4790K + Z97 Upgrade

CalVic

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Heya,

Currently have a AMD 8350 and Sabertooth R2.0. I'm quite bored to be fair and was wondering if this would be a nice upgrade?

Also thinking of getting the Asus Maximus VII Fomula, any thoughts on this board?

I'm new to the new Intel way of things, the last Intel chip I had was a Q9450 back in 08, and things have changed in terms of overclocking etc.

I think I'll have to do some decent research before I attempt to play with overclocking :)
 
Coming from an FX8350 at 4.4ghz to a i5 4690k like I have, you will only see slight differences in certain games, mainly older games to be honest.
 
When I moved from my 1090t to a 4670k i noticed little difference in a lot of games. It was only big RTS games like total war or Sins where I saw a big difference.

When I was using my temporary rig for the last month with a Athlon 760K at 4.5GHz I saw a very small amount of difference in most cases.

You will benefit moving to Intel, but it really depends on the game.
 
Funnily enough, I don't game a whole lot these day's.

The game I mostly play is CS: GO and that's usually on a 4:3 Resolution and all on low settings.

Plus, I do FSX now and then, and the 8350 is good, but Intel is stronger.
 
If you're running your 8350 at a high OC then you won't notice much difference. Game wise you'll only get a benefit with poorly optimized games.
 
I wouldn't bother if I remember rightly you're at 5th or close to, the price performance for the switch really really isn't worth it to be honest, the FX8350 is a great chip when overclocked an with some decent ram
 
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