Upgrading from i5 4460 to 4690k?

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Tiago_3

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Would I notice a significant difference between the two processors? Also, is my motherboard overclock-able? I have an Asrock H81M-VG4

Is it worth the upgrade for the Dolphin emulator. I've been getting lots of micro stutters in that app. That's why I want to upgrade
 
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The Xeons are compatible, but Dolphin does not use more cores, it wants clockspeed. A Xeon i7 would be a side-grade from what you have for Dolphin, the 4690 is clocked higher and would be a small upgrade. An overclocked Pentium G3258 would actually be significantly faster in Dolphin, but slower in just about everything else than your current i5 given that it has only 2 cores.
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You cannot overclock on your board. The 4460 has a 3.2ghz base clock and 3.4ghz turbo. The 4690K (or 4690, if it's cheaper) has a 3.5ghz base clock and 3.9ghz (1-core) turbo. Expect 3.7ghz on 4 cores. So, while turbo'ing, basic math suggests an 8-9% performance improvement. This may fix your microstuttering, but generally speaking less than a 20-30% improvement is imperceptible.

An i7 4790K is another option. It turbos to 4.2ghz with 4 cores, and has extra cache which will help slightly in Dolphin. That comes out to a ~23% improvement in single-threaded performance, and it has hyperthreading which would further help in things like video encoding and compression.
 
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Tiago_3

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Ok, I will probably just go with the i5 4690 then, and see if that fixes the stuttering in emulators and perhaps give me some increase in fps in general.. It is only just slightly cheaper than 4690k in Brazil, but probably worth saving that extra money since 1150 motherboards will probably be already hard to find when my next upgrade comes by.
Thank you for the help
 
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I would say that you could get a socket 1150 type Xeon CPU which gives you 4 cores + hyper-threading for i7 level performance at a closer to i5 level price, but in the case of your dolphin emulator it in no way will make use of the extra threads.

So basically you either need to do a full CPU and motherboard upgrade (and at that point you might as well just get a skylake setup) or just use what you got.
 
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Tiago_3

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A motherboard upgrade right now is out of the question. I don't think the Xeon is compatible with my current motherboard, or is it? Then I could consider it
 
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The Xeons are compatible, but Dolphin does not use more cores, it wants clockspeed. A Xeon i7 would be a side-grade from what you have for Dolphin, the 4690 is clocked higher and would be a small upgrade. An overclocked Pentium G3258 would actually be significantly faster in Dolphin, but slower in just about everything else than your current i5 given that it has only 2 cores.
 
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