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2 minutes ago, herman mcpootis said:

you'll either have to refuse delivery or return it after arrival as said, then you can go ebay and get a haswell i7/xeon. also, did you just get the 7700k or with the mobo and ram(just to make sure)?

I got the 7700k with mobo and ram

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11 minutes ago, ripper101 said:

I got the 7700k with mobo and ram

return everything.

get a 4790 or 4770, keep your mobo and RAM, and enjoy.

 

if you're already getting a new mobo+CPU+RAM, why not Ryzen?

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Just now, ripper101 said:

Because I only game

Ryzen is IMO better for gaming too, especially if you get a 1600, since you can spend extra money on a GPU, and minimum framerates (what matter most) are higher.

 

but anyway, you should just get a 4790 and call it a day.

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In your case I would go either with

Xeon E3 1231 V3

If you don't want to OC and you are fine with lower clock speed.

 

or

 

i7 4790k

If you want to OC. But even if you can't OC it makes sense over the 4770k because of quite a higher base clock.

 

Any of these should be quite"cheap" and good upgrade considering that you would just swap CPU and you don't need to upgrade your motherboard and RAM by going with Ryzen or KabyLake.

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8 hours ago, RadiatingLight said:

Ryzen is IMO better for gaming too, especially if you get a 1600, since you can spend extra money on a GPU, and minimum framerates (what matter most) are higher.

 

but anyway, you should just get a 4790 and call it a day.

I found that I was going to be using more applications benifitted by single core performance so that's why I went with the i7

 

Would upgrading to at r5 1600x be a better upgrade?

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8 hours ago, nerdslayer1 said:

it will be up to you, your setup is a bottleneck but it should do just fine also why not buy an i7 4790? 

 

8 hours ago, herman mcpootis said:

since you have an i5 4440 now, instead of getting a 7700k, cancel the order and get a used i7 47xx or e3 1231 v3 instead, cheaper and performance isn't much behind. also you don't have to get a new mobo and ram(unless you're reusing ddr3) which makes it even cheaper.

 

8 hours ago, DocSwag said:

All you need to do is update bios and it will work with an i7 4790

If I get a used 4790k off eBay what price should I look for ($U.S.) for one used? Has eBay become pretty good at ruling out any scams?

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2 hours ago, ripper101 said:

 

 

If I get a used 4790k off eBay what price should I look for ($U.S.) for one used? Has eBay become pretty good at ruling out any scams?

If you're looking at used it should be <$250

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1 minute ago, ripper101 said:

So if I update my BIOS an i7 would for sure work? Cause I don't really know how to update my BIOS. Even after finding my motherboard on their site I don't know what to download 

Go to the MOBOs manufacturer  websites to download the latest bios.

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5 minutes ago, ripper101 said:

So if I update my BIOS an i7 would for sure work? Cause I don't really know how to update my BIOS. Even after finding my motherboard on their site I don't know what to download 

 

OP https://www.msi.com/Motherboard/support/B85M-E45.html#down-bios

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12 hours ago, ripper101 said:

Because I only game

It's likely that you wouldn't notice a difference between a hexacore R5 and the 7700K. The frame difference between curret 6c+ Ryzen and the 7700K seems large on paper, but really isn't noticeable.

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3 minutes ago, ripper101 said:

Do you think 290 is okay? I can't really find anything lower that isn't being bidded up

A bit high but it's ok. 6700ks usually go for $300 or so hence why I said 4790k should be less but I guess that's ok.

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