Upgrading from Intel 4790K to 7700K

[Holmes2468]

I was wondering if it is worth upgrading to the new Kapby Lake CPU with the new Z270 MB Chipset from the Older Devils Canyon with the Z97 chipset. 

 

I just game (GTA V and Ghost Recon) and browsing the internet. 

 

I was mostly thinking of upgrading due the features that the newer motherboard has. 

[Oshino Shinobu]

In terms of performance, not really. The 4790K is still plenty powerful for what you're doing. As for motherboard features, that's really up to you. Quite a few things on the new Z270 boards can be added, if only partially, through expansion cards. What features specifically are you wanting?

[BethFoster5841]

if you do need to upgrade go with the 6700k there is practically no difference

[manikyath]

when i bought my 4790k i set an expectation for an upgrade path, which pointed either at the 6000 or 7000 series as a replacement, but honestly... the performance boost is disappointing at best, and feature wise.. there's nothing that's really hyped me.

 

this is what buying a new processor, mobo, and ram will grant you in terms of perfiormance boost:

http://cpu.userbenchmark.com/Compare/Intel-Core-i7-7700K-vs-Intel-Core-i7-4790K/3647vs2384

 

dont need to explain how much it is very much not worth the dough

[Enderman]

Not really.

[Damascus]

I'd  ait, even if the i7 8XXX is boring there is a refresh of kaby coming

[ybriK]

It's a side grade not an upgrade. Up to you if you want to pull the trigger.

[IceCold008]

One good thing when it comes to Intel CPU's over the years is that for gaming preformance from each generation is Lousy at best usualy 1% to 10% depending on the game.

This is crap for people wanting better preformance but its GREAT for people which has older CPU, they dont need to update so fast if its gaming your looking at

[Holmes2468]

1 hour ago, Oshino Shinobu said:

In terms of performance, not really. The 4790K is still plenty powerful for what you're doing. As for motherboard features, that's really up to you. Quite a few things on the new Z270 boards can be added, if only partially, through expansion cards. What features specifically are you wanting?

I was thinking of adding a second m.2 500gb card

[Oshino Shinobu]

18 minutes ago, Holmes2468 said:

I was thinking of adding a second m.2 500gb card

If you ask me, it's not worth it. Unless you do very frequent large file transfers, there's not a whole lot of benefit from an M.2 drive (assuming you mean it will be NVMe). A regular SATA SSD will do well for most things. Definitely not worth the $500 or so it would take to upgrade the system. 

[Holmes2468]

The other issue is that I'm Very OCD with uniform. I have an ASUS MB with a AORUS GTX 1080. I was wanting to make it uniform and the Upgrade kits on newegg was within my price range. 

[Zodiark1593]

Tl;dr

 

Unless you're going for Ryzen or X99, don't bother. 

[Holmes2468]

This is what I was looking at.

 

https://m.newegg.com/combo/combodetail?comboid=3314150&combotype=2&itemnumber=N82E16819117726

[Zodiark1593]

4 hours ago, Holmes2468 said:

This is what I was looking at.

 

https://m.newegg.com/combo/combodetail?comboid=3314150&combotype=2&itemnumber=N82E16819117726

Seriously, if you're not going X99 or Ryzen, don't bother upgrading. Kaby Lake is not a good investment at all when you're already on a 4790K. You're paying for a roughly 10% performance boost (if that) for many hundreds of dollars. 

[Holmes2468]

What's the difference of an x99? 

 

I know ryzen is out, IDK if I want to move to a 8 core or not. 

[done12many2]

1 hour ago, Holmes2468 said:

What's the difference of an x99? 

 

I know ryzen is out, IDK if I want to move to a 8 core or not. 

 

Do you overclock?

[App4that]

37 minutes ago, Holmes2468 said:

What's the difference of an x99? 

 

I know ryzen is out, IDK if I want to move to a 8 core or not. 

With Broadwell-E you'll lose a few fps in games but up your productivity. With Ryzen you'll lose 10-20+fps in games but REALLY up your productivity. 

 

So unless you also work using your PC, not a good move. Just stick with the 4790k.

[Holmes2468]

51 minutes ago, done12many2 said:

 

Do you overclock?

No. Not really. I let the asus 5 way do that. 

[App4that]

25 minutes ago, Holmes2468 said:

No. Not really. I let the asus 5 way do that. 

Then no. Stick to the 4790k

[Zodiark1593]

1 hour ago, Holmes2468 said:

What's the difference of an x99? 

 

I know ryzen is out, IDK if I want to move to a 8 core or not. 

If you have no need for more cores, than stick with the 4790K. Upgrading from what you have now to another quad core is simply burning money for close to a side-grade. 

[Holmes2468]

20 hours ago, App4that said:

With Broadwell-E you'll lose a few fps in games but up your productivity. With Ryzen you'll lose 10-20+fps in games but REALLY up your productivity. 

 

So unless you also work using your PC, not a good move. Just stick with the 4790k.

Even with the gaming X99 boards?

[App4that]

10 hours ago, Holmes2468 said:

Even with the gaming X99 boards?

Aw hell yeah. A Broadwell-E CPU will win in a few games, but not enough to offset the cost.