4690k or 4790k

[GoryMadLogger]

Hi,

I'm currently running a Pentium G3258 and has served me faithfully so far with a decent overclock, I am getting a bequiet shadow rock LP cooler, which is the best I can fit into my case as I have fitted my full desktop into a flight case so I can get out back from university easily.

I have the money to get the i5 or the i7, I'm running an asroclk z97 anniversary board so can over clock, I'm swaying towards the i7 as I think it would last me a fair while especially with the 8 threads over the i5's 4, I do a fair amount of gaming with my r9 280, and quite alot of playing emulation such as dolphin and pcsx2 which I think the extra cores would help with, and I do a small bit of video and photo editing.

Any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance

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[Phage]

How important is the extra cash to you ? If yoiu're a penniless student, then it's the i5. If you can afford the extra for hyperthreading, then I'd get it. Both are perfectly good choices.

[GoryMadLogger]

How important is the extra cash to you ? If yoiu're a penniless student, then it's the i5. If you can afford the extra for hyperthreading, then I'd get it. Both are perfectly good choices.

Its money I have made from making Minecraft servers so is money for that I can spend on what I want without worrying about not affording the essentials.


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[Phage]

I'd probably go the i7 then. What's the rest of the spec ?

[GoryMadLogger]

8gb ddr3 Kingston beast
MSI r9 280 (running at 8x gen1, in process of sorting to get it up to gen 3 x16, PCI extender issues)
Collection of mechanical HDDs

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[Dayks]

8gb ddr3 Kingston beast
MSI r9 280 (running at 8x gen1, in process of sorting to get it up to gen 3 x16, PCI extender issues)
Collection of mechanical HDDs

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Get the i5-4690k and an SSD, will make a much more noticeable difference than the i7.

[GoryMadLogger]

would it not only speed up game loading times, i realsie that not may games take advantage of multiple cores atm, but for future would the i7 be better and then get an ssd later on?

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[EndlessWaves]

Most of the i7's improvement in gaming comes from the extra cache. The SMT capable scheduler ('hyper-threading') does very little overall, it sometimes causes a performance drop instead of a performance increase.
http://www.hardware.fr/focus/101/per...eux-loupe.html

The size of the performance increase of the 4790k over the 4690k is also pretty tiny. You're never likely to notice the difference in practice. I've never heard anyone say they regret buying a Q6600 instead of a Q9300, or an i5-750 instead of an i7-860.

The only reason I'd ever consider it is as an overclocking fan. The 4790k will be better binned so if the size of your overclock is important then the i7 on average is probably 100-200Mhz faster.

An SSD won't benefit that much in gaming (but even improved load times is more noticable than a faster CPU), but it makes a big difference if you use the PC for anything else like modding games.

[GoryMadLogger]

So for gaming there is little to no difference between the i5 and i7, is there things in which it would be useful/warrnet the extra cash,
I'd thought it would be better for emulating games, but could be wrong
As for editing I manage with a dual core atm so it would just speed things up a bit but I don't do enough that it really matters about it,

Would it be more likely to last going forward than the i5 in terms of not needin an upgrade as soon

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[GoryMadLogger]

Been looking and it seems like emulators are now being able to take use of more cores with pcsx2 being able to use 3+ cores so was thinking the i7 would give more room for it to work with, I realise that normal pc games won't use this much, but I pkay quite a bit of emulated games. So a decent overclock and the more cores should make a gd emulator or at least that is what I can gather.

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[virtuo]

I upgraded my i5 4670k to an i7 4790k and honestly in gaming there's no noticeable difference at all, maybe 1 or 2 FPS in the odd title, that you'd only pick up in benchmarks.

3D rendering and video transcoding has a more substantial improvement.

I'd agree that you'll get more tangible "performance" improvements from an SSD

[GoryMadLogger]

I upgraded my i5 4670k to an i7 4790k and honestly in gaming there's no noticeable difference at all, maybe 1 or 2 FPS in the odd title, that you'd only pick up in benchmarks.

3D rendering and video transcoding has a more substantial improvement.

I'd agree that you'll get more tangible "performance" improvements from an SSD

If you play emualted games using dolphin etc have you noticed any difference in them?

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[virtuo]

If you play emualted games using dolphin etc have you noticed any difference in them?

I actually do play a lot of emulated games and honestly I haven't noticed much difference, the i5 is plenty beast enough to handle Dolphin - I was happy enough with the i5 emulation that it didn't factor in to my upgrade decision. The i5 you are looking at is faster than mine was.

If you are wanting to go up to PS3/x360 emulation in future then even the i7 isn't likely going to be "enough", by the time the codebases are optimised enough there'll be better and faster CPUs available.

[GoryMadLogger]

I actually do play a lot of emulated games and honestly I haven't noticed much difference, the i5 is plenty beast enough to handle Dolphin - I was happy enough with the i5 emulation that it didn't factor in to my upgrade decision. The i5 you are looking at is faster than mine was.

If you are wanting to go up to PS3/x360 emulation in future then even the i7 isn't likely going to be "enough", by the time the codebases are optimised enough there'll be better and faster CPUs available.

Thanks, only benefit really is video editing then

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[Exetric]

Get the i5-4690k and an SSD, will make a much more noticeable difference than the i7.

^^ I agree, I did the same thing when I was deciding on components for a second pc and went with the 4690k and spent the rest on a better graphics card.

[GoryMadLogger]

^^ I agree, I did the same thing when I was deciding on components for a second pc and went with the 4690k and spent the rest on a better graphics card.

So swaying towards the i5 and ssd, is there any brands of ssds or a good size you would recommend?