When will i7 4790K stop being manufactured? should I sell i5 and get i7?

[jigger]

As an upgrade it's pretty bad value to more from one quad core to another and once you roll the dice on overclocking you could even find it's a downgrade. If it was a choice between the two then the i7 would make some sense depending on price.

I would bank the money and hold off until Zen or Intel get their act together and move desktop chips to 6 and 8 core chips. Something that I feel they could have done with Broadwell and Shylake.

[gupsterg]

Never bit on buying the i7 4790K, after taking all posts into consideration at the time it made sense not go down this route .

SO quite rightly "banked" the £s for when there is something worthwhile upgrading to and if I need it .

[khanmein]

get i7 for future proof but FYI future proof is not legit & valid!

[GoryMadLogger]

I'm just about to upgrade from my Pentium g3258 which has served me faithfully. But when your getting about 17 fps on low think it's time for an upgrade, I'm just debating between the i5 and i7, if your going to do more than just game or play with some emulators or vms the extar cores will be useful