Not much of a upgrade with 4790k!

[shawn1971]

So with the up and coming Xpac from World of Warcraft and the new system requirements I decided to up grade a few things. I went from a 4690k oc'd at 4.6 to to a 4790k which was only able to OC to 4.7 @ 1.3! Which didn't last long! I tried different settings and found 4.5 @ 1.25v and 4.7 @ 1.30v was able to start up comp and run WoW with out any issue at first but ended up getting a blue screen @ 4.7/1.30v, so 4.5 @ 1.25v is where I'm at, sk it looks like I wasted almost $400 for nothing! Beside going from a 1080p to a 1440 Monitor and from a GTX 960 to a 1070 it ain't much of a upgrade!

 

[sizzling]

The advantage of the 4790k over the 4690k was never higher overclocking, they overclock about the same. The advantage is the 4790k has twice as many threads due to hyperthreading.

 

[herrwizo]

Exactly. If your game can use additional threads, you will benefit greatly. If not, zero difference.

 

[hotaru251]

sad aprt is not many games (including WoW) use HT.

WoW has always been a CPU heavy game. why a higher speed i3 could play it at times better than a i5.

 

[shawn1971]

Yeah World of Warcraft is CPU heavy and uses at most 2 cores. The new recommended CPU for the up and coming Xpac is a i 7 4770 so I figured the 4790k would be a good choice but was hoping to get atleast a 4.8 oc out of it! I've bumped it down to 4.6 @ 1.30v and seems to be running fine so time will tell.

 

[hotaru251]

http://cpu.userbenchmark.com/Compare/Intel-Core-i7-4790K-vs-Intel-Core-i3-8350K/2384vs3935

compares the 4th gen i7 to the 8th gen i3.


it shows the perks of each one (overall i3 is betetr for gaming and i7 for stuff like Photoshop, streaming, etc)


OC is iffy. the same CPU can have varied resutls between 2 units.

 

[shawn1971]

Yeah I'm looking now and looks lime I'll be selling my 4690k and 4790k along with both of my 1150 Motherboards and my 32g of ram and use that to go Coffee Lake!

 

[logainofhades]

WoW actually recommends an i7 4770 for BFA, so your idea wasn't a bad one. Also 1440p tends to move some of the gaming load to the GPU. I run 1440p with a 4.5ghz 6700k, and a GTX 980ti, so not vastly different from what you now have. I run view distance at 7, with shadows on low and SSAO disabled. I have 0 problems anywhere. Other than the higher clocks it can reach, I don't see coffee lake doing you much of a benefit, over what you have now.

 

[shawn1971]

Playing around I was able to get my 4790k at a stable 4.7/1.270v using the Intel Extreme Tuning Utility then went into bios and manually set it to that
Running a 5 min stress test it passed so I got a extra 1GHz out of the i7 from the 4.6 I was able to get out of my i5 so while I didn't win the silicone lottery and get 5.0 I'm happy. I do have a Acer Predator 27" ISP Monitor coming so I'll get that 144hz and 1444p