Cpu Upgrade?

[Hanno3]

Hey everyone,

 

I recently upgraded to a GTX 1060 6gb and my old cpu (i5-4440) is in need of an upgrade. Primarily used for gaming/video editing and 3d modeling. I have a budget of around £200, I have looked at buying a i7-4790k, i7-4790T or the i5-4690/(k)46. What would be the wisest upgrade? I have had suggestions from others to wait and buy a ryzen cpu/mobo/ram combo in a few months.

 

Thanks!

Hanno

 

P.s Does the 'T' suffix really affect performance?

[keelsey9]

In my opinion you are better off waiting for ryzen indeed.

From a 4440 to a 4790K is a solid upgrade but its still out of date.

 

[Guest]

An i7 would be a much better upgrade than getting an i5 again. 

T means they are low powered. Performance shouldn't be noticeable, it does have lower clock a bit compared to the non T 4790

[DarkBlade2117]

1 minute ago, keelsey9 said:

In my opinion you are better off waiting for ryzen indeed.

From a 4440 to a 4790K is a solid upgrade but its still out of date.

 

Not worth it when you factor in new Mobo and RAM and possibly a cooler. Get a used 4790 for $200-$220 USD

[rn8686]

4 minutes ago, keelsey9 said:

In my opinion you are better off waiting for ryzen indeed.

From a 4440 to a 4790K is a solid upgrade but its still out of date.

 

Not really, hardly even ~10% between haswell and Kabylake. Defiantly good value, especially when you factor in the cost of upgrading motherboard and ram if OP moves to 1151. 

[Jurrunio]

5 minutes ago, Hanno3 said:

Hey everyone,

 

I recently upgraded to a GTX 1060 6gb and my old cpu (i5-4440) is in need of an upgrade. Primarily used for gaming/video editing and 3d modeling. I have a budget of around £200, I have looked at buying a i7-4790k, i7-4790T or the i5-4690/(k)46. What would be the wisest upgrade? I have had suggestions from others to wait and buy a ryzen cpu/mobo/ram combo in a few months.

 

Thanks!

Hanno

 

P.s Does the 'T' suffix really affect performance?

Get non T cpu. T ones get much lower base clock speed which hurts performance on multi-threaded tasks like editing and rendering.

 

going ryzen will give more performance gains, but that is also more costly. Only consider that if you have a large ($400+) budget

[keelsey9]

4 minutes ago, rn8686 said:

Not really, hardly even ~10% between haswell and Kabylake. Defiantly good value, especially when you factor in the cost of upgrading motherboard and ram if OP moves to 1151. 

Its my opinion because with new gen you get much more then just a better cpu (things like nvme support and ddr4)

[rn8686]

6 minutes ago, keelsey9 said:

Its my opinion because with new gen you get much more then just a better cpu (things like nvme support and ddr4)

DDR4 isnt that much better and Haswell still supports NVME, dont really see what important features you are missing. 

[WereCat]

8 minutes ago, rn8686 said:

DDR4 isnt that much better and Haswell still supports NVME, dont really see what important features you are missing. 

NVME is supported only on Z97 on Haswell.

Regardless, it is not really important for anything outside some workloads.