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Haiz02

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Hey Im just asking for an opinion. Which should I buy? Should I buy an used i7 4790 or slowly upgrading to coffee lake? Im currently using an i3-4150. This cpu is pretty bad for cpu intensive games like PUBG.Just asking which one is worth the most and could not make me not to spend money upgrading my pc for like 2-3 years. My current specs is


I3-4150
GTX 1050TI
8GB DDR3
HP 198E
VS450
1TB WD
 
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your current MB does not seems to be supporting overclocking so you can go for the non K parts like i7 4770 or 4790.
it will cost you somewhere between 170 and 300$. like this one:
https://www.ebay.com/itm/SR149-i7-4770-3-40GHz-8M-5-GT-sQuad-Core-Intel-Core-Socket-LGA1150-CPU-Processor/332417184156?epid=2210291344&hash=item4d659bb19c:g:BwAAAOSwDkVZ56JG
a brand new coffee lake with similar or better performance will start at about 400$ today. ~40-50$ lower when H and B mother boards released.
so it's up to you which rout to go. it's important to note that the PSU is also crying for an upgrade to a more robust one. your computer will also feel much snappier with a SSD treat. and you can get them all (CPU, PSU, SSD) for the price of the...
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i7 4790 is twice as powerful than your i3 4150 (compute power passmark), and runs at 0.1GHz more than your i3.

the thing you must realise is that games are written to use a certain number of cores and not hyperthreaded. which is why a lot of people prefer i5 > i7 for gaming. BUT this has changed since the recent advent of threaded multicore games (like for example overwatch and the soon to be released wolfenstein).

so depending on what you want to do in the next 2-3 years, will refelct on what you should invest in. want to play wolfenstein .. you gotta go i7 or the very latest i5 6 core (no garantee this will work until wolfenstein is coded for it). if the most up to date games are not on your list of things to do, upgrade slowly.
 
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your current MB does not seems to be supporting overclocking so you can go for the non K parts like i7 4770 or 4790.
it will cost you somewhere between 170 and 300$. like this one:
https://www.ebay.com/itm/SR149-i7-4770-3-40GHz-8M-5-GT-sQuad-Core-Intel-Core-Socket-LGA1150-CPU-Processor/332417184156?epid=2210291344&hash=item4d659bb19c:g:BwAAAOSwDkVZ56JG
a brand new coffee lake with similar or better performance will start at about 400$ today. ~40-50$ lower when H and B mother boards released.
so it's up to you which rout to go. it's important to note that the PSU is also crying for an upgrade to a more robust one. your computer will also feel much snappier with a SSD treat. and you can get them all (CPU, PSU, SSD) for the price of the coffee lake system if you go for 4770/4790
 
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Haiz02

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So what if I buy an i7 4770k or i7 4790k with z97 motherboard? Do think that will be worth it?

 
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