Upgrading my CPU, will these components work together?
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For a time. Pairing a powerful i7 and a power-hungry GPU with a budget PSU that's meant for office work and light-to-moderate gaming is just asking for trouble. With those parts, there's little excuse to not buying a tier one or two PSU.
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You are pairing an unlocked cpu with a board that will lock it. While this won't hurt you if you never have plans to OC, it is a good use of s cheaper board with a powerful and fast cpu. Your choice of psu isn't great, there are better, currently you can get xfx 550w psu for less than $30 on newegg, but that sale won't last long.
A r9 280x especially the toxic/VaporX lines really shouldn't be used on a 500w psu, 550w minimum would be better, cx600 if you are determined to stick with Corsair.
A r9 280x especially the toxic/VaporX lines really shouldn't be used on a 500w psu, 550w minimum would be better, cx600 if you are determined to stick with Corsair.
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I don't think it will really help you out in the long run. It's not as if there are going to be future, better, CPUs for this socket and even in that circumstance, I'd advocate waiting for that better one. The differences between the two CPUs -- especially in gaming -- is fairly marginal. When the day comes that the 3570k is obsolete for gaming, the 4790k will be *almost* obsolete.
In your case, I'd just buy a good PSU and keep the cash for now.
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Average differences between a 3570k and a 4690k at same clocks is roughly 5-10%. In game that equates to 0 fps if using a gpu that puts you over 60fps at 1080p on a 60Hz monitor. At worst you are looking at @3-5fps. That's negligible to the point where if you had 2x systems side by side playing the exact same frames at the same time on 2x monitors, you couldn't possibly see the difference.
The only difference you will find between i5 and i7 is on some few games like bf4 multi-player, those will take full advantage of multiple cores, using upto cpu maximum, so a 8 thread cpu is a bonus. Other than that, most games are single thread optimized, and will only use 1-3 cores generally, with any rollover on the 4th.
Having a 3570k isn't gonna hurt at all, and you are in better shape than most running fx Cpus.
The only difference you will find between i5 and i7 is on some few games like bf4 multi-player, those will take full advantage of multiple cores, using upto cpu maximum, so a 8 thread cpu is a bonus. Other than that, most games are single thread optimized, and will only use 1-3 cores generally, with any rollover on the 4th.
Having a 3570k isn't gonna hurt at all, and you are in better shape than most running fx Cpus.
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