i7 4790 or i7 8700k

[Palma1]

Hi all ,
I'm currently using a i7 4790 with a 1080ti ,16gb 1600 ram @ 1440p 144hz , no massive issues just feel i should be getting more fps from my card (60-80 fps on new tombraider ultra , 60/70 on AC origins drops below 50 sometimes on ultra)

I've been looking at i7 8700k mobo 16gb ddr4 bundles for and £700 would i get much benefit from this expensive upgrade?

 

[mahanddeem]

Depends on how "precious" this £700 to you. You'll definitely gain some performance in everything. Though not ground shattering increase.
I'd personally do it, I'd get the 8086k or wait for the new 9700 or 9900

 

[Roland Of Gilead]

yeah, there would be a bump in FPS for sure. The 8700k is the best gaming chip you can get right now. Yes, others (AMD/Intel 8600k etc) are close, but the 8700k is awesome. It will push more FPS out of your 1080ti. No doubting that. How much varies from game to game. I'm not sure even with an 8700k you will hit 144hz/fps at 1440p, some games yes CS:GO, maybe fortnight, less demanding games. Games like BF1/BF V maybe not 144hz unless you dial back settings a little.

But certainly the 8700k will give you max FPS at that res. I'd go for it considering you have the monitor and the GPU to do it.

Something like this would get you started:

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel - Core i7-8700K 3.7GHz 6-Core Processor (£439.94 @ AWD-IT)
CPU Cooler: Noctua - NH-D14 65.0 CFM CPU Cooler (£64.99 @ CCL Computers)
Motherboard: Gigabyte - Z370 AORUS Gaming K3 (rev. 1.0) ATX LGA1151 Motherboard (£117.54 @ Aria PC)
Memory: Patriot - Viper 4 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4-3000 Memory (£130.67 @ Amazon UK)
Total: £753.14
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2018-10-07 16:16 BST+0100

Providing you have a decent PSU to drive the system, a case to house it all.

Edit: update to include a z370 mobo, somehow clicked on a B360, which will work with the CPU but won't allow OC'ing. Z370 is the way to go with a 'k' chip.

 

[Roland Of Gilead]

Depends on how "precious" this £700 to you. You'll definitely gain some performance in everything. Though not ground shattering increase.
I'd personally do it, I'd get the 8086k or wait for the new 9700 or 9900

I wouldn't pay the premium for the 8086k v the 8700k. They are literal the same chip, only binned a fraction higher. Not worth it. If the prices were the same then yes.

 

[jeremyj_83]

If you were to go with the AMD 2700X you could spend less than 600 Pounds and have close to the same performance as the i7-8700k. With the extra savings you could go and get a nice 480GB NVMe SSD.
https://uk.pcpartpicker.com/list/BpYGV6

 

[Roland Of Gilead]

If you were to go with the AMD 2700X you could spend less than 600 Pounds and have close to the same performance as the i7-8700k. With the extra savings you could go and get a nice 480GB NVMe SSD.
https://uk.pcpartpicker.com/list/BpYGV6

not the same, but within 5-10% game/task dependant. For multitasking it beats the I7, for gaming it get close, but no cigar! 😉

agree with the pricing though. Money to be saved with an AMD system, for 90% of the gaming FPS, but at a lower cost.

I've a Ryzen system with a GTX 1060 and it's perfect for my needs at 1080p 75hz for gaming. But eats anything else I throw at it. Defo worth a consideration.

 

[jeremyj_83]

If you were to go with the AMD 2700X you could spend less than 600 Pounds and have close to the same performance as the i7-8700k. With the extra savings you could go and get a nice 480GB NVMe SSD.
https://uk.pcpartpicker.com/list/BpYGV6

not the same, but within 5-10% game/task dependant. For multitasking it beats the I7, for gaming it get close, but no cigar! 😉

agree with the pricing though. Money to be saved with an AMD system, for 90% of the gaming FPS, but at a lower cost.

I've a Ryzen system with a GTX 1060 and it's perfect for my needs at 1080p 75hz for gaming. But eats anything else I throw at it. Defo worth a consideration.

Plus the ability to add a big SSD for still less money than the i7, motherboard, and RAM is important. Personally I would take 90% of the gaming speed, still a bump from the 4790, and have better multithreaded abilities.

 

[Roland Of Gilead]

If you were to go with the AMD 2700X you could spend less than 600 Pounds and have close to the same performance as the i7-8700k. With the extra savings you could go and get a nice 480GB NVMe SSD.
https://uk.pcpartpicker.com/list/BpYGV6

not the same, but within 5-10% game/task dependant. For multitasking it beats the I7, for gaming it get close, but no cigar! 😉

agree with the pricing though. Money to be saved with an AMD system, for 90% of the gaming FPS, but at a lower cost.

I've a Ryzen system with a GTX 1060 and it's perfect for my needs at 1080p 75hz for gaming. But eats anything else I throw at it. Defo worth a consideration.

Plus the ability to add a big SSD for still less money than the i7, motherboard, and RAM is important. Personally I would take 90% of the gaming speed, still a bump from the 4790, and have better multithreaded abilities.

I agree That's exactly why I went with my system I love it. Intel offer amazing gaming performance but fall short in everything else (well up to the forced release of Coffee Lake). AMD offers much better value/performance with more core/threads than Intel. But no one can argue that on gaming alone, Intel wins out, no matter which two competing CPU's you wish to compare.

 

[Palma1]

Thank all, lots options there that i have not considered.
I already have a 500gb evo 860 , would like to add a second 1tb one tho !

 

[Roland Of Gilead]

Thank all, lots options there that i have not considered.
I already have a 500gb evo 860 , would like to add a second 1tb one tho !

Don't bother. Keep your main SSD as boot drive with lots of free space, and use a 1/2tb standard 7200rpm drive with 64mb cache for your data and games. If your SSD is 500gb, then you can install a few games to it for faster loading times, but that's really the only benefit. With 500gbs, youd have windows and maybe up to 10 games installed, with the rest on the standard 1/2tb HD.

 

[jeffredo]

Do you have an unlocked i7-4790k? If you overclock it to about 4.7 Ghz you'll close the gap a little, but the the i7-8700k will still peform 10% to 25% better with the same GPU depending on the game. Also, the i7-4790k is not far behind almost any Ryzen chip in gaming, if at all.

 

[Roland Of Gilead]

Do you have an unlocked i7-4790k? If you overclock it to about 4.7 Ghz you'll close the gap a little, but the the i7-8700k will still peform 10% to 25% better with the same GPU depending on the game. Also, the i7-4790k is not far behind almost any Ryzen chip in gaming, if at all.

Can't disagree with you. The I7/R2700x is a pretty close match just in pure FPS alone. Literally too close to call, and game dependant. I'd take the 2700x though anytime. Intel wins out on pure FPS, but factor anything else in like streaming/multitasking then even a 1600/x will beat out an I7 4790k. It depends on what one wants to achieve and how much headroom they want to have (and i hate to say it) and future proof. AMD just offers better all round performance with more resources for less money. Gaming performance within 10% of a comparable Intel chip, but much better productivity and multitasking.