Upgrade to an i7-4790k, buy a new motherboard and an i5-6600k, or wait for kaby lakeÉ
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synphul
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The 4790k would be more affordable and likely the best option. Easier than getting a new cpu, mobo and ram and reinstalling windows in my opinion. I have a feeling it would last a few more years easily depending how often you like to upgrade. By the time it's significantly out performed I'm thinking cannonlake or whatever comes next will be out and skip the 1151 socket altogether.
photonboy
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As said, you'd have to add a lot for motherboard, RAM, OS as well as REINSTALLING everything.
Most games will probably have less than 10% benefit to a much faster CPU. Some games, like FALLOUT 4 (old engine at core) are really CPU limited->
http://www.gamersnexus.net/game-bench/2182-fallout-4-cpu-benchmark-huge-performance-difference
Eyeballing the 1440p graph suggests you'd go to about 83FPS instead of about 60FPS (though it will help with dips too because you'd likely lock this particular game to 60FPS).
DX12?
There was some indication that an i5-4460 would be plenty, however it's starting to look like some future games will still take whatever CPU they can get. So the i7-4790K is likely to justify itself over the next few years.
Quick spec diff:
i5-4460-> 3.4GHz Max Turbo (no HT)
i7-4790K-> 4.4GHz Max Turbo (HT)
I'll check, but I'd estimate up to as high as 75% more performance POTENTIAL, though in many games it will gain you little.
*Just FYI, but even when a game appears to be 60FPS according to FRAPS or similar tool, it can in fact be much lower and the better CPU may help. It has to do with these apps recording the FRAME long before it's actually drawn (when requested, after that you have the API like DX, driver, and drawing on GPU etc).
A CPU being too slow is one reason why a game which should be stable, and SHOWS as stable is NOT stable. Also why they use FRAME TIME analysis now and not just FRAME RATE.
PASSMARK isn't a measure of game performance per say, but it's useful to compare SINGLE and TOTAL potential performance.
i5-4460 https://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu.php?cpu=intel+core+i5-4460+%40+3.20ghz&id=2230
i7-4790K https://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu.php?cpu=Intel+Core+i7-4790K+%40+4.00GHz
The roughly 30% faster per core is the main advantage you have for CPU-bottlenecked games currently.
69% is the how much more processing that i7 has, so my guess of 75% is pretty close. PASSMARK isn't perfect either.
As said, you'd have to add a lot for motherboard, RAM, OS as well as REINSTALLING everything.
Most games will probably have less than 10% benefit to a much faster CPU. Some games, like FALLOUT 4 (old engine at core) are really CPU limited->
http://www.gamersnexus.net/game-bench/2182-fallout-4-cpu-benchmark-huge-performance-difference
Eyeballing the 1440p graph suggests you'd go to about 83FPS instead of about 60FPS (though it will help with dips too because you'd likely lock this particular game to 60FPS).
DX12?
There was some indication that an i5-4460 would be plenty, however it's starting to look like some future games will still take whatever CPU they can get. So the i7-4790K is likely to justify itself over the next few years.
Quick spec diff:
i5-4460-> 3.4GHz Max Turbo (no HT)
i7-4790K-> 4.4GHz Max Turbo (HT)
I'll check, but I'd estimate up to as high as 75% more performance POTENTIAL, though in many games it will gain you little.
*Just FYI, but even when a game appears to be 60FPS according to FRAPS or similar tool, it can in fact be much lower and the better CPU may help. It has to do with these apps recording the FRAME long before it's actually drawn (when requested, after that you have the API like DX, driver, and drawing on GPU etc).
A CPU being too slow is one reason why a game which should be stable, and SHOWS as stable is NOT stable. Also why they use FRAME TIME analysis now and not just FRAME RATE.
PASSMARK isn't a measure of game performance per say, but it's useful to compare SINGLE and TOTAL potential performance.
i5-4460 https://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu.php?cpu=intel+core+i5-4460+%40+3.20ghz&id=2230
i7-4790K https://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu.php?cpu=Intel+Core+i7-4790K+%40+4.00GHz
The roughly 30% faster per core is the main advantage you have for CPU-bottlenecked games currently.
69% is the how much more processing that i7 has, so my guess of 75% is pretty close. PASSMARK isn't perfect either.
photonboy
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For MOST games, though we are definitely seeing a shift towards the i7 in desktop starting to matter in a couple games, and it's going to matter in the future.
He already bought a cheaper CPU and decided to upgrade. He has a REALLY EXPENSIVE graphics card, so I wouldn't cheap out on this one too.
If we assume the same overclock he can gain up to about 40% potential though most games it will be nothing (i7-4790K vs i5-4690K). In some it may gain him over 20%.
With a weaker GPU I would agree with the i5-4690K. In the end it's up to him.
(It also helps a bit with converting video)
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