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I have i intel pentium g3240 paired with a asus LGA1150 B85-g and a msi gtx 960 4gb. i play csgo, batlefield 1, gta 5, and overwatch. should i choose a i5 4690k with ssd or i5 7600 combo with motherboard, cooler, ram and ssd or i5 7600k combo with motherboard, ram and cooler or ryzen 1600x combo with motherboard, ram and cooler?
 
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With your motherboard there is little point in a k cpu. Changing motherboard and RAM is expensive and will give little gain. Id go with an i7 4790 and look for a gpu upgrade too. Some games are now benefitting from an i7 but admittedly only at high fps >100. The i5 with only 4 threads is starting to look a little dated, yes its still a great cpu range 4690/6600/7600 but if I was buying new today Id pick Ryzen or i7 over an i5 as Id expect it to meet needs for longer.
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With your motherboard there is little point in a k cpu. Changing motherboard and RAM is expensive and will give little gain. Id go with an i7 4790 and look for a gpu upgrade too. Some games are now benefitting from an i7 but admittedly only at high fps >100. The i5 with only 4 threads is starting to look a little dated, yes its still a great cpu range 4690/6600/7600 but if I was buying new today Id pick Ryzen or i7 over an i5 as Id expect it to meet needs for longer.
 
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@sizzling: A "K" CPU can still make sense on mainboards that don't allow overclocking, because their default clocks are still higher than those of the non-K models, while usually only having a negligible price difference.

So, in total, if this is for gaming, I'd get the 4690(K) and a SSD, this will should be enough even for the next GPU upgrade and should last a while.
 
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Yeah you are right the k's are higher clocked. I guess I should have said don't worry about overclocking.

As for 4690 I'm not sure, my 4670k OC'd to 4.3Ghz spends most of its time running at very high usage in the games I play and I cap my frame rate at 60fps (not V-Sync). While its ok today I see very little headroom for the future and games are starting to be able to use extra threads.
 
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If we are worrying about games making proper use of more threads already, we should scrap the i5-7XXX variants. They aren't that much more powerful than a 4670/4690(K) to warrant an upgrade yet. The Ryzen 1600X would have much more power when all threads are used, so it may be worth taking a look at.

But tbh, I'd get a Haswell i5 now, and upgrade to the successor to Coffee Lake (Intel) or the 2nd or 3rd generation of Zen (AMD) when they come out. I am pretty confident that the Haswell i5's will still be viable for gaming use for another 2-3 years, even more if OP sticks to 1080p.
 
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That's kind of my point, if buying a new system today I wouldn't buy an i5, id go Ryzen for the extra threads. The 4690 is a good chip I just think the 4 threads mean its lifespan will be lower than CPU's with more threads.

The latest I read is Coffee Lake will have 6 core i5's and i7's.
 
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