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Would upgrading from a 3350P to a 4690k increase performance?

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July 12, 2014 8:38:29 PM

Like the title asks, would upgrading from a 3350P to a 4690k increase performance? Also take into account that I would overclock the 4690K. I have a GTX 770 and in some games (like modded Skyrim) I really want higher performance. Anyways, will I get a performance increase that's worth the money with the upgrade?

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July 12, 2014 8:41:36 PM

Nope; not worth it. You will gain very little to no performance boost.
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July 12, 2014 8:49:04 PM

ksham said:
Nope; not worth it. You will gain very little to no performance boost.


Well then what WOULD increase performance?
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July 12, 2014 8:56:02 PM

What performance are you getting right now? And what is the rest of your build?
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July 12, 2014 9:01:43 PM

ksham said:
What performance are you getting right now? And what is the rest of your build?


i5 3350p cpu
GTX 770 graphics card
Biostar H61MH motherboard
8 gb ram
750w power supply
ST500LM0000 hybrid drive

In easy to run games (like TF2, Gmod, etc.) I get a pretty solid 60FPS. In GTA IV on Nvidia's "optimal" settings (a bit below highest settings) I only get around 40-50 FPS and in Skyrim with mods I get similar FPS. In Watch Dogs, I get 35-45 FPS.
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July 12, 2014 9:22:54 PM

Not much will give more performance. How much VRAM is your GTX 770? 2GB? How much is your Skyrim using up? I know modded Skyrim can use upwards of 3GB - 4GB VRAM.
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July 12, 2014 9:45:51 PM

ksham said:
Not much will give more performance. How much VRAM is your GTX 770? 2GB? How much is your Skyrim using up? I know modded Skyrim can use upwards of 3GB - 4GB VRAM.


I updated my previous post a bit.

Anyways, I don't know about Skyrim because I don't have my mods and stuff setup currently so I can't test it, I am just going off previous tests. The other games mentioned I have actually tested properly. Anyways, how is it that my $1000 computer can't be upgraded for better performance? I intend to overclock the 4690K to at least 4 or 4.2 ghz, so it will be a 900-1100 mhz increase. Also I only have 2gb of vram.

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July 12, 2014 9:51:31 PM

I didn't say that it can't be upgraded. Your original question was:

YWZMatt said:
Anyways, will I get a performance increase that's worth the money with the upgrade?

The answer is no.

The CPU isn't doing much of the heavy lifting in these games. It's mostly on the GPU. The i5 is not bottlenecking the graphics card that you have. You can upgrade the CPU and overclock and then SLI the GTX 770. That would yield a good performance boost. If Skyrim is using up all the VRAM, then SLI isn't going to help. You will want a card with more VRAM or don't use so many mods.

Watch Dogs is heavily unoptimized. A patch fix is supposed to be out in September. Even a GTX 780 Ti has issues running it on Ultra settings.
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July 12, 2014 10:31:22 PM

ksham said:
I didn't say that it can't be upgraded. Your original question was:

YWZMatt said:
Anyways, will I get a performance increase that's worth the money with the upgrade?

The answer is no.

The CPU isn't doing much of the heavy lifting in these games. It's mostly on the GPU. The i5 is not bottlenecking the graphics card that you have. You can upgrade the CPU and overclock and then SLI the GTX 770. That would yield a good performance boost. If Skyrim is using up all the VRAM, then SLI isn't going to help. You will want a card with more VRAM or don't use so many mods.

Watch Dogs is heavily unoptimized. A patch fix is supposed to be out in September. Even a GTX 780 Ti has issues running it on Ultra settings.


Yeah I did some searching around just to be sure and I guess you're right. I think I'm just a bit crazy about wanting to buy things like that for performance I don't need. This actually all stemmed from my performance being really bad but that was actually just a virus on my PC. Anyways, thanks for the help. Now I guess I'm gonna have like $250 to spend...
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July 12, 2014 10:55:31 PM

Save it up for a future upgrade. Nothing worthwhile now. :) 
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