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go for the i5 upgrade kit, it will still be a good CPU to game with. But why would you change your current i5-4690K?

That Haswell chip will perform as good as a 8th gen core i3

to be honest you will need a Graphics Card upgrade only

Hey there

 

I just need some help in figuring out what is the best Upgrade kit to go with as i want to upgrade my current Gaming PC

 

Operating System
    Windows 10 Pro 64-bit
CPU
    Intel Core i5 4690K @ 3.50GHz    31 °C
    Haswell 22nm Technology
RAM
    24,0GB Dual-Channel DDR3 @ 799MHz (9-9-9-24)
Motherboard
    Gigabyte Technology Co. Ltd. Z97X-Gaming 5 (SOCKET 0)    28 °C
Graphics
    2436 (1920x1080@60Hz)
    Intel HD Graphics 4600 (Gigabyte)
    2047MB NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6GB (MSI)    32 °C
    ForceWare version: 398.11
    SLI Disabled
Storage
    931GB Seagate ST31000524AS (SATA)    25 °C
    698GB Seagate ST750LX003-1AC154 (SATA)    21 °C
    1863GB Seagate ST2000DL003-9VT166 (SATA)    24 °C
    223GB ADATA SP550 (SSD)    17 °C
    465GB Samsung SSD 850 EVO M.2 500GB (SSD)    29 °C
Optical Drives
    No optical disk drives detected
Audio
    High Definition Audio Device

 

 

 

 

 

Now the i play a multitude of games and would like to eventually purchase a 27" curved monitor 2560 x 1440

 

 

But i'm mainly torn at basically which would be the best to go 

 

Option 1

https://www.evetech.co.za/intel-8th-gen-core-i7-8700k-and-msi-h370-gaming-pro-carbon-upgrade-kit/best-deal/3952.aspx

Option 2

https://www.evetech.co.za/intel-8th-gen-core-i5-8600k-and-msi-h370-gaming-pro-carbon-upgrade-kit/best-deal/3953.aspx

 

They have the same Motherboards and same RAM but i'm wondering should i go with i5 or i7 as there is a massive price difference.

 

Any help would be greatly appreciated 

 

Regards 

Vortex :)

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go for the i5 upgrade kit, it will still be a good CPU to game with. But why would you change your current i5-4690K?

That Haswell chip will perform as good as a 8th gen core i3

to be honest you will need a Graphics Card upgrade only

"Make it future proof for some years at least, don't buy "only slightly better" stuff that gets outdated 1 year, that's throwing money away" @pipoawas

 

-Frequencies DON'T represent everything and in many cases that is true (referring to Individual CPU Clocks).

 

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With H370 you cant overclock at all. Either swap to Z370 mobo, or use the locked 8700 which is still plenty fast (with a graphics card of this level, especially)

CPU: i7-2600K 4751MHz 1.44V (software) --> 1.47V at the back of the socket Motherboard: Asrock Z77 Extreme4 (BCLK: 103.3MHz) CPU Cooler: Noctua NH-D15 RAM: Adata XPG 2x8GB DDR3 (XMP: 2133MHz 10-11-11-30 CR2, custom: 2203MHz 10-11-10-26 CR1 tRFC:230 tREFI:14000) GPU: Asus GTX 1070 Dual (Super Jetstream vbios, +70(2025-2088MHz)/+400(8.8Gbps)) SSD: Samsung 840 Pro 256GB (main boot drive), Transcend SSD370 128GB PSU: Seasonic X-660 80+ Gold Case: Antec P110 Silent, 5 intakes 1 exhaust Monitor: AOC G2460PF 1080p 144Hz (150Hz max w/ DP, 121Hz max w/ HDMI) TN panel Keyboard: Logitech G610 Orion (Cherry MX Blue) with SteelSeries Apex M260 keycaps Mouse: BenQ Zowie FK1

 

Model: HP Omen 17 17-an110ca CPU: i7-8750H (0.125V core & cache, 50mV SA undervolt) GPU: GTX 1060 6GB Mobile (+80/+450, 1650MHz~1750MHz 0.78V~0.85V) RAM: 8+8GB DDR4-2400 18-17-17-39 2T Storage: HP EX920 1TB PCIe x4 M.2 SSD + Crucial MX500 1TB 2.5" SATA SSD, 128GB Toshiba PCIe x2 M.2 SSD (KBG30ZMV128G) gone cooking externally, 1TB Seagate 7200RPM 2.5" HDD (ST1000LM049-2GH172) left outside Monitor: 1080p 126Hz IPS G-sync

 

Desktop benching:

Cinebench R15 Single thread:168 Multi-thread: 833 

SuperPi (v1.5 from Techpowerup, PI value output) 16K: 0.100s 1M: 8.255s 32M: 7m 45.93s

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Thank you so much  for your advice it is greatly appreciated.:)

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1 minute ago, VortexDash said:

Thank you so much  for your advice it is greatly appreciated.:)

no problem, try to find a 1080 for that i5 upgrade kit price (if not at least a 1070 non ti)

"Make it future proof for some years at least, don't buy "only slightly better" stuff that gets outdated 1 year, that's throwing money away" @pipoawas

 

-Frequencies DON'T represent everything and in many cases that is true (referring to Individual CPU Clocks).

 

Mention me if you want to summon me sooner or later

Spoiler

My head on 2019 :

Note 10, S10, Samsung becomes Apple, Zen 2, 3700X, Renegade X lol

 

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Are you actually CPU bound in anything you do with the 4690K? If so, where are you seeing issues, that may point us better at what upgrade path would be more fitting, maybe you do need the i7 cores. However as you upgrade from 1080p to 1440p or 2K+ gaming, it increases load on GPU at a drastically higher rate than cpu.

 

Or are you just upgrading for fun? I'm all for that, every time. If so, buy as much as your can afford, but keep in mind, Intel is dropping an 8 core for their "mainstream" platform, so likely socket 1151 in the coming months, and it's likely we'll at least see next gen gpu official announcements inside the next 3 months, so waiting just a few months may make a serious difference in what parts are available, or what pricing of current parts looks like.

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On 6/17/2018 at 12:13 PM, RobFRaschke said:

Are you actually CPU bound in anything you do with the 4690K? If so, where are you seeing issues, that may point us better at what upgrade path would be more fitting, maybe you do need the i7 cores. However as you upgrade from 1080p to 1440p or 2K+ gaming, it increases load on GPU at a drastically higher rate than cpu.

 

Or are you just upgrading for fun? I'm all for that, every time. If so, buy as much as your can afford, but keep in mind, Intel is dropping an 8 core for their "mainstream" platform, so likely socket 1151 in the coming months, and it's likely we'll at least see next gen gpu official announcements inside the next 3 months, so waiting just a few months may make a serious difference in what parts are available, or what pricing of current parts looks like.

Are you actually CPU bound in anything you do with the 4690K? just seeing performance loss in running baby VM's hosting small servers that 3-4 my buds play on (Ark,Teamspeak,Call of Duty(2007), Arma 3) and well it works beautifully (Hence the 24GB Ram) 

 

But as you say maybe wait and see what the market brings  but for the 1440p or 2K+ gaming like Ordinarily_Greater said rather look at a bigger GPU though that's why i asked for your guys opinion as  i have fallen so far behind and there is no such thing as future proofing in the PC world .


My main issue was many forums i read said you need a bigger PC and GPU for the larger monitors. that's truly how i came round to looking at upgrade kits rather than GPU's  

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VMs eat cores for every meal of the day. That alone would be a good enough reason to upgrade IMHO. But you'll really want at least 1 core per vm, plus at least 4 cores for your main system. I wouldn't get anything less than 8 physical cores. Which means you're going to want to sit tight just a while, see what Intel has coming. Word is that they're dropping an 8 core mainstream processor soon. When that happens, you can see if it's viable, or if a Ryzen 7 would serve you better, and how prices adjust once it hits shelves.

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  • 3 weeks later...

Would the 1060 6gb i have run the rog monitor till i can afford a new gpu? 

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