Help with choosing a CPU

katzpowa

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Hi, right now I wish to upgrade my CPU since I feel it bottlenecks my system, even if a I have an gtx 960 some games have the same performance in low as well in high, so I want to leave behind my i3 4150.

Right now I want to buy a decent CPU for nowdays games and perhaps for 3 or 4 years to come, I have plans to upgrade in the next year my GPU to a 1070 or even perhaps the next AMD graphics cards but my pc is dying for a new CPU.

So since my country doesn't have many hardware stores, mostly I use Amazon, since here in Mexico prices are cheaper there.

My options are, converting the prices to dollars:

i5 4440 (it's been a while since I have seen them around that price, mostly $190): $170
i5 4460: $200
i5 4590: $216
i7 4790: $290

Sadly my mother doesnt let me do OC, and the 4690 it's out of the ecuation since their prices are just awfully bad ($280) oh and I saw a 4690k for around $250 but I don't know if it is worth and the I have never bought in that online store.

I wanted to upgrado to ryzen, especially 1600 but it would cost me $240 + $120 a good MoBo + $60 8 gb ddr4 so I thought the i7 would be better

Since I don't want to change CPU in a while what would be better? I know ryzen may be the best but I could buy the 4590 pretty quickly in comparison to the 4790, and even so the 4440 if I ever find them but if the i7 it's better for the future and it performs better in games I am playing, like GTA V, arma, Battlefield, The division, The witcher 3 and so on I would gladly wait some time to save for it.
 
The 4590 and the 4790 will be about the same for gaming performance. If you do a lot of intensive heavily threaded task then you would be better served by the 4790.

I don't recommend anything less than the 4590 though. My brother has a 4460 and he is saying it bottlenecks his games somewhat, but he is using 2x GTX 970s in SLI though. The problem with the games you listed is they are mostly CPU bound, so the higher speed of the 4590 could actually gain you a few FPS over the 4790. However the 4790 does have a bit more cache that can help with some things.

Overall I feel the 4590 would be the best all-round option since this isn't a super high end gaming rig and going from a 4590 to a 4790 isn't a huge leap for the price, basically it just adds a bit more cache and double the number of threads with hyperthreading.
 


Sadly it is non existent over here, or their price are bloated and yeah, that's why I wanted and i7, somehow I managed to play mostly CPU intensive games
 
Hmmm perhaps but it seems like a lot of people doesn't like to deliver to Mexico or the taxes + shipment are pretty high, so Welp I'm between 4590 for the value and the 4790 for some future proof, two things:

Is there any benchmark comparing recent or new games between the 4690 and the 4790? I want to see if 4 extra threads help in recent games, since old benchmarks show that the increase performance is pretty low

And thoughts about the Xeon E3-1231V3? I've seen them around the price of ~260 dollars