Upgrade or Overclock

[JayVon_Ro]

Budget (including currency): 1800$ (in 2015)

Country: USA

Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: AAA gaming, Light CAD, multimedia.

Other details (existing parts lists, whether any peripherals are needed, what you're upgrading from, when you're going to buy, what resolution and refresh rate you want to play at, etc):
 "Upgrade or overclock"
It was a dilemma I tried justifying both ways.
My only issue so far is fan noise, in-game performance is great yet. I basically bought the best of the best at the time in 2015.
TLDR: I bought 400$ worth of watercooling components - De-lidding stuff - Thermal Grizzly stuff - Hardline tubing - CPU & GPU blocks.

4790k - Asus Z97 Gryphon matx MOBO w/thermal Armor - Corsair Dom Plats 2400mhz Cas11 - Samsung 860 evo ssd's - GTX Titan Black 6gb FE - CoolerMaster V8 tower cpu cooler version 1 - Caselabs Mercury s5 pc case- Noctua fans - CableMod cables.

Since I invested so heavily into the build already I figured it was my only opportunity to have a boutique build like these youtubers. It also gives me the opportunity to apply what I've learned about Overclocking / De-lidding / watercooling from these guys like GN/Linus/Jayz2cents/etc. over the years. It extends the life of what I own, F*** man I spent like 1800$ in 2015 for this build and more over the years in small upgrades. I'm not poor and could easily afford to just do a new top tier build but that only takes away from other hobbies and experiences or equity I could have. $400 in the grand scheme of things isn't really much considering all this time I've been running at stock speeds and just now seeing the need to "upgrade or overclock" Other solutions would be to just buy a 400$ G-card and call it a day. Or buy 400$ worth of cpu-mobo-ram I could, but then I'll still technically be mid-tier and have a loud-ish g-card. Or buy 400$ worth of watercooling stuff, stay Mid-tier with my current gear all while gaining free visible performance with some overclocks, quieting down my rig, and making it look like a custom youtuber pc. Win, win, win. I think anyways. Any criticism is appreciated. This post was made in response to Gamers Nexus recent video linked here
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9HV9V5nzOc

 

[The Sloth]

1- OC

 

2- if OC doesn't get you the performance you need, upgrade. 

 

 

 

4c/ 8T has been dead quite a while since Ryzen came out. 

 

 

 

 

What type of CAD work do you do? 

 

 

What types of games do you play? 

13 minutes ago, JayVon_Ro said:

My only issue so far is fan noise,

Did you tune your fans? 

[Aereldor]

Why would you not overclock a 4790k, that's what it was meant for. 

[JayVon_Ro]

At the time in 2015 I wasn't very knowledgeable in Pc's. I basically followed a PC part picker list of a caselabs build on youtube. Since then I just ran things at stock, not noticing a need for overclocking. In my defense OCing wasn't super popular YET. (or mainstream for that matter at least). And guides for them were not the best. So I pushed it to the back burner. Why I bought the K sku instead of a non K you asked Aereldor? Future proofing. At least that was my thought at the time. Run at stock speeds, teach myself OCing, and later when I notice performance issues, I'll have headroom to OC. 

From then till now to answer your questions NerdSlayer1

I use CAD to design parts for work on CNC mills and lathes, so I use CAD to convert DXF files to machine code. Server based rendering.
I have upgraded the fans and set Fan curves in Asus AI suite3
Added new TIM to both cpu and gpu
Experimented with XMP profiles, G-card OCing and cpu now runs @4.8ghz all core on air.
Only thing since doing that has been switching all storage to SSDs, and cosmetic upgrades to cables and things.
Only recently has the noise been too loud. Temps are a bit high as-well on the GPU side at 88C while CPU sits decently at 60ish C. Rarely do I drop speeds graphically but its been slowly happening more and more but maintains 60 fps or above in 90% of games I play. GPU sounds like an airship when pegged at 88C.
Undervolting might help but I dont want to sacrifice ANY performance. 
Logically my only answer to all this is to watercool mainly the GPU but for an extra 70$ and some time I decided to add the CPU block aswell. 60mm single HighDensity RAD. Hardline PETG. Most youtubers I watch claim they can push their OCs higher when on water, so also while I was thinking watercooling will solve the fan noise issues, I might also be able to push the OCs higher then the 4.8ghz cpu and the +185/+475 offsets to the graphics card. Maybe do some memory OCing aswell getting higher then the 2400mhz XMP profile.
I dunno I am mainly curious what others would have done in my situation. That GN video made me pull the trigger on all this watercooling stuff.

Games I play: CRPGs (POE 1&2, BG:EE 1&2, modded skyrim, Morrowind, dying light, RDR2, GTA5, Cyberpunk on release, starfield on release)

[The Sloth]

15 minutes ago, JayVon_Ro said:

Games I play: CRPGs (POE 1&2, BG:EE 1&2, modded skyrim, Morrowind, dying light, RDR2, GTA5, Cyberpunk on release, starfield on release)

Its not worth upgrading now, new Zen CPUs and RTX cardsare around the corners.