Need your Advice MOBO+CPU

[Juliogol]

As said in the title, I need your kind advice on these upgrades.

 

Currently using a I5 2500k + Asrock Z77 Extreme 4 Motherboard, but I sold them and tomorrow I have to make one of these two choices:

 

I5 4670k + Gigabyte G1 sniper M5 Mobo http://www.amazon.com/Gigabyte-BigFoot-Motherboard-GA-G1-SNIPER-M5/dp/B00CU4L6LQ/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1408654713&sr=8-1&keywords=gigabyte+g1+sniper+m5

 

or

 

I7 4790k + Gigabyte Z87M D3H http://www.amazon.com/Gigabyte-1150-CrossFireX-Motherboard-GA-Z87M-D3H/dp/B00CU4L4K4/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1408654745&sr=8-1&keywords=gigabyte+z87mx-d3h

 

My budget is for one of those choices, spend more on the CPU and a little less on the MOBO or the other way around.

Mainly I am going to use it for gaming, mostly BF4 is what I game the most, and on that game is controversial wether or not it takes advantage of Hyper Threading.

Usually render some gameplay and upload to youtube, but just for hobby, not professionally

 

So what is your advice? Thanks in advance for all the responses! this community is AWESOME!

 

PS: I have a R9 290 Sapphire tri-x GPU!

[threadysparrow]

i5

 

never i7 for games. Games don't hyperthread. Games don't use more than 4 cores mostly.

 

in fact I just got done with a lecture on another thread about this topic... LTT is turning into Yahoo news with the comments.

[i_build_nanosuits]

i5

 

never i7 for games. Games don't hyperthread. Games don't use more than 4 cores mostly.

 

in fact I just got done with a lecture on another thread about this topic... LTT is turning into Yahoo news with the comments.

that is actualy so untrue many games now makes use of more than 4 heavy threads and they all pretty much benefit from hyperthreading.

HT is also a more efficient scheduling for the CPU and even single and dual-threaded tasks complete faster (smoother games) with HT.

 

Hyper-threading and 8 threads or 8 core processors is a miss-consception, all hyper-threading does is feeding the cores in a much more efficient way with no down times and this for gaming also applies.

[Thebman712]

well your motherboard does not affect performance, but it does affect features, if the gigabyte board has what you need there thereis no reason to upgrade it. 

 

but that is a z87 board and a z97 chip

 

if you want faster render times then the i7 no doubt

[eugenius]

4670k / z97 pro4

 

with the difference buy a better (in this order) monitor, keyboard, headphones (fidelio m1 on amazon for 80$ right now)

 

enjoy

[threadysparrow]

that is actualy so untrue many games now makes use of more than 4 heavy threads and they all pretty much benefit from hyperthreading.

HT is also a more efficient scheduling for the CPU and even single and dual-threaded tasks complete faster (smoother games) with HT.

 

Hyper-threading and 8 threads or 8 core processors is a miss-consception, all hyper-threading does is feeding the cores in a much more efficient way with no down times and this for gaming also applies.

show me hyperthreading specs for games then. Over 4 games or bullshit.

[Juliogol]

Ok guys! Got the Gigabyte G1 Sniper Z87 motherboard and the Core i5 4690k CPU! Guess I made a right choice! What do you think? Thasnks all for your help!!

[i_build_nanosuits]

Ok guys! Got the Gigabyte G1 Sniper Z87 motherboard and the Core i5 4690k CPU! Guess I made a right choice! What do you think? Thasnks all for your help!!

no, you didnt made a good choice because the z87 motherboard wont support that cpu out of the box you'll need to flash the bios for it to support the 4690k...and you need a compatible (older) haswell cpu in hands to perform the bios update...you should have picked a z97 motherboard...good luck!

[Juliogol]

no, you didnt made a good choice because the z87 motherboard wont support that cpu out of the box you'll need to flash the bios for it to support the 4690k...and you need a compatible (older) haswell cpu in hands to perform the bios update...you should have picked a z97 motherboard...good luck!

 

They update it at the store, everything is working wonderfully