So I'm planning in the near-ish future to upgrade my PC to something that is a fair bit faster than my current setup (E5800 with 8Gb RAM, 1TB, GTX 580 - not bottlenecked, used for GPU rendering)
However, I've come to an almost standstill when it comes to the CPU, what would be better? An overclocked i5 4690k or a stock 4770/4770k, because although you can potentially overclock the i5 to be as fast as the i7 series, wouldn't you have to spend more on a cooler, it would run hotter and it would have a greater power usage. So what would you do and what cooler would you get if you're going down the i5 route?
BTW, rest of the setup would be;
ASRock Z87M Extreme4 Micro ATX LGA1150 Motherboard
Corsair XMS3 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory - Already got, with 2 more slots to add more RAM
Samsung 840 EVO 120GB 2.5" Solid State Drive
Seagate Barracuda 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive - Already got
Aerocool DS Cube Black/White Silent Cube MicroATX Mini Tower Case
be quiet! 530W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply - Already got
EVGA GTX 580 - Already got, may change to a Firepro V4900 in a few years (Or whatever is around then)
Thanks in advance
However, I've come to an almost standstill when it comes to the CPU, what would be better? An overclocked i5 4690k or a stock 4770/4770k, because although you can potentially overclock the i5 to be as fast as the i7 series, wouldn't you have to spend more on a cooler, it would run hotter and it would have a greater power usage. So what would you do and what cooler would you get if you're going down the i5 route?
BTW, rest of the setup would be;
ASRock Z87M Extreme4 Micro ATX LGA1150 Motherboard
Corsair XMS3 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory - Already got, with 2 more slots to add more RAM
Samsung 840 EVO 120GB 2.5" Solid State Drive
Seagate Barracuda 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive - Already got
Aerocool DS Cube Black/White Silent Cube MicroATX Mini Tower Case
be quiet! 530W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply - Already got
EVGA GTX 580 - Already got, may change to a Firepro V4900 in a few years (Or whatever is around then)
Thanks in advance
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