Intel Core i7-4770K Review

[jetguat]

3770k or 4770k

Noob. First post. But in the next month of so I'm gonna be getting a new rig. Old one is OLLLLD Gateway, Pentium 2. I had been planning on 3770k, but enough time has passed that 4770k is available.

I'm not a heavy gamer, but would like to on occasion. I do plan to do lots of video transcoding, editing, to make home movies from older pictures and movie. So in my mind CPU processing power is perhaps more important that GPU. That said. I've been thinking gigabyte gtx 670 OC, though I see there are newer versions now.

is the 4770k worth the extra cost over the 3770k? I dont upgrade computers to often, I tend to use them until they can barely function anymore.

 

[Feronix]

If you use them for that long it probably doesn't really matter. The 4770k will be a tad quicker out of the box but will also be reaching the limit of an overclock quicker due to it running hot. I'd personally always like to have the ability to upgrade but I see that that's different in your case.

The GTX 770 should cost the same as a 670, but the 770 beats the 680 in most scenarios, so I'd definitely go for that.

 

[antihero]

I wouldn't bet my money that a 770 overclocks as well as a 670 FTW. There are people who've done 1300MHz on those cards (under water, obviously).

 

[Master&Puppet]

Noob. First post. But in the next month of so I'm gonna be getting a new rig. Old one is OLLLLD Gateway, Pentium 2. I had been planning on 3770k, but enough time has passed that 4770k is available.

I'm not a heavy gamer, but would like to on occasion. I do plan to do lots of video transcoding, editing, to make home movies from older pictures and movie. So in my mind CPU processing power is perhaps more important that GPU. That said. I've been thinking gigabyte gtx 670 OC, though I see there are newer versions now.

is the 4770k worth the extra cost over the 3770k? I dont upgrade computers to often, I tend to use them until they can barely function anymore.

If you use them for that long it probably doesn't really matter. The 4770k will be a tad quicker out of the box but will also be reaching the limit of an overclock quicker due to it running hot. I'd personally always like to have the ability to upgrade but I see that that's different in your case.

The GTX 770 should cost the same as a 670, but the 770 beats the 680 in most scenarios, so I'd definitely go for that.

I wouldn't bet my money that a 770 overclocks as well as a 670 FTW. There are people who've done 1300MHz on those cards (under water, obviously).

I'd go for a 4770K - I own an Ivy Bridge CPU and I've worked on several Haswell rigs but I prefer having the iVR on Haswell - really makes manual voltage overclocking awesome as well as having the adaptive voltage option.

You won't squeeze much at all out of overclocking a 770 - it is a re-badged and overclocked 680 so there is virtually no headroom left to push the clocks. But I'd get a 770 over a 670 - I think the price is right given what you are getting (basically it's £50 more for a 680).

 

[jetguat]

I wouldn't bet my money that a 770 overclocks as well as a 670 FTW. There are people who've done 1300MHz on those cards (under water, obviously).

was thinking about the gigabyte 670 OC over the 670 FTW. Price was about the same. Saw a review about the gigabyte 770 OC on here, but really didnt digest it clearly enough. OC3D seems to compare it favorably to the titan.

 

[antihero]

^That must be the 780 OC then. It's roughly on par with a Titan @ 837MHz.