Hello, I am wondering if a 4790K will be a noticeable upgrade over a 8350. Also would there be any cheaper alternatives with the same level of prefomance as the 4790K.
Thank you, Bobyochen
Depends on the games or software suites that you might use. There are some applications where the 8350 can beat an i7. While it might be a noticeable upgrade in some applications, I don't think it is worth the cost.
Looking at your system specification, I would suggest upgrading your GPU.
I wouldn't bother man, not enough of an improvement to warrant the price tag. Just a slight performance increase.
Won't be much of a change. Especially in games.
Spend that ~$300 on a new GPU like a R9 280X. That will give you much more noticeable results.
Also if you're not overclocking consider the E3 line of Xeons. They are locked I7s with no integrated graphics.
Should probably wait until Skylake, in all honesty. Much later Intel releases, or future AMD considerations.
Depending a bit of your ussage, the unlocked haswell cpu´s are basicly better for gaming, But not enough to satisfy the cost, unless you do allot of rendering, aswell. THe 4790K is realy a great renderer
I would personaly keep the current FX8350 and wait for 2016 wenn the unlocked skylake chips are comming out.
Those specs are out of date I have a 770TI currently. And I was just wondering because i am getting bottle necked in some games by it, most noticeably warframe in crowded areas.
Thank you, Bobyochen
WTF is a 770 Ti
Thats probably because that game is very badly optimized for multithreading, which allot of games unfortunatly still are. Since the haswell cpu´s have better single threaded performance this will be some kind of an improvement. But i think you won´t need to botter with the i7 then, unless you do allot of productivity aswell. if not an i5 will be fine.
But yeah i think an upgrade will not be worth it, unless the bottleneck is realy terrible?
It depends allot on the games you play, ARMA 3, Skyrim, LoL. DayZ, are a few games that realy benefits the intels single threaded performance. But games like Crysis 3, Farcry3, bioshock, tombraider, and such there is not much of a diffrence between amd an intel.
Only way i step up from the 8350 was if i was in badly need of a small factor build. Itx will always be best fitted with a lga 1150 due to mobo selection. Long as my atx build justifies my needs ill stay with 8350.
P.S. 4.8ghz 8350, asus crosshair v, and sli 780 or r9 290x will play any game max settings 1440p. Even my 7970 cf can hold 50fps steady in today games with factor oc on the gpu s.
yes it's a big step up especially if you overclock.
Lol big step my ass,it's all about optimization,you're lucky if you'll even see a performance difference in games.
Noticeable and significant are 2 different things OP.
~ Significant - hell no.
~ Noticeable - maybe, but I very much doubt it even with a blind test that you'd notice anything. Only with synthetic benchmarks will you see gain/s.
I have had an AMD FX-8150 and I currently have Intel i7-4790K and both were running 7970's on a crossfire and I have not seen any diffrence on games, not even triple A titles. The AMD one was running 4,6Ghz core clock with Crosshair V formula-z (excellent board) and now my intel one is @4,7Ghz core clock. Only diffrence that I have seen is overclocking your GPU. Intel is much more solid because it's base clock is 100Mhz and somehow it's better for the pcie lanes versus running an AMD chip with bus speed of 267Mhz.