Question CPU upgrade for ASUS Z97-AR

[jeffnc]

I have the aforementioned mboard. Currently have an i5 4690K. Was wondering if there was a good bang for the buck upgrade for the CPU. I was planning on upgrading the Radeon R9 200 card with dual GeForce GTX 1070 cards that I happened to get for free. Not looking for a total hotrod but just trying to update it a little to do a little more gaming.

 

[Lutfij]

You might as well go for the i7-4790K but I doubt it's going to be found at a reasonable price unless you scour Ebay or your local listings.

 

[Avro Arrow]

You're never going to find an old CPU like a Devil's Canyon at any price that could be called "good bang for the buck" when a $100 AM4 APU is so much faster than anything in that generation.

Any money you spend on another Devil's Canyon CPU will be just flushed down the toilet because there's not a single Intel 4th-gen CPU that would be considered fast these days.

 

[jeffnc]

OK thanks for the info. Looks like the i7 is about $100 on eBay, but looking at benchmarks doesn't really look like there's enough of an improvement there. Not building a new box for an AMD setup though. Will just play the games that run well!

 

[Eximo]

i7-4790 (basically a non overclockable 4770k) can be found relatively cheaply in office PCs.

Swap in your old chip and sell it or you get second whole computer to do whatever you want with.

https://www.newegg.com/dell-optiple...stations/p/1VK-0001-197E1?Item=9SIABX7JN37390