Would you get a new CPU if you were in my position?

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eetwast

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Hi,
I have had my gaming pc for a few years and have recently replaced the old 780 card with a new EVGA gtx 1080 ftw edition. Along with this I have built a custom waterloop and im just waiting for EK to release the GPU cooling block to finish that up. My question is, would you upgrade from a 4770k and if so what processor would you go for? If you were to upgrade As a side note my motherboard has been having issues with the system clock and that has been kind of a pain.

specs are...
CPU =4770k
GPU =evga gtx 1080 ftw edition
RAM=2x8gb DDR3 corsair Dominator
MOBO = ASUS ROG HERO VI
CASE = Phanteks Evolv PH-ES515E
HDD = samsung 840 EVO 500g SSD ( I plan to upgrade to a muskin 1tb reactor drive soon).

Thanks in advance!
 
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The gap isn't even that much. The i7-4770k isn't the best overclocker, but if you have it sitting above 4.0, preferably closer to 4.4Ghz. Then it is basically an i7-4790k. The i7-6700k clocks a little lower by default and can't quite reach as high. When it comes to games they trade position depending on the exact title, some minor architecture improvements give the Skylake a small advantage, but the raw x86 performance is about the same.

Sad to hear about Hero VI letting you down. I have pretty much the same build. Only good reason to bump up to Z97 is the I/O options. Same with Skylake. I am going to try and stretch it for Cannon Lake, but if there is a compelling 200 series motherboard I may jump on that.
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I would just replace the motherboard. Intel hasn't had any big increases in performance, and there would be the added cost of getting DDR4 as well to move completely to the newest platform. As I recall:

Skylake was +5-10% performance over Broadwell
Broadwell was +5-10% over Haswell

When you look at the actual numbers, it just doesn't make sense to move from Haswell to Skylake, unless it's a new build.
 
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Thanks for the response,
This PC is used almost exclusively for gaming and streaming movies.

 
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Thank you for responding,
Do you think the added benefit of the DDR4+ the small increase in CPU performace would be worth such a steep price point?
 
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Not at this time, in my opinion the increase in performance just isn't worth the cost..
The next line of processors will be out later this year, Kaby Lake and it's a refresh of Skylake. It's the same thing Intel did with Haswell and the Devils Canyon refresh. Plus AMD's Zen CPU's should be released later this year or early next year and it will be interesting to see what performance they have.

 
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The gap isn't even that much. The i7-4770k isn't the best overclocker, but if you have it sitting above 4.0, preferably closer to 4.4Ghz. Then it is basically an i7-4790k. The i7-6700k clocks a little lower by default and can't quite reach as high. When it comes to games they trade position depending on the exact title, some minor architecture improvements give the Skylake a small advantage, but the raw x86 performance is about the same.

Sad to hear about Hero VI letting you down. I have pretty much the same build. Only good reason to bump up to Z97 is the I/O options. Same with Skylake. I am going to try and stretch it for Cannon Lake, but if there is a compelling 200 series motherboard I may jump on that.
 
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Thanks for the input guys. I guess i'll just wait for some better CPUs to come out. It just feels so weird to me to mix old and new parts haha. Usually I just do a fresh build but its just not worth the money atm! Take care!
 
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