4690k vs 4790k Help!

[bloodxakep]

Hello.I'm using fx 6300 with r9 290 now.I want to upgrade my CPU.I need CPU only for gaming.Does 4790k worth extra 100$?Also need to chose the mobo:
ASUS H97-PRO GAMER
GIGABYTE GA-Z97X-Gaming 3
GIGABYTE GA-Z97X-SLI
I want to use stock cooler for first 1-2 month.

 

[azathoth]

For gaming it is absolutely not worth paying the extra $100 for the addition of Hyper-Threading. The only real case as to which this would be a good decision, was if you were heavily into video editing and need the extra rendering speed provided by hyper-threading.

You games will not see a benefit from 4690k to 4790k, so save yourself the money

The H97 chipset will NOT allow you to overclock your processor, so I recommend the GIGABYTE GA-Z97X-Gaming 3.
This motherboard is essentially the same as the SLI version, just it was a tid more features, including addition USB ports.

 

[Winly]

Hello.I'm using fx 6300 with r9 290 now.I want to upgrade my CPU.I need CPU only for gaming.Does 4790k worth extra 100$?Also need to chose the mobo:
ASUS H97-PRO GAMER
GIGABYTE GA-Z97X-Gaming 3
GIGABYTE GA-Z97X-SLI
I want to use stock cooler for first 1-2 month.

The only differences between the i5-4690K and i7-4790K are hyper-threading, more L3 cache, and 500MHz clock difference.Also the difference in clock speed can easily be made up if you choose to oc.
Now, The gaming board have slightly better audio chip, better heatsinks on the mobo and can get further overclocking. I will go wit the Gaming 3

 

[DubbleClick]

How exactly can it get further overclocking when the voltage regulator is integrated since haswell?
The audio chip(set) is the same and they both have the same amount of usb 3.0 and 2.0 slots, although the 2.0 slots have a different layout (4/4 on the gaming 3, 6/2 on the sli.
The real difference is the ability of the gaming 3 to do 3-way crossfire (at cost of all x1 slots).

 

[bloodxakep]

How exactly can it get further overclocking when the voltage regulator is integrated since haswell?
The audio chip(set) is the same and they both have the same amount of usb 3.0 and 2.0 slots, although the 2.0 slots have a different layout (4/4 on the gaming 3, 6/2 on the sli.
The real difference is the ability of the gaming 3 to do 3-way crossfire (at cost of all x1 slots).

Have another mobo to chose GIGABYTE GA-Z97-D3H This one is cheaper

 

[DubbleClick]

Well, that one has no SLI.

 

[Joe Yahchouchi]

If you are planning to overclock then I would say no it is not worth, I've read places that the 4790k overclocks poorly. If you are not planning to overclock however, I would say yes, extra 500 mhz can be important, especially for games that use one core only to the max (rome 2 total war for example, runs badly on an i5 3.7ghz) and the 4790k is the fastest cpu out there(turn off hyperthreading from the bios for games though), it's more future proof and it will make your rig last longer than buying something that is good enough for now.

About the boards, I am in no way a board expert, but I was reading the specs on the websites, the ASUS board mentions that it supports amd crossfire but makes no mention of NVIDIA dual VGA, GIGABYTE on the other hand states that it supports both amd and nvidia sli, it also says that it supports overclocked ram up to 2200, maybe you don't need that anyway but since you're picking, might as well go with the one giving you more options