i5 3470 to i5 4690

[zelzie]

Hello, I am thinking right now if it's worth to upgrade my cpu from i5 3470 to i5 4690.

This is my current setup:

i5 3470 3.2ghz
Motherboard lga1155 MSI B75A-G43
8.0 gb (2x4gb) Corsair Dominator platinum 1600
Seasonic P-860
Asus Xonar Essence STX PCI E Audio Card
Zotac GTX 780ti (reference)
Casing NZXT Phantom 630 Full Tower

I am planning to get MSI Z87 + i5 4690 (non k)

Any advise will be greatly appreciated. Thank you in advance.

 

[leeb2013]

You will need a new lga1150 mobo and will get 5-10‰ max improvement in cpu benchmarks which won't translate into any noticeable real world improvement in

If you got the k you might overclock to another 25% improvement, but again thats only in benchmarks or cpu intensive tasks.

 

[barto]

No it's not worth it. If you want a performance boost, buy a SSD.

 

[azaran]

Its not worth it. The cost of the new board and CPU isn't going to be equal to the performance increase you'd get. You're looking at maybe 10% increase which you wont even notice. You'd be better off going with Barto's suggestion and pick up an SSD. You'll notice some OS and application speed increase with that. If you're really wanting to throw money at an upgrade, you could also increase your RAM. But unless you're using some memory intensive programs you might not notice any real improvement there.

 

[AHBman]

Your CPU is great and an upgrade will not improve performances a lot
If you will upgrade, go with H97 board, not Z87, the BIOS is too old for the i5 4690, and you don't OC

 

[zelzie]

thank you so much guys for the advise that you've provided, I'll take your advise and get an ssd hope you all have a good day, thanks!