Is i7-4790k worth $40 vs i7-4790 ?

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Hello.
I'm looking to buy one of these processors for my build: i7-4790k or i7-4790 non-K, because I'm not sure if I should overclock it. I will use that build for minimum 2-3 years with my GTX 770. Also, if I decide to buy non-K model, I see 4770K in very similar price point.
What do you think ?
 
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I would either take the i7 4790k with a z97 board (4.4ghz turbo, overclockable to ~4.7ghz) or a xeon e3-1231v3 (3.9ghz turbo, locked) with a h87/h97 board. Could also go cheaper with a h81 board if you don't mind features like usb 3, dual graphic card support or sata express.
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Yes, sometimes I'm using video editing, photoshop. Also, I would use multitasking while doing these tasks. I guess i7 would be a benefit, and also I'm planning to use it for long time(about ~3years, possibly more)
 
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Then get a k model, you will make it last a year or so longer than the locked version by overclocking it in the future
 
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If you do video editing,then the i7 is a great option.It's only advantage over the i5 is hyperthreading which is very useful when video editing,which you do, :)
Get whichever i7 you want.A lot of people that do video editing prefer the 4770K because it can be OC'd.
 
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I would either take the i7 4790k with a z97 board (4.4ghz turbo, overclockable to ~4.7ghz) or a xeon e3-1231v3 (3.9ghz turbo, locked) with a h87/h97 board. Could also go cheaper with a h81 board if you don't mind features like usb 3, dual graphic card support or sata express.
 
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Personally, I do not think overclocking yields enough extra useful life to be worth the trouble: overclocking properly adds ~$150 to the total system cost for 10-15% extra performance over the Xeon route. By the time your CPU starts feeling sluggish at stock clock, an extra 10% performance will be unlikely to help much and at the rate performance has been improving over the last couple of years, it is unlikely you will have much worth upgrading to either other than LGA2011-3.
 
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Thank you for your answers, all of it helped me to understand these things better.

I decided to take non-K model and buy SSD for these $40, plus extra $30. What do you think ?
P.S right now I can get non-K model for $55 cheaper price.

 
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If you are planning on getting into editing and other high rendering tasks, then it would be great if you could spend the extra bucks and get the i7-4790k. The extra performance that it will give you, will worth the extra you pay for it. If you will just be gaming then you can go for the i7-4790-- at that time you would be really wasting money as there would be no increased performance in gaming between a k version and non k version as gaming takes far less processing power than editing.
 
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And, what about i7-4820k if I can get it for exactly same price as i7-4790 ? In one of my local shop I see a sale, and i7-4820k costs only ~$10 more than i7-4790.
 
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There are two problems with that:
1- the i7-4820k is an Ivy Bridge-E chip; not a Haswell
2- it is an LGA2011 chip, which means you would need a more expensive X79-based board
 
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