4690k --> 4770k

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Do you think this is a useless upgrade for a person whose running a 1080ti? And if there is even a small improvement in performance, would it be worth the investment compared to upgrading to a new socket?
 
I had a 4790K (upgraded to 8700K) and I still have a 4690K system.
I benched them at the same speed (4.4GHz) and most of the benchmarks were identical.

I since added a better cooler to the 4690K and it runs fine at 4.5GHz now, faster than I could run the 4790K.
It may even clock higher, I haven't spent much time with it.

If you want a faster CPU, you really need to move off of Haswell. Though even with an 8700K I don't think
you'll see any kind of huge speed increase.

Use a good CPU cooler and see how high you can clock the 4690K, they do pretty well with no HT.

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was just curious, thinking that the i5 might be holding the ti back as i see cpu usage in the mid 90's during ghost recon wildlands benchmarks.
 
was just curious, thinking that the i5 might be holding the ti back as i see cpu usage in the mid 90's during ghost recon wildlands benchmarks.

I agree with the posters so far. Dialing in a good OC is more important than anything. Getting the 4770K might help if you're running 1080p and trying to get 144fps+ but not much especially since you will prob need to delid it to get the full benefits.
 
personally unless the i7 was free.. I'd not pay any money for a hasswell based upgrade atm... it is quite likely most DIY hasswell motherboards aren't going to get bios updates for the spectre vulnerability (based on what [H] has said..) to me that makes investing anything into a hasswell based system.. not a good move.
 
Do you think this is a useless upgrade for a person whose running a 1080ti? And if there is even a small improvement in performance, would it be worth the investment compared to upgrading to a new socket?
With haswell, the performance difference between the i7 and i5 was less than it is now. If you look at benchmarks where the 4690k and 4790k are at the same clocks, the performance difference is really small.

I think the best gains would be from buying some really fast DDR3 ram. Faster ram opens up CPU performance in games. In situations where you are CPU limited, you'll see pretty nice increases in several games. Especially if you are running at 1080p. You'll probably see pretty good gains. Digital Foundry has a bunch of great videos which show this. In particular, check out their reviews for Skylake CPUs.
 
Holy crap, I almost forgot that I used a 4690K in a HTPC rig a couple of years ago, those chips are $448 right now at Newegg! Guessing that they are OOP and scarce or something, but I know there's no way I paid more than half that for a HTPC chip.
 
not worth the upgrade at all, if you are wanting to do a full upgrade go Kaby/Coffee or Ryzen, not worth putting money into haswell anymore.
 
Holy crap, I almost forgot that I used a 4690K in a HTPC rig a couple of years ago, those chips are $448 right now at Newegg! Guessing that they are OOP and scarce or something, but I know there's no way I paid more than half that for a HTPC chip.
They go for about 200 used. Don't look at newegg prices for EoL products. They always have a huge upcharge to get the few people that are desperate enough to fork over the money. $448 might seem a lot but still cheaper then a entire platform upgrade if a cpu dies.
 
the super high EoL prices mainly get paid by business customers that need old hardware to replace failed hardware..so that they don't have to retest / certify new hardware for a specific task..
 
Depending on how long you think you're keeping the setup, I think it's worth the expense. You can get a 4770k for sub $200 if you shop around and your 4690k if probably worth $140.
 
I had both cpus and the difference is small when it comes too gaming. Encoding was a little faster, but overall, I would spend money elsewhere.

edit. lol @ first post and joined in 2013
 
The list of games that support more than 4 major threads grows daily, but those extra threads rarely scale more than 50% per-core. So the theoretical speedup of a highly-threaded game would be 30%, but you'd be ;lucky to see half that (15%). IT would help with the minimum frame rates, if you're complain about those.

Assuming your 4690k is running stock, I'd wait until you can afford an 8600k. You'd get about 20-30% faster single-threaded performance IN EVERY GAME (no overclock required), and the 6 real cores means you bump that increase to 50% in games that handle 6 native threads.
 
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not worth the upgrade at all, if you are wanting to do a full upgrade go Kaby/Coffee or Ryzen, not worth putting money into haswell anymore.

Well worth it for me when my x58 died last month as I had 32GB of DDR3 sitting around. Couldn't afford a system and DDR4. With my 1080ti, it's not holding anything back, and I'm playing everything at 1440/144.
 
4770 is still plenty capable. It's just wayyy more the Lab ufo phenomenon now lol
 
I'm still running my trusty 4690k at 4.6GHz, with some 2133 Corsair Vengance RAM, and I just can't justify any kind of upgrade for gaming. Tried to convince myself to do it, but after a few minutes of looking around, the performance increase is pretty much nothing on the high end and so little on the minimum, it's just not worth it.

Clock speed is king almost across the board, and 4.6GHz is plenty for me.

Unless the upgrade for the sake of upgrading itch is that strong, I'd target a nice cooler and get your OC up there.
 
^ same here 4.3G on stock cooler and even 3 years later it still meets all of my needs.. with the RX580 I can play all of my games great at 2560*1440 max details..
 
I don't see my 4670K @ 4.6 holding my 1080ti back at all.

I thought the same, then I upgraded my 4770k stuck at 4.3 to an 8700k, didn't even bother overclocking, and picked up a consistent 10 to 20 minimum frames in wow at 4k, also running a 1080tj
 
Delid/relid it man. I don't know I'm retro computing for about a couple weeks.
 
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