CPU Upgrade

[lexidobe]

1 minute ago, BestSpeling said:

I have an intel Pentium g3258 @4.2 GHz

Do you have a Z series chipset?

[BestSpeling]

24 minutes ago, lexidobe said:

Ok, what chipset do you have? CPU do you have?

CPU: Intel Pentium G3258 @4.2 GHz

GPU: MSI GTX 970 Gaming

Motherboard: Gigabyte Z97MX- GAMING 5 LGA 1150

RAM: 8 GB

PSU: Corsair CX600

Monitor: BenQ 24-Inch Gaming Monitor - LED 1080p HD Monitor - 1ms- RL2455HM)

Storage: Samsung SSD 850 EVO 500GB

 

I have a LGA 1150 chipset

[lexidobe]

Just now, BestSpeling said:

CPU: Intel Pentium G3258 @4.2 GHz

GPU: MSI GTX 970 Gaming

Motherboard: Gigabyte Z97MX- GAMING 5 LGA 1150

RAM: 8 GB

PSU: Corsair CX600

Monitor: BenQ 24-Inch Gaming Monitor - LED 1080p HD Monitor - 1ms- RL2455HM)

Storage: Samsung SSD 850 EVO 500GB

 

I have a LGA 1150 chipset

Ok. If it were my system, I would watch Ebay and Craigslist for a low priced Core i7 4790K and jump on it when you find one. You won't regret the upgrade. I would also upgrade to 16GB of RAM, but wait on a GPU upgrade at least until AMD releases Vega, even if you plan to go Nvidia, since competition will probably drop the price of Nvidia cards. Like I said, I used to have a 4790K and it really was an excellent CPU. When I overclocked it to 5 GHZ, it wasn't far behind the performance of my i7 6800K, which has 2 more cores, so it's still a great CPU by today's standards.If you need anything else, feel free to ask.

[BestSpeling]

4 minutes ago, lexidobe said:

Ok. If it were my system, I would watch Ebay and Craigslist for a low priced Core i7 4790K and jump on it when you find one. You won't regret the upgrade. I would also upgrade to 16GB of RAM, but wait on a GPU upgrade at least until AMD releases Vega, even if you plan to go Nvidia, since competition will probably drop the price of Nvidia cards. Like I said, I used to have a 4790K and it really was an excellent CPU. When I overclocked it to 5 GHZ, it wasn't far behind the performance of my i7 6800K, which has 2 more cores, so it's still a great CPU by today's standards.If you need anything else, feel free to ask.

How about the  i7-4790S?

[lexidobe]

16 hours ago, BestSpeling said:

How about the  i7-4790S?

It's basically a much more power efficient i7 4790 that runs cooler, but you can not overclock it and it does not perform quite as well as the 4790, but if it is significantly cheaper than the 4790K, go for it. Here is the Intel spec page for it: http://ark.intel.com/products/80808/Intel-Core-i7-4790S-Processor-8M-Cache-up-to-4_00-GHz