Is the i5 4590 a good CPU?

[SnowMare]

what exactly is it good for? Im a newbie in building pc and kinda building it for school, web browsing, running some 3d engineering programs, and some very light gaming

will probably hook up a rx 470

 

[Ecky]

It's a fine CPU, but it's also 3 years old. If you're building a new computer right now, I would instead go for an Intel 6xxx CPU, such as the Core i3 6100 or i5 6500.

i3 is 2 core, 4 thread
i5 is 4 core, 4 thread
i7 is 4 core, 8 thread

i3's will be more than adequate for school, web, browsing, engineering programs and light gaming. i5 will possibly run some multithreaded stuff more quickly. i7, more so.

 

[Barty1884]

It's a great CPU, no doubt about it. It's one of the 'ideal' gaming CPUs with 4 true cores and a healthy clock speed.

It's also good for some 'hobby' level editing & similar. If you edit, render etc (anything that can utilize 4+ cores effectively) at a professional, 24/7 level, an i7 is the better bet.

The 4690 is also locked, meaning no over locking, but does have a 'K' variant that allows ovrclocking (with an appropriate motherboard. it has also been superseded by the i5-6600 (and 6600k) Skylake CPUs, but it's still a very, very strong chip.

 

[SnowMare]

It's a fine CPU, but it's also 3 years old. If you're building a new computer right now, I would instead go for an Intel 6xxx CPU, such as the Core i3 6100 or i5 6500.

i3 is 2 core, 4 thread
i5 is 4 core, 4 thread
i7 is 4 core, 8 thread

i3's will be more than adequate for school, web, browsing, engineering programs and light gaming. i5 will possibly run some multithreaded stuff more quickly. i7, more so.

ya i know its old but the 4590 outperforms many of the 6000+ cpus. i went to cpu boss and the 4590 outperforms the 6500

 

[SnowMare]

It's a great CPU, no doubt about it. It's one of the 'ideal' gaming CPUs with 4 true cores and a healthy clock speed.

It's also good for some 'hobby' level editing & similar. If you edit, render etc (anything that can utilize 4+ cores effectively) at a professional, 24/7 level, an i7 is the better bet.

The 4690 is also locked, meaning no over locking, but does have a 'K' variant that allows ovrclocking (with an appropriate motherboard. it has also been superseded by the i5-6600 (and 6600k) Skylake CPUs, but it's still a very, very strong chip.

with a rx 470 can u play bf4 with 50+ fps in 1080p?

 

[hdgaming]

the i5 4590 and rx 470 will play BF4 easily on 50+ fps at 1080p. it's a great combo

 

[Ecky]

CPU Boss is a terrible site. The i5 4590 does not outperform the 6500. It has a 100mhz clockspeed advantage, but Skylake is on average ~10% faster per clock.

Some examples of it beating the faster 4670K:

Go with Skylake, not Haswell.

 

[SnowMare]

CPU Boss is a terrible site. The i5 4590 does not outperform the 6500. It has a 100mhz clockspeed advantage, but Skylake is on average ~10% faster per clock.

Some examples of it beating the faster 4670K:

Go with Skylake, not Haswell.

cpu bosses F***ed my entire setu, i compared it with everything else fak

 

[SnowMare]

according to newegg, i will be charged up to a .25 percent restocking fee so its gana be 50+ dollars if i return to buy a lga 1151 set. so i am stuck with the 4590. is it too bad?

 

[synphul]

It's not a terrible processor. I don't think I'd spend $50 to return it all (plus insurance etc) for skylake. The issue with a number of sites like cpu boss is they look strictly at the numbers and sometimes all they consider is the base speed. Two cpu's may appear to be 300-400mhz apart with a turbo boost speed only 100mhz apart. They also like to look at raw numbers and say well obviously 3.5 is more than 3.4ghz so it's faster with no consideration for architecture and generation ipc improvements.

It can make for some flawed results. In the future the best way to compare cpus is to try and look for benchmarks of actual applications you may want to use and if you can, compare results from a couple different sources to see if they come to the same or similar conclusion. Ie, one review site suggesting a 4460 is faster than a 6500 could be off in how they tested or made a mistake listing results. Several sites across multiple benchmarks showing a 6500 to be faster than a 4460 and it's likely more reliable.

 

[SnowMare]

It's not a terrible processor. I don't think I'd spend $50 to return it all (plus insurance etc) for skylake. The issue with a number of sites like cpu boss is they look strictly at the numbers and sometimes all they consider is the base speed. Two cpu's may appear to be 300-400mhz apart with a turbo boost speed only 100mhz apart. They also like to look at raw numbers and say well obviously 3.5 is more than 3.4ghz so it's faster with no consideration for architecture and generation ipc improvements.

It can make for some flawed results. In the future the best way to compare cpus is to try and look for benchmarks of actual applications you may want to use and if you can, compare results from a couple different sources to see if they come to the same or similar conclusion. Ie, one review site suggesting a 4460 is faster than a 6500 could be off in how they tested or made a mistake listing results. Several sites across multiple benchmarks showing a 6500 to be faster than a 4460 and it's likely more reliable.

is there a big gap between 6500 and 4590? can i upgrade the 4590 to and lga 1150 cpu 2-3 years from now? do they even make 1150 socket cpus?

 

[Ecky]

The gap is small, and I'd keep what you have. I was under the impression you hadn't bought anything yet, since you were asking if it was good.

All LGA1150 CPUs that will ever be released have already been released, but the good news is that there are still upgrade options from what you have. The i7 4790K and i7 5775c are your best bets when it's time to get something faster, and I'm sure you'll have no problem finding one when the time comes.

 

[hdgaming]

If you have the i5 4590, there is no need to return it for skylake. The difference is small, and the i5 4590 is more than capable of feeding a rx 470.
The cpu will hold you for 2-3 years no problem, the moment an i5 4590 will not be enough for gaming anymore the i5 6500 won't be either.

 

[SnowMare]

thanks lot guys i felt like i wasted all my money for crap lol.

 

[MartyW]

Thread zombie. But hey I'm replying to you from the future.

Half a dozen years later and it's still a good gaming chip. With a reasonably fast GPU (who can afford one these days?), even my old 4590 holds up reasonably well against other new machines. So fear not!


These days, if you're trying to get away with a "cheap" gaming box, the Optipex 9020 tower with an i5 plus a new power supply and video card is not a bad combination. The video card is obviously the wallet breaker these days.

 

[DSzymborski]

Thread zombie. But hey I'm replying to you from the future.

Half a dozen years later and it's still a good gaming chip. With a reasonably fast GPU (who can afford one these days?), even my old 4590 holds up reasonably well against other new machines. So fear not!


These days, if you're trying to get away with a "cheap" gaming box, the Optipex 9020 tower with an i5 plus a new power supply and video card is not a bad combination. The video card is obviously the wallet breaker these days.

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