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Hello everyone. So I was thinking about getting a new Cpu. Rn i have an i7 4790K. I bought it like 5 years ago, and never had issues with it. But I wanted to upgrade to soemthing new as I feel like it is slowing down my pc in games. So I was looking at the 8700k. Granted I'm not an expert in these things but from what I'v seen the 8700k has a base frequenzy of 3.7GHz where as the 4790k is 4.2GHZ. Why is this a thing? How does that work?

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Base clock is the clock it will drop to if you are throttling.

 

If your cooling is adequate (on desktop CPUs anyway), you can stay at max boost clock all day under load. (8700k at stock is usually going to be 4.3ghz; 4.7ghz boost is single core only and that never seems to ever happen).

 

Of course if you overclock none of that matters anyway, it will be what you set it to.

 

In terms of is it worth upgrading, only if you are attempting to get high refresh 1080p gaming.

 

Or if your hardware is physically degrading.

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I have a 8600k coming from your 4790k (at 4,6) with a 1070 and for 1080p/1440p 144hz Your 4790k will trhottle a bit (like 70-80% usage while gaming with only the game running at 165fps or so) but I will recommend you to buy first a 144hz 1440p screen (with/without gsync, I love gsync btw) If you have a 60-70hz monitor (normal) or a 4k monitor you wont notice the upgrade (maybe a bit) but If you have a 144hz screen your cpu will be allways near throttling at 144fps 1080p.

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The resolution you are gaming on matters more. If you are considering upgrading, and can wait a bit, I would wait for engineering samples of Zen 2 CPUs to come out. They could potentially have fantastic performance for a very good price. Release is scheduled for end of Q2 this year.

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1 hour ago, Tiwaz said:

just by the way for how much would you be willing to sell your 4790k for? I own a 4690k but its getting pretty slow even with the OC and i cant really afford to buy new Ram, mobo and cpu?

Not sure but 150€ I think would be good price. The box with the factory cooler are brand new if that matters. But If I had to sell it I'd have to buy the new one first as it is a big investement considering I have to change mobo and ram for it too. Selling them as a bundle later would be preferable for me.

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1 hour ago, Jeki155550 said:

Not sure but 150€ I think would be good price. The box with the factory cooler are brand new if that matters. But If I had to sell it I'd have to buy the new one first as it is a big investement considering I have to change mobo and ram for it too. Selling them as a bundle later would be preferable for me.

I guess my i5 is still good enough :) but i appreciate the offer 

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