Thinking to upgrade from a 4790k, advice?

[Grennyfell97]

I'm considering upgrading my current setup(with a new CPU (+mobo, ram & storage) and I'm currently tossing up between a 3700x, 9700k, or 3800x. These three currently have a roughly $40 AUD increase between them as listed here. I'm looking for advice on how to choose between them. I want the best gaming performance and I am wondering if it would be better to go with AMD if I like to have other programs running in the background if more cores makes this less of an issue. 

 

Just looking for any sort of input. TIA.

[Streetguru]

5 minutes ago, Grennyfell97 said:

I'm considering upgrading my current setup(with a new CPU (+mobo, ram & storage) and I'm currently tossing up between a 3700x, 9700k, or 3800x. These three currently have a roughly $40 AUD increase between them as listed here. I'm looking for advice on how to choose between them. I want the best gaming performance and I am wondering if it would be better to go with AMD if I like to have other programs running in the background if more cores makes this less of an issue. 

 

Just looking for any sort of input. TIA.

If you just want to double your cores get the 3700X, as it's the best value higher end CPU. You'll want to find some 3600mhz CL16 RAM if it's cheap

For pure gaming though the 4790K is still just fine.

[Coachdude]

Go with the 3700X. No hyperthreading on the 9700K makes it a very bad long term purchase imo, especially if you want this system to last as long as your current one has or longer. The i7 is technically faster in most games, but it's really a minuscule difference in most, all whilst being behind a good 30-40% in multi-threaded workloads. This is also without even mentioning the better platform overall that AM4 provides, better upgrade path, pcie 4.0 etc. The only Intel cpu I'd even consider is the 9900K or the KS, because of the hyperthreading they offer, but when you can get similar levels of overall performance with the 3700X and 3800X, I am hesitant to even recommend them to most people. 

 

TLDR: Between those three the 3700X hands down. It will age much better with it's SMT enabled 8 core die especially considering the next gen consoles are also going to have 8C/16T as a baseline.  

[Grennyfell97]

2 minutes ago, Streetguru said:

If you just want to double your cores get the 3700X, as it's the best value higher end CPU. You'll want to find some 3600mhz CL16 RAM if it's cheap

For pure gaming though the 4790K is still just fine.

If I was to upgrade, would there be a noticeable improvement in framerate stability? I feel like that's the only area the 4790k is letting me down in right now.

[Streetguru]

8 minutes ago, Grennyfell97 said:

If I was to upgrade, would there be a noticeable improvement in framerate stability? I feel like that's the only area the 4790k is letting me down in right now.

More cores/threads are likely to help with that as well
 

 

[i_build_nanosuits]

14 minutes ago, Grennyfell97 said:

If I was to upgrade, would there be a noticeable improvement in framerate stability? I feel like that's the only area the 4790k is letting me down in right now.

i can speak from experience as i use to have a 4.3ghz 4770K paired with 1080ti gaming at 1440p high refresh rates and YES upgrading to a 6 core/12 thread CPU or better will improve gaming experience a fair bit...my 8700K feel a lot smoother.

 

If you game at 60hz...or if you use a lower end GPU...might not be as worth it though.

 

oh...and if i had to choose...with prices right now i would go with ryzen 3700X and X570 board.