4690K to 4790K upgrade worth it?

LexusLFA

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So last year i foolishly bought the 4690k in a rush to get my PC completed..and it's served me well over the course of the year. However, when streaming games, using skype (with video) and possibly a couple of tabs open in a web browser the 4690k seems to get stumped. Assassins creed unity will occasionally drop to 13fps, and barring the poor optimization, all cores are at 100%, This also applies to GTA5 where usually all cores are at 100% causing some form of stutter. I also like to emulate some games and stream them whilst still using skype, again causing some stutter and all cores to be somewhere near 100%. I now wonder if the upgrade will be worth it? In my head i rationalize that instantaneous performance will be better and some games seem to finally be using more than four threads which i may benefit from. However i am afraid the update may be a bit late and i'm wondering if i should just wait a year or two and upgrade to ddr4 and a newer processor. I do not want to purchase the 4790k and then feel as if it has been outdated too soon. Yet i also feel as if the waiting game on new technology is essentially endless so i should just purchase what works for now.
Opinions are welcomed!
 
AC Unity and Batman Arkham Knight are a sh*t optimized PC ported games. If you have fps drops, it is not the fault of your PC. You should not use AC Unity and Batman Arkham Knight as reference to see if you rig needs an upgrade.
GTA V is a decent optimized ported game, yes, you will see benefits on GTA V if you move to a processor with more threads but not by far.
The stutters should be most likely due to other issues.
If you do not do video/photo editing, 3d-model rendering, etc. intensively, you do not really need an i7 4790k.

If you ask me, I do not think than an upgrade from i5 4690k to i7 4790k will bring much and that it will justify the extra cost. I would rather keep the rig for the next years until your rig is i5 4690k is definitely a bottleneck, which is not going to happen anytime soon.

 

crisan_tiberiu

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IMHO, a CPU should not reach 100% usage in games in any scenario, not even on a Sandy Bridge 2500k. For example, the latest Starcraft 2 patch made the game menu very laggy with 100% CPU usages in diferent menu tabs. In these cases i can hardly alt+tab. This si not my i5 3470 fault but it is Blizzards fault. Same case ase yours imho.