Upgrade worth?

[Random32]

My friend thinks it's completely worth it for me to upgrade from my 4.8Ghz 2600k to a 4790k. I honestly don't think so because the performance increase from Sandy to Haswell is like 10%. and sandy overclocks better because the transistors are bigger than Haswell's and dissipate heat better. And apparently it's so hilarious that my 2600k runs RAM at 1333Mhz. Apparently RAM speed from 1333Mhz to 1600Mhz makes a huge difference in performance that it's worth getting a new motherboard and CPU. 

So...

Is it worth it? or not?

 

 

I STRONGLY believe it's not worth it.

[Redsun20]

My friend thinks it's completely worth it for me to upgrade from my 4.8Ghz 2600k to a 4790k. I honestly don't think so because the performance increase from Sandy to Haswell is like 10%. and sandy overclocks better because the transistors are bigger than Haswell's and dissipate heat better. And apparently it's so hilarious that my 2600k runs RAM at 1333Mhz. Apparently RAM speed from 1333Mhz to 1600Mhz makes a huge difference in performance that it's worth getting a new motherboard and CPU. 

So...

Is it worth it? or not?

 

 

I STRONGLY believe it's not worth it.

You would be right, upgrading will just not be worth it

[gazabi]

Your friend is delusional. You're right in both aspects that a 4770k is not super mega awesomely better than a 2600k and ram speeds don't really have that much of an impact on pc performance.

[Samfisher]

My friend thinks it's completely worth it for me to upgrade from my 4.8Ghz 2600k to a 4790k. I honestly don't think so because the performance increase from Sandy to Haswell is like 10%. and sandy overclocks better because the transistors are bigger than Haswell's and dissipate heat better. And apparently it's so hilarious that my 2600k runs RAM at 1333Mhz. Apparently RAM speed from 1333Mhz to 1600Mhz makes a huge difference in performance that it's worth getting a new motherboard and CPU. 

So...

Is it worth it? or not?

 

 

I STRONGLY believe it's not worth it.

 

Sandy to Ivy = 10%

Ivy to Haswell = 10%

 

Not worth it if you're not having CPU issues anyway, considering you'd need to change your motherboard as well.

[Manswaggle]

And apparently it's so hilarious that my 2600k runs RAM at 1333Mhz

Now I'm a little curious about this, since my RAM runs at 1600 just fine. I think that has more to do with the motherboard than the processor.

 

As far as performance, lol.

 

My friend thinks it's completely worth it for me to upgrade from my 4.8Ghz 2600k to a 4790k. I honestly don't think so because the performance increase from Sandy to Haswell is like 10%. and sandy overclocks better because the transistors are bigger than Haswell's and dissipate heat better

 If you got your 2600k to 4.8, you then a 4790k is just not worth it. 2600k OC is just too great. The only time I can see upgrading an OC'd 2600k for gaming is going to be when there's a HUGE leap in technology requiring you to get a new motherboard/RAM/whatever else. Or processor technology jumps several generations, meaning game developers can put more things in their stuff.

[vembutech]

It's not worth.