i5 4690k VS i7 4790k

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Raihan Ahmed

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Building a PC soon and get the urge to go for the i7 even though i know it truly wont make a difference in gaming.
So i ask would it make differences in Applications, software in windows 8.1? would it help with rendering,opening software and windows 8.1 boot time?
or anything else you can think off?
And why does it beat the i5 in certain (non gaming) benchmark such as the physics.
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geofelt
If the extra $100 for a 4790K is not that important to you, go ahead and buy the 4790K. You will get a better binned chip that runs at 4.0-4.4 at stock and will probably oc higher.
If you don't, you will always wonder if you should have.
For rendering, it is money well spent.
OTOH If budget is a big issue, that $100 might be better spent on a graphics card for gaming or a ssd.

I do not boot often. I use sleep to ram(S3). sleep and wake is a matter of a couple of seconds.

I will never again build without a ssd for the "C" drive. It makes everything you do much quicker.
120gb is minimum, it will hold the os and a handful of games. If you can go 240gb, you may never need a hard drive.
I don't.
I would defer on the hard drive...
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nikoli707

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highly threaded apps it will for sure give you a boost. what is your budget? if you can afford the i7, do it. but if your skimping on a graphics card to buy a high tier cpu, there is no point. further more, a basic entry level i5 and a higher tier graphics card will still be better than a one step below tier gpu and an unlocked i5. as far as rendering, 'good' apps will support radeon/geforce drivers to offload compute to the gpu, but you might be paying a large amount for these apps.
 
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You will definitely see a difference with rendering; however, the general speed of opening apps and boot time would be more affected by an upgrade to a SSD for main boot drive as well as main application installs. As nikoli said, if you have the money go for it, otherwise get a 4690k and a more expensive GPU.

It beats the i5 in certain tasks because of its hyperthreading ability. There are certain tasks that can be spread across multiple threads to make the processes happen more quickly instead of bogging down on core. Think of it as two people working on a project instead of one.
 
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geofelt

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If the extra $100 for a 4790K is not that important to you, go ahead and buy the 4790K. You will get a better binned chip that runs at 4.0-4.4 at stock and will probably oc higher.
If you don't, you will always wonder if you should have.
For rendering, it is money well spent.
OTOH If budget is a big issue, that $100 might be better spent on a graphics card for gaming or a ssd.

I do not boot often. I use sleep to ram(S3). sleep and wake is a matter of a couple of seconds.

I will never again build without a ssd for the "C" drive. It makes everything you do much quicker.
120gb is minimum, it will hold the os and a handful of games. If you can go 240gb, you may never need a hard drive.
I don't.
I would defer on the hard drive unless you need to store large files such as video's.
It is easy to add a hard drive later.
Samsung EVO is a good choice
 
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zxt827

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I7 will not make a big diffrence in gaming. That being said, if you do a lot of rendering, get the i7. The main difference is the hyper threading. it helps on rendering because the cpu utilize all threads (8 threads) thus reduce the time to get the job done. Gaming does not need more than 4 cores most of the time, this is why you don't need an i7 if its just for gaming.
GL with your build
 
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