the math from there.... 

 

 

 

[pas008]

Question is can he boot to bios

 

Bad stick of ram will give boot loop

[Heffe_The_Boss]

2 minutes ago, pas008 said:

Question is can he boot to bios

 

Bad stick of ram will give boot loop

 

I would ask the shop owner to show him booting it with another 1150 chip... while keeping everything else in place... just to check to see if the guy is on the up and up, and to make sure that would really solve the problem. 

[pas008]

Just now, Heffe_The_Boss said:

 

I would ask the shop owner to show him booting it with another 1150 chip... while keeping everything else in place... just to check to see if the guy is on the up and up, and to make sure that would really solve the problem. 

Exactly

Been around the block many times Lol

Cpus are resilient if not throwing voltage or heat at them

Encountered many pc shops that couldn't even find the real issue also but then again i scored perfectly sound components because of their error

[Zodiark1593]

Assuming the cpu is the problem, those on the Haswell platform would probably be well advised to go with a platform upgrade, not necessarily for performance, but because everything for this platform is expensive as can be, DDR3 included (which is made worse by the fact that nothing newer can use it). If I was so inclined, I could probably sell off my stuff now, and not have to invest much more myself to go for a capable Ryzen cpu and mobo. DDR4 prices are the primary thorn though.

[JeJaRaLa]

1 hour ago, Ninja_Commander said:

So I thought my motherboard was causing issues with me getting a boot loop, when infact it was my 4690K. And it's no good anymore, and I'm without a computer till next week, been without one since Saturday night. 

 

So now my parents are doing a solid and asking one of their clients to help me get a new CPU, the 4790K, which is awesome that I'm getting for $339 on outlet PC. While it's sweet deal, I have to ask, is it worth it to still go with this hardware for a while longer? Or should I have bite the bullet and buy all new stuff, like the Z370 line?

 

The problem with option two, Rams expensive, cpus are hard to find, and not all board members have their good boards out yet. So was it worth it to just go for the 4790K, another 4690k, or go for the stuff?

buy the cpu  is more cheap that changing all system

even if you go for the cheap 8gb ddr4 mobo an cpu you wont  notice a big jump   vs 32gb  and i7 and good mobo no question stay on that some time when  intel  realese  the  8 core maintream cpu  you can upgrade to that

[Heffe_The_Boss]

"When to upgrade to another Socket"  <Thumbnail> Crazy cpu on fire while someone looks amazed at it</Thumbnail> sounds like a good linus tech tips video...   

  

Anyone know how to get a hold of the overlords? 

[TheSLSAMG]

31 minutes ago, Zodiark1593 said:

Assuming the cpu is the problem, those on the Haswell platform would probably be well advised to go with a platform upgrade, not necessarily for performance, but because everything for this platform is expensive as can be, DDR3 included (which is made worse by the fact that nothing newer can use it). If I was so inclined, I could probably sell off my stuff now, and not have to invest much more myself to go for a capable Ryzen cpu and mobo. DDR4 prices are the primary thorn though.

Ryzen is about the same IPC-wise, so the only noticeable increase in performance would be in applications that can utilize more than four cores. Couple that with the fact that the 4790K will definitely overclock better, and ultimately the i7 becomes the better choice for gaming.