Upgrade path from now?

[xnoobftw]

Is there even any upgrade path for me without a change in motherboard? How long would the 4770 last without bottlenecking a videocard?

[Aytex]

like a 4790?

erm not really no

[Imakuni]

2 minutes ago, xnoobftw said:

Is there even any upgrade path for me without a change in motherboard?

Not really. And you'll have to change RAM as well.

 

2 minutes ago, xnoobftw said:

How long would the 4770 last without bottlenecking a videocard?

A while. A pretty long while... you'll most likely not have to worry until Cannon Lake / Zen 2

[xnoobftw]

5 minutes ago, Aytex said:

like a 4790?

erm not really no

Isnt a 4790 basically a 4770 with a better TIM?

4 minutes ago, Imakuni said:

Not really. And you'll have to change RAM as well.

 

A while. A pretty long while... you'll most likely not have to worry until Cannon Lake / Zen 2

Which is how many generations from skylake?

[paddy-stone]

I wouldn't think that a 4 vore/8 thread CPU will bottleneck any time soon, so I wouldn't worry about it, save the money for a better GPU?CPU when you actually need to.

[PianoPlayer88Key]

From around March 2012 to January 2015, I was using my dad's laptop.  It had a Core 2 Duo T7250; he bought it in August 2008.  (I'd also previously had a desktop with an Athlon 64 X2 4000+ from Feb 2008 to about March 2012, when the mobo croaked. I would have gotten a 2500K then if I wasn't broke, and I'd still be on it now.)

 

I bought the Core i7-4790K in January 2015, having gotten tired of my dad's laptop.  I'm planning to keep it for a good while, at least 7 or 8 years hopefully.  That means I'll most likely be skipping Cannonlake, all the way past Tigerlake.

 

Anyone have any idea about how long before my 4790K is as "slow" as my dad's T7250, relative to then-current hardware & software demands?  (Btw he's STILL using it! ?) I'd probably want to replace it by then.  If I had a Q6600, I might still be using it now, though.  In that case, I'd probably consider upgrading to Cannonlake, if the increased core count rumors are true.

 

Am I the only one around here who likes keeping my hardware a long time, and having a significant performance upgrade with each "generation"? ☺ (I think the biggest leap I remember from 1 PC to the next in my immediate family was when my dad went from a 286-10 in 1989 to a 486-120 in 1995.)

 

As for soon hardware upgrades, I'm eyeing the GTX 1070, upgrading from HD 4600, pending reviews and Polaris info.

Edited May 13, 2016 by Godlygamer23
Clean up.