4790K Worth The Extra Money Over A 4690K?

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XtremeAero426

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I'm upgrading from AMD to Intel soon and I was wondering whether a 4790K is really worth the extra money over a 4690K.

4790K Advantages:
- 2MB More L3 Cache
- Hyper Threading
- 0.5GHz Clock Speed Difference

Other Questions:
- Can I OC higher with a 4790K or does the 4790K just come with a better stock cooler to compensate for the higher clock speed?

 
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Depends on what you do with your pc. If you do heavy video/image editing then yes get an i7 4790k is worth it to reduce time to make content if it is for work.
Causal editing you can live with the extra time with i5 4690k. i7 4790k is not necessary.
For gaming purposes, i5 4690k is enough. Not many games benefit the hyper threading yet.

If you want to overclock, you will need an aftermarket cpu cooler. The stock cooler is fine at stock speed for the cpu.
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Depends on what you do with your pc. If you do heavy video/image editing then yes get an i7 4790k is worth it to reduce time to make content if it is for work.
Causal editing you can live with the extra time with i5 4690k. i7 4790k is not necessary.
For gaming purposes, i5 4690k is enough. Not many games benefit the hyper threading yet.

If you want to overclock, you will need an aftermarket cpu cooler. The stock cooler is fine at stock speed for the cpu.
 
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I have an aftermark cooler (the Cooler Master V8 GTS). Will I be able to OC significantly higher with a 4790K over a 4690K?
 
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You will overclock fine with either cpu, Your cpu cooler is decent enough.
 
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Ok thanks, I'll be going with the 4690K. Thanks for your help!
 
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I gotta thoroughly disagree with the stock cooler. It's garbage. I only used it to boot into bios and it hit 64c. It doesn't hit that playing bf4 on ultra for hours with the noctua NH-D15. When I delid it... ooh watch out.

But as far as OC speed go, everything I've seen shows the 4690k maxing at 4.8 and the 4790k also at 4.8, but 4.9 w/super high V and not too stable at that. I gotta say tho, I'm finding HT to be kinda beneficial, even now. I wasn't going for the 4790k, but a black friday massive cost cut I strategized/lucked my way into made the choice for me.
 
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I totally forgot i7s benefit from core unparking, and alot of i5s don't. I don't know what effect unparking has on the 4690k but I do know it's freaking awesome for the 4790k. I got a 20+fps bump in bf4 ultra 1080p, and windows boots so much faster, like in a few seconds. I'll time it and edit this later.
 
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