I7 7700k worth it ?

[jeff1304]

I am curious in how much of a performance increase I will see ? I am having some BSOD issues and is looking like i might need to reinstall windows 10 and figured i might as well upgrade at the same time. I would love to wait and see how amds new ryzen does but everything I am seeing looks like end of next month and I dont want to wait that long. I am curious to see what you guys think ?

 

My current system

• Cpu: i7-4770k 4.2 ghz
• Gpu: gtx 980ti
• Ram: 16gb ddr3 2400
• Motherboard: Asus Maximus VI Hero
• SSD: Samsung 840 pro 256gb, Samsung 850 evo 1tb
• HDs: WD 1tb black

[Scruffy90]

Doubt it. Your system is very similar to mine spec wise. I just decided to upgrade to a 6800k cause I do a bit more than gaming now a days and I'm in need of a second desktop.

[r4tch3t]

No the performance gain will be negligible, overclocking should close any difference. if you can, wait for Ryzen then decide if you want to upgrade, it's only a few months out.

[Drak3]

No, clock for clock, it's 5% better performance at best, with no worthwhile features. DDR4 support is also not essential.

[The Pikachu Mafia]

Definitely wait unless you heavily use CPU intensive programs, Haswell is still very good and CPU performance hasn't improved too much over the last couple years. You'll barely notice a difference in gaming, and even in CPU intensive programs the performance boosts will be relatively small. Plus since you're on an older chipset you'd have to upgrade your motherboard and RAM as well. (I would personally wait at least 5 years between CPU upgrades, it's not like your GPU which after 2-3 years will become outdated).

[jeff1304]

Yeah thats one thing that frustrates me with intel and why i would like to go to amd its like intel hasn't been trying for the last 4-5 years. just frustrated i want something faster and new intels are so marginal every year  Maybe il just reinstall my os and call it a day. Figured I would at least get 20% over the long amount of time. I miss the days of decent jumps like going from the cores to the i7 series. 

[rtpb5642]

16 minutes ago, jeff1304 said:

Yeah thats one thing that frustrates me with intel and why i would like to go to amd its like intel hasn't been trying for the last 4-5 years. just frustrated i want something faster and new intels are so marginal every year  Maybe il just reinstall my os and call it a day. Figured I would at least get 20% over the long amount of time. I miss the days of decent jumps like going from the cores to the i7 series. 

If you dont find your PC fast enough either you have a virus or your very impatient. An 840 pro SSD with a 4770k should be plenty. I am running 840 Evos, no longer in RAID 0 and it still can open anything i want instantly lol. If you want a faster PC maybe grab a second identical SSD and RAID 0 them with your motherboard and then reinstall the OS. Should give you a bump from 500MBps to 800-900MBps, at least thats what happened with my 840 evos, i was pulling almost 1GBps on the READ with them in raid 0, 750MBps ish on the write. Just make sure if you go this path to backup your PC regularly. I used to image my C drive once a week which had about 400GB of stuff between the two drives in RAID 0, i had it set up like this for about 1.5 years between multiple setups, even had the same setup in my macbook before i sold it and got my thinkpad.

 

Good luck

[jeff1304]

45 minutes ago, rtpb5642 said:

If you dont find your PC fast enough either you have a virus or your very impatient. An 840 pro SSD with a 4770k should be plenty. I am running 840 Evos, no longer in RAID 0 and it still can open anything i want instantly lol. If you want a faster PC maybe grab a second identical SSD and RAID 0 them with your motherboard and then reinstall the OS. Should give you a bump from 500MBps to 800-900MBps, at least thats what happened with my 840 evos, i was pulling almost 1GBps on the READ with them in raid 0, 750MBps ish on the write. Just make sure if you go this path to backup your PC regularly. I used to image my C drive once a week which had about 400GB of stuff between the two drives in RAID 0, i had it set up like this for about 1.5 years between multiple setups, even had the same setup in my macbook before i sold it and got my thinkpad.

 

Good luck

no its plenty fast right now but something could always be faster  just amazes me how slow cpu have been progressing for the last 5 or so years.

[done12many2]

If you overclock, then yes, it could be very well worth it.  The 7700k is hitting some pretty insane clockspeeds which are more than making up for lack of IPC improvements over Skylake.  If you're just going to run stock, keep what you have.

[smokefest]

not worth to upgrade from 4770k to 7700k

[smokefest]

or maybe a bit 
 

 

[rtpb5642]

20 hours ago, smokefest said:

or maybe a bit 
 

 

curious if they OCed the 4770k to match 7700k clock speeds, i imagine they would be a tie or very very close to it. to gain a few fps it would cost less to buy a second GPU and SLI lol

motherboard RAM and CPU add up for an i7

[smokefest]

17 hours ago, rtpb5642 said:

curious if they OCed the 4770k to match 7700k clock speeds, i imagine they would be a tie or very very close to it. to gain a few fps it would cost less to buy a second GPU and SLI lol

motherboard RAM and CPU add up for an i7

4770k and 4790k are a bit behind the 6700k and the 7700k, its noticeable in some games

[Andre4790k]

"behind"? Look the 4790k in gaming: http://www.overclockersclub.com/reviews/intel_7th_generation_core_i7_7700k_processor/8.htm

[Princess Luna]

On 16/01/2017 at 1:01 AM, jeff1304 said:

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Your processor is good enough for until 2020... forget Kaby Lake it ain't worth it.

[ybriK]

I asked myself the same thing but I didn't upgrade because my i7-2700K at 4.5GHz can match a stock i7-6700K in either gaming or applications. Considering that Kaby Lake is close in IPC performance against Skylake it wouldn't surprise me if I'm just a bit behind a stock i7-7700K. But yes obviously OC the new guys and they'll be faster than me. I think your reasons are invalid for wanting to upgrade to an i7-7700K, but hey if you want to "waste" money feel free.