Intel I7 6700K VS Intel I7 4790K HELP PLEASE

Fading_Clos3r

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Hi, so basically I want to get a new CPU but im not really sure what to get, currently I have a I5 4460 and its just not cutting it for video editing. I have 32GB of DDR3 Ram and my mobo is the Gigabyte GA-B85-HD3. Should I go for the 4790K it should I save up more money and buy a new mobo and new RAM and the 6700K, I don't really know what to do, preferably I don't want to buy all new stuff cause it would costs lots of money and if I bought a new mobo I would have to buy Windows 10 again. If the difference is that great I will go for the 6700K but its up to you guys. Thanks.HELP PLEASE
 
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Another vote for the 4790k. The performance difference isn't that great between the 4790k and 6700k to warrant a whole new setup, reinstalling windows and ditching 32gb of ram for new ram. Even without an aftermarket cooler, z series board and overclocking the 4790k will be substantially faster than a 4460. It's a full 1ghz faster out of the box and has hyper threading.

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i7-4790k would be a good compromise. Having to ditch 32GB of memory wouldn't be very cost effective.

Certainly the fastest out of the box clock speed available. Which is good since you can't overclock on that board. Though a Z97 board could be had for around $100.

Have you looked at a tool that can do GPU encoding?
 
Another vote for the 4790k. The performance difference isn't that great between the 4790k and 6700k to warrant a whole new setup, reinstalling windows and ditching 32gb of ram for new ram. Even without an aftermarket cooler, z series board and overclocking the 4790k will be substantially faster than a 4460. It's a full 1ghz faster out of the box and has hyper threading.
 
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Many encoding applications can be split up into many small jobs and run on the CUDA cores of Nvidia GPUs or the Stream processors (if that is still a thing, been a while since I have dug deep into AMD) of AMD Radeon cards. AMD tends toward Open CL as a base language, while Nvidia uses the proprietary CUDA platform.

Some software supports using these methods to accelerate encoding jobs.