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Okay so running a 4330 in my current system and I am planning to upgrade I have about £200 which is enough to get a 4790k from a local store new and was wondering if this is worth upgrading or should I wait to upgrade to a new motherboard and get a skyline CPU bearing in mind it's £100 more expensive for the equivalent CPU plus the cost of a new motherboard. Also I really like my current motherboard. Is it worth it to buy the 4790k and my board does support overclocking.

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get the 4790k, it will be a great upgrade

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Just get the 4970K 4790K, there's no point in you paying that much to get all the new hardware.

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4790k is enough. Even a 4690k is enough for gaming. The 4790k will beat the i5 6600k and very close performance to the i7 6700k. I would get the 4790k instead of the Skylake cpus. 100 quits (idk how to spell it) doesn't justify the little performance gain.

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