Best LGA 1150 cpu

[GeorgeKellow]

Title says it all. Currently got an i5 4670k

[Swndlr]

4790K or 5775C

[Vercii]

4790k in my opinion. 

[Moonzy]

7 minutes ago, GeorgeKellow said:

Title says it all. Currently got an i5 4670k

1 minute ago, Vercii said:

4790k in my opinion. 

that i7, but it doesnt matter unless you're doing heavy multithreaded workload

[typographie]

The "best," as said above, are either the i7-4790K or i7-5775C. But unless you're going to be really heavy user of Hyperthreading, that's a really expensive upgrade for something that otherwise isn't much better than your i5-4690K. Depending on your use scenario, it might be better to just push your overclock as far as you can and wait for Intel to release a product that's actually a major upgrade.

[Aereldor]

8 minutes ago, Swndlr said:

4790K or 5775C

The 4790k wins this round in every respect but the integrated graphics, doesn't it?

[typographie]

5 minutes ago, Aereldor said:

The 4790k wins this round in every respect but the integrated graphics, doesn't it?

No, actually, at least not when it comes to CPU gaming performance.

 

Techreport tested it alongside all other flagship i7's for their i7-6700K review. It beat the 4790K in almost every game tested:

http://techreport.com/review/28751/intel-core-i7-6700k-skylake-processor-reviewed

 

Worth pointing out that the 5775C was behind the 4790K across the board in their productivity tests, though.

[Aereldor]

3 minutes ago, typographie said:

No, actually, at least not when it comes to CPU gaming performance.

 

Techreport tested it alongside all other flagship i7's for their i7-6700K review. It beat the 4790K in almost every game tested:

http://techreport.com/review/28751/intel-core-i7-6700k-skylake-processor-reviewed

These are the benchmarks I looked at. Also, is the Core i7 5775C overclockable?

 

[porina]

Depends on what you want to do with it. As an all rounder with some overclocking potential I'd go for the i5-5675C (which I have one of). My goals for a processor are a balance between clock, ram bandwidth, and cost. The 128MB L4 eDRAM in the desktop Broadwells essentially negates ram performance if the workloads are kept within that - bandwidth is roughly equivalent to dual channel 3200. Downside of Broadwell is they're not as overclockable as Haswell or Skylake so for applications that are more limited by CPU clock it isn't so great.

[porina]

4 minutes ago, Aereldor said:

Also, is the Core i7 5775C overclockable?

Yes, but they're not known for going as high as Haswell or Skylake.