i7-4790k OC vs No OC

[duckwithanokhat]

I have a i7-4790k, but I don't have a z97 motherboard, kind of a stupid situation I'm in right now. So I want to know if it is worth buying a z97 motherboard so that I can OC the i7-4790k. Does anyone have an article they can direct me to, or perhaps personal benchmarks? Thanks.

[Vasllo]

First of all you need to know if OC will be of any use at all for you. If you're just gaming, the chances are that it won't, if you also use it as a workstation, probably will be useful.

 

Use MSI Afterburner and play the games you like and watch out for CPU utilization, if it's 80%+, you may benefit from OC. But even if you do, probably won't be worth it, because I doubt you're getting a hard bottleneck with this CPU to be worth a new MOBO.

[nicdepro]

Insanely worth it. How can I put it? it's like a fish out of water. The whole point of K series is overclocking, definitely worth buying a Z97. Without one you may as well have a 4790 (what I have, although the 4790k does have a slightly higher clock at stock) Having a 'K' series chip is very good for long term use, I guess you could say the 'K' is much more futureproof. You can overclock your 4790k to above 5820k levels, which is a ton better than the 4790.

[SwiftXShadow]

8 minutes ago, Mateus Campello said:

First of all you need to know if OC will be of any use at all for you. If you're just gaming, the chances are that it won't, if you also use it as a workstation, probably will be useful.

 

Use MSI Afterburner and play the games you like and watch out for CPU utilization, if it's 80%+, you may benefit from OC. But even if you do, probably won't be worth it, because I doubt you're getting a hard bottleneck with this CPU.

If you have friends then the OC value instantly goes up, for braging rights, that is actually 10x more important then worksation stuff.

 

If you have no freinds then OC is pointless.

[incarnate]

2 hours ago, nicdepro said:

Insanely worth it. How can I put it? it's like a fish out of water. The whole point of K series is overclocking, definitely worth buying a Z97. Without one you may as well have a 4790 (what I have, although the 4790k does have a slightly higher clock at stock) Having a 'K' series chip is very good for long term use, I guess you could say the 'K' is much more futureproof. You can overclock your 4790k to above 5820k levels, which is a ton better than the 4790.

So, going from 4.2-4.4 ghz to 4.7, MAYBE 4.8ghz is worth buying a second mobo? Personally I'd disagree.

 

And show me some benchmarks that an oc'd 4790k beats a 5820k in multithreaded workloads.

 

On topic though, I'd say it probably isn't worth the cost of getting a second mobo, unless somehow you're cpu bound. Better to put that money to an ssd or something.