What to do?

[[L]imey]

So I decided to build a new desktop with the gift cards I got for Xmas. I picked up a 970, an evga 500w psu, 8 gigs of ram, and a corsair af 240 case. I have a gigabyte GA-Z68MA-D2H-B3 motherboard and a low grade chip (not sure if pentium or celeron, bought 2nd hand from dposcorp, but have since deleted the pms) I am out of thermal paste so I don't want to take the heatsink off to check.

Anyway, I hadn't ever really thought about using the board, but I realized that it is the right form factor for the case, so the question is this...

In the search for a processor, do I just get something like a 3770k,and put it in the existing mobo(can that chipset overclock that chip?)

Or do I get a new mobo and a 4690k?

My assumption is that the second option will be around 50 to 75 dollars more expensive.

Thoughts?

 

[Dayaks]

In benchmarks the 3770k (8 threads) seems to trade blows with the 4690k (4 threads). It's all in the noise for gaming. The 3770k does about -2% worse than the 4690k.

On multithreaded applications (utilizing 8 threads) the 3770k should slaughter the 4690k. I personally do a lot of encoding so the 3770k would be more appealing to me if I already had the mobo.

http://www.anandtech.com/show/8227/devils-canyon-review-intel-core-i7-4790k-and-i5-4690k

 

[[L]imey]

Thanks for the link Dayaks.

Any idea if I can OC the 3770 on that motherboard? I missed that whole generation of chips, so I don't know if it's doable or not.