i5 2400 upgrade to used i7-4790

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Im planning to swap my GTX 1060 6GB to an used i7-4790 + Asus H81m - K and I have to add a little bit of cash on top of it.

My GTX 1060 6GB is less than 3 months old and I barely used it.
I know there's a matter of fair or unfair trade here but it doesn't really matter.
(But if it doesn't seem like a fair trade for both parties I still would like to know your opinion)

My question is that if its worth the upgrade? Will I get better FPS on CPU intensive games like GTA V?


Current specs are

i5-2400
8GB RAM
GTX 1070 Amp! Extreme


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yea, after I bought the 1060...3 months later I bought a 1070...expecting a rush performance boost in some games.
But GTA V with redux just refuses to stay put at 60fps.

 

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Yup that's exactly how much the additional price he's asking for.
 
Get an i7 3770, the performance will be the same as the i7 4790, and you wont have to change your whole motherboard and reinstall windows. It will be a very nice pairing with the gtx 1070. Im running a gtx 1070+ i7 4790 and it runs like a match made in heaven, so will the i7 3770 :)
 

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woah, hold on. You mean to say I don't need to reformat if i get the i7 3770??

 


Z77 boards are rare and expensive now, and will only get rarer and more expensive as time goes on. Besides, if you change boards, you'll (probably) need to reinstall Windows, which is the whole reason for not getting the 4790 in the first place.




On eBay, the 3770K is $250. The i7 4790 is also $250. The 4790 is faster, but will require a new motherboard. After overclocking, the 3770K may be a hair faster but it will also be more power hungry, and require what's likely to be a very expensive motherboard and an aftermarket cooler.
 

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very good point. I guess if I cannot find cheap z77 by the time I get my next paycheck, I will just have to get the i7-4790 combo with a affordable mobo, that way if I ever decide to upgrade motherboard for extra ram slots it won't be too hard to find outdated boards.
 

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I don't see any plan that involves a motherboard upgrade making any financial sense here. The bump from a 3770 to a 4790 isn't worth the marginal cost (in money or trade value) of a motherboard, nor is the difference between a 3770 and a 3770k worth the marginal cost of a motherboard.
 

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you mean from an i5-2400 to an i7-3370k? In my country that's the only i7-3370 chip I could find that's being sold by a reputable seller.

If I go with the 4790, I won't need an expensive motherboard but I will need a mother board that hold 4 RAM sticks. In that way I don't have to sell my old DDR3 ram and just add additional sticks in the future. Same with the i7-3370k or non-K. I have to upgrade the motherboard sometime in the future especially if it's the K version so I can OC it. Hence, what Ekcy said that outdated boards are going to be expensive.

right? or not...haha I am a bit confused.

 

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The point is that given the three options...

- Upgrade to the 3770k, buy a new motherboard later
- Upgrade to the 4790k and a new motherboard
- Upgrade to the 3770 or a 3770k that you don't overclock, stay with motherboard

...the third one is by far the best because the difference between a 3770/3770k stock and a 3770k overclocked or the difference between a 3770/3770k stock and a 4790k is not worth the cost of a motherboard upgrade.

Your best play, by far, is to simply stick a 3770 in.
 
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thanks for the clear explanation buddy.

I will try to look for a stock 3770 instead of the K version, so that I won't be forced to make use of the overclocking option of the 3770k.

the 3770k being sold to me is at $185. Would you agree that would be a fair price? im not trading in my GPU anymore, im paying cash up front. I could get a non-k version for a little less but its going to be hard to find one here.

No idea about it's overclocking history but knowing intel chips they should be okay regardless of how abused it was. right?
 

DSzymborski

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You're not actually forced to make use fo the overclocking option of the 3770k - I'm a 3770k owner and if I didn't have a motherboard that didn't allow me to overclock, it's still just fine at stick. Depends on what kind of deal you find.

Used CPUs tend to be less problematic than used GPUs, many used ones having been in mining rigs.
 

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The guy selling the 3770k is a gamer but I don't think he's going to admit that he overclocked the crap out of that i7 already.

Btw last question, I see that you also have a 1070 + 3370k, are you experiencing bottlenecks?
 
Yup, 3770k will run at its (higher) stock clocks just fine on a H motherboard. You really don't gain THAT much from overclocking an already high-clocked i7 (especially from that generation - they weren't stellar overclockers anyway compared to Sandy Bridge). Either a 3770 or 3770k and you'll be just fine.
 

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I certainly haven't had any problems (or I'd upgrade). It's still an excellent CPU, even if I wouldn't recommend it in a *new* build (for obvious reasons).