Can I exchange my 4470K for a 4790K keeping my motherboard?

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Hello. My motherboard is an Asus Z87 Deluxe 1150 Intel Z87 : https://www.asus.com/Motherboards/Z87DELUXE/specifications/

I currently use with that motherboard a 4770K cpu. I thought I was going to build a new PC this year but seeing that there's nothing exciting I rather wait for next year and do a little "upgrade" in my PC placing a 4790K and overclock it. I'll be using it with my two GTX 1080 in SLI.

My question is: With said motherboard can I just replace without hardware issues the current 4770K with a 4790K? Thank you!
 
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a new cpu of a 4790k or 6700k is not worth it for any difference you want a haswell-E or broadwell-E cpu and...
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all you need do is make sure you update the bios and check asus web page under cpu see if it been tested to work.
on changing the cpu there not going to be much of a change going from that i7 to the other one. your better off holding onto your funds waiting for the pc to crap out and then buy the newest intel i7 and mb.
 
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I really don't think that is much of an upgrade, they are the same cpu they perform the same except the 4790k might overclock a bit better. To answer your question no you shouldn't have any issue, your motherboard may require a bios update for devils canyon cpu's you need bios rev. 2003 or newer it should say in your bios somewhere what revision you have.
 
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In general the Devil's Canyons main improvement was a better TIM between the silicon and the heatspreader, which keeps temperatures lower. Some of the i7-4770k struggled to break 4.1Ghz or so. Other then that, they were binned a little better and can usually hit 4.6Ghz or so without much trouble, but the stock settings are pretty good on the i7-4790k, not a huge gain to get an extra 100 or 200Mhz out of it.

My i7-4770k can manage 4.5Ghz @ 1.35 or so, but it really gets warm doing it. But at 1.3 volts it sits completely stable at 4.3Ghz with a peak of 71C under water.
 
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I have considered it as I could afford it if I screwed up, but it gets the job done at its current speed.

I would rather invest in Skylake or Kabylake, but I was really hoping for the generation after that. I don't like the dual memory controllers on the CPU, seems like a waste of space, not that the HD graphics isn't a bigger waste for people with GPUs.

 
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Thank you all for the suggestions. I'm currently running 2 GTX 980ti and will upgrade to 2 GTX 1080s. From all I've read even going with a new MB and the 6700K cpu, gaming wise I wouldn't notice any significant changes so I guess I'll keep my cpu and just get a good cpu cooling fan and overclock it and get the two GTX 1080 and that would do until next year. I was eager to change my system these year but from what I've read there is no substantial change with Kaby Lake and if I were to build a Kaby Lake pc this year next year with the new generation of cpus my "new" motherboard will be already outdated!

Thank you again!
 
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a new cpu of a 4790k or 6700k is not worth it for any difference you want a haswell-E or broadwell-E cpu and thats not much help in gaming but on 3d modeling
 
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