Upgrade to 4790K or Save for Next Architecture?

[AngryGoldfish]

I originally bought my Z87 motherboard and 4670K in Jan 2014, fully intending on keeping it until Q1 2016 and then upgrading to Skylake. Sadly, earlier this year, my Z87 motherboard broke a week after the warranty ended. I replaced it with a better Z97 board. This put a spanner in the works as I spent an additional €170 for essentially a more detailed BIOS and prettier heatsinks. To upgrade to Skylake in 2016 became a little bit of a broken dream.

However, I thought, why don't I extend the life of this Z97 motherboard that I'm relatively contented with by picking up a 4790K and overclocking it as much as I could. I'd skip Skylake entirely and wait until the next big architecture is released, either on the enthusiast platform, Skylake refresh, or Cannonlake. The only issue I see with this is that I won't be able to upgrade my SSD to an m.2 PCI-e drive as soon as I had hoped. That's the only major benefit I see with Z170.

Any thoughts? My system is an R9 Fury running at 1440p. I'm mostly playing GTA V, but I'm also into titles like SoM, Dishonored, MGS, Mad Max, Deus Ex, Hitman, Tomb Raider, Battlefront.

 

[JR23]

Unless your going to do some heavily thread based work I don't think you will find it a huge upgrade. If you enjoy benchmarking and overclocking by all means go for it but just for gaming, even on the most demanding titles I don't think your going to notice a difference that justifies ~£150.

JR

 

[Excalabur50]

As JR said you aren't going to see that much of a difference in games by upgrading the CPU if you really want a boost though and a minor? one maybe is a newer GPU when they come out next year which should give you some more FPS

 

[Tolemac]

like the above post said stay where you are atm mate and get your moneys worth out of the components you have bought

 

[NeverBackDown]

Ya your current 4670k is more than enough right now. So like everyone else has said I'd say save up for the next big architecture. AFAIK that will be CannonLake in 2017.

 

[Wraith]

Yeah I'd stick to the 4670K tbh, I ordered a 4790K yesterday but I'll be jumping significantly up from this 4130T and I'll actually use all the threads for rendering.

 

[AngryGoldfish]

Cheers, folks. I'm probably gonna stick to the 4670K. Would have been nice to be able to squeeze out 4.6 or 4.7Ghz on it, but 4.5Ghz is about as high as I can reasonably go with my Nepton 240M without cranking the fans up. If I see someone selling a 4790K that overclocks well for cheap, I might jump on it for the craic.

With all that said, whilst I don't think I'll be playing Fallout 4 for quite some time, Gamers Nexus (another one of my favourite tech sites) released a benchmark showing the i7 trumping the i5's by a wide margin. I'm not sure if it's appropriate to post a link here, but you can Google Gamers Nexus Fallout 4 CPU benchmark and probably find it.

 

[TheF34RChannel]

Regarding their fallout 4 tests; do note that it's the game engine being poorly optimised that way, or something of the sorts. It might be rectified or not, nevertheless this might be a unique case.

 

[BigDaddyKong]

 

[AngryGoldfish]

^ Is that posted in the right place?