i5-4690 Enough for work?

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Greeley

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Or rather is any i7 going to be worth upgrading for cpu intensive work?
Photoshop/premier pro/etc
 
for heavy CPU intensive and multi-tasking work definitively any i7 worth it can deliver ~30% performance boost under typical task and over 50% under heavy multi-threaded applications talking about 4c/8t chips. now if we talk about i7s 6c/12t things are just much better.. also I would put an eye in your single RAM stick as a lot of those apps really benefit from the Dual Channel configuration.
 
I plan on going 32gb ram (my mobo's max/8gb x4)

I don't really know how to oc, would a non k i7 or xenon work?
 
How do i know if my mobo is skylake compatible

Nvm lol its not, guess ill have to save up for a skylake i7/mobo
 
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if you do a lot of video stuff i think the haswell-e would be more worthwhile. it would be a long wait for skylake-e

6c/12t would be more substantial than skylake 4c/8t IPC upgrade. of course 8c/16t would be best but the cost will be a whole lot more.
 
unless you're working in photoshop all day, the performance increase by going with a i7 over the i5 is going to be rather small. Talking about photo editing and such.

Now for video work the story changes. There are some serious time savings going with a higher end cpu there.
 
You haven't told us what you mean with work...

At work I have an Ivy Bridge i5 laptop and a Haswell i5 desktop. Both have mechanical drives and only 4 GB of RAM - yes our IT department should be fired...

At home I have a Phenom II X4 955 with 8GB of RAM and a SSD. This setup runs rings around the two work PCs. Running a couple of DDE linked spreadsheets, couple of websites open, brokerage software open and my CPU usage never goes above 20%.

Unless you are doing something where the extra threads make a difference, you may not notice any improvement. It really depends on the workload you need it for.
 
Right now im not in any design work and i was trying to build a pc for gaming (hence the i5)
But im leaning towards Illustration and Web / Mobile Design.

And in high school our intro to pc teacher converted our class into an editing class (Premire Pro and another program i think it was imageready) so i think i can maybe do free lance editing? (Editing for a Studio would be amazing)
 
Never used any editing software before but based on most CPU reviews that is the one area where an i7 outshines the i5.

It would depend on your usage scenario - if you feel that currently your cpu is a bottleneck and that removing the bottleneck will allow you to get work done faster, then you should upgrade.

When I was ripping DVDs I just let Handbrake work overnight on an old Macbook (Core2Duo). Since there was no time pressure the slowness of the process never bothered me. If there was any time pressure on this, I would have done it on my desktop. If I was earning money from this, I would have upgraded the desktop to an i7. Hope that provides you with some guidance.
 
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