Upgrading from i7 4790k. Recommendations

[shortfuse001]

Hi all,

 

I am looking at upgrading my current mobo and cpu. I currently have an asus maximus 6 formula mobo and an i7 4790k cpu. 

I have a budget of £1000 give or take for both.

 

 

Thanks in advance

[TinyBolts]

2 minutes ago, shortfuse001 said:

Hi all,

 

I am looking at upgrading my current mobo and cpu. I currently have an asus maximus 6 formula mobo and an i7 4790k cpu. 

I have a budget of £1000 give or take for both.

 

 

Thanks in advance

amd or intel?

[shortfuse001]

Just now, TinyBolts said:

amd or intel?

I'm happy to consider both. 

[TinyBolts]

gaming or what? Videos?

[TinyBolts]

1 minute ago, TinyBolts said:

gaming or what? Videos?

gaming would be intel and little less gaming and more of the other stuff with amd.

[RadiatingLight]

Why are you upgrading?

the 4790K is still a beast.

[TinyBolts]

 

2 minutes ago, RadiatingLight said:

Why are you upgrading?

the 4790K is still a beast.

it is good, idk why he wants to upgrade either, but the i9 stuff and threadripper came out, so maybe he wants that.

[TinyBolts]

Just now, TinyBolts said:

 

it is good, idk why he wants to upgrade either, but the i9 stuff and threadripper came out, so maybe he wants that.

oh crap I was writing, just saw that lel 

[Bananasplit_00]

first off, the I7 4790K is still an amazing CPU for games, so unless you need cores just get more GPU power. secondly wait like 20h for Intel to announce Coffee Lake lol

[TinyBolts]

9 minutes ago, shortfuse001 said:

I'm happy to consider both. 

you could get the best ryzen(not threadripper), Ryzen 7 1800x and an Asrock x370 Professional Gaming, would work very good, gaming and productivity, put other money in cooler or smth other that will be useful.

[Drak3]

If you already have the 4790K, there is little reason to want to move to the 6700K or 7700K, or anything Ryzen with 6 cores or less (an OC will give the 4790K the advantage in almost every task).

That said, the 8700K wouldn't be a bad upgrade when that comes out, as it'll have 6C/12T and overclock similarly to what you already have. You've also got X99's 5930K if you need/want 6 cores and 40 PCIe lanes, X299's 7800X if you need/want 6 cores and AVX512 (important mostly for content creation, scientific analysis, and number crunching).

 

I wouldn't recommend Threadripper in any capacity, unless you just want the PCIe lanes. I wouldn't recommend Ryzen 7 unless you're streaming games.

[TinyBolts]

1 minute ago, Bananasplit_00 said:

first off, the I7 4790K is still an amazing CPU for games, so unless you need cores just get more GPU power. secondly wait like 20h for Intel to announce Coffee Lake lol

ye, coffee lake says to be 11% faster

[Bananasplit_00]

1 minute ago, TinyBolts said:

ye, coffee lake says to be 11% faster

mainly more cores at the same clocks for your money so just straight up better value then Kabylake

[TinyBolts]

Just now, Bananasplit_00 said:

mainly more cores at the same clocks for your money so just straight up better value then Kabylake

hopefully it will be good, because I'm thinking for building a pc too, might use that, hopefully it doesn't go like the vega launch, although the coffee lake isn't hyped that much.

[Not_Sean]

I'm about to upgrade my i5-4690k to the i7-4790K its that good of a cpu that no realy point in me doing a full system upgrade the price:performance just isn't there. 

[Princess Luna]

i7 8700k even so the i7 4790k is no sloth.

[lsstefan]

37 minutes ago, Not_Sean said:

I'm about to upgrade my i5-4690k to the i7-4790K its that good of a cpu that no realy point in me doing a full system upgrade the price:performance just isn't there. 

But the 4690k and 4790k are still very high priced. I wanted to upgrade my g3258 to a 4690k, but it was more expensive than the 7600k.... I sold my whole right and bought a new one, let's call it last gen, with like 150E more.

No doubt, very good CPUs, the 4790k should last you long.

[Not_Sean]

1 hour ago, lsstefan said:

But the 4690k and 4790k are still very high priced. I wanted to upgrade my g3258 to a 4690k, but it was more expensive than the 7600k.... I sold my whole right and bought a new one, let's call it last gen, with like 150E more.

No doubt, very good CPUs, the 4790k should last you long.

I'll have to have a look at prices a bit closer, but its more so going from a really nice MSI motherboard and high spec DDR3 ram that upgrading I won't be able to grab the same quality of stuff, where as selling the i5 and buying just a Tray i7 I can prob get it for an ok price for a very solid upgrade. 

[JoostinOnline]

3 hours ago, TinyBolts said:

ye, coffee lake says to be 11% faster

As Luke said in the latest WAN show, "That is a whole 1% faster than I expected."

 

I upgraded to a 4790K a few months ago.  It's an awesome CPU.  New alternatives are barely better, especially if you're looking at gaming.  Ryzen beats it in content creation, but it also beats the 7700K.  In gaming, they're practically identical.

 

You might want to mute the sound on this video, as they always use loud annoying music for them, but this should give you an idea of performance differences:

 

[gbergeron]

10 hours ago, shortfuse001 said:

Hi all,

 

I am looking at upgrading my current mobo and cpu. I currently have an asus maximus 6 formula mobo and an i7 4790k cpu. 

I have a budget of £1000 give or take for both.

 

 

Thanks in advance

4790k still good enough for a 1080 ti so... keep it  

[lsstefan]

8 hours ago, Not_Sean said:

I'll have to have a look at prices a bit closer, but its more so going from a really nice MSI motherboard and high spec DDR3 ram that upgrading I won't be able to grab the same quality of stuff, where as selling the i5 and buying just a Tray i7 I can prob get it for an ok price for a very solid upgrade. 

You do have a valid point there.

Your 4690k will sell much higher than my G3258, so maybe you won't feel the difference that much. For me it was way too much difference so I just sold everything and bought the Kaby. I did want to hit 5 GHz, so that played a huge role in this

[Not_Sean]

11 hours ago, lsstefan said:

You do have a valid point there.

Your 4690k will sell much higher than my G3258, so maybe you won't feel the difference that much. For me it was way too much difference so I just sold everything and bought the Kaby. I did want to hit 5 GHz, so that played a huge role in this

Yeah man its the constant debate, like looks like I might be moving countries again for work and now with even newer stuff do I just sell Lapis and Redstone (See builds Below) or just pay a smaller price and ship them like I did with Redstone last time I moved, yeah they older but they paid for and are pretty well spec'd even if a bit old. 

 

Its always going to be that debate. 

[SlaughterSmurf]

On 20/08/2017 at 0:49 PM, shortfuse001 said:

Hi all,

 

I am looking at upgrading my current mobo and cpu. I currently have an asus maximus 6 formula mobo and an i7 4790k cpu. 

I have a budget of £1000 give or take for both.

 

 

Thanks in advance

For gaming: don't upgrade there's no point. Even SLI 1080ti won't be bottlenecked enough by a 4790k to justify going for the only upgrade possible: the 7700k.

For productivity: Ryzen 7 1700, or any of the threadripper stuff would be a good choice.