Question Upgrade from Pentium g3258 to i5 4690k or i7 4790k

[NerdyComputerGuy]

Hi,
I have the pentium, which processor should I upgrade to, i don't wanna buy new mobo and ram.
the i5 4690k is £95 cheaper than the i7, i am tight on money and I just use my PC for streaming / gaming, i do some video editing but with my pentium its kinda fine with cuda cores although it does stutter a little when previewing the video.
I notice that when streaming and playing ETS 2 my pc does get slow prob due to only 2 cores and hardly any threads.
In future I want to get the RTX 2060, I have a GTX 760 atm, will the 2060 bottleneck the i5 or am I good for a couple more years?

 

[SgtScream]

If you're streaming on top of gaming, you'll need the extra threads of the i7. Plus if you're spending money on an upgrade, make it count. Go for the i7. The i7 and rtx 2060 will be a powerful combo.

 

[InvalidError]

Another often much cheaper option on Haswell and older sockets is going with Xeon CPUs instead - most people either don't know about this option or forget about it, so there usually are plenty of server chips pulled from decommissioned hardware sloshing around. Most 80/90-series motherboards support up to the Xeon E3-1285v3.

 

[NerdyComputerGuy]

Another often much cheaper option on Haswell and older sockets is going with Xeon CPUs instead - most people either don't know about this option or forget about it, so there usually are plenty of server chips pulled from decommissioned hardware sloshing around. Most 80/90-series motherboards support up to the Xeon E3-1285v3.

You can't overclock an xeon though...

I found this one for about the same price as the 4690k

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Intel-Xe...034192?hash=item1a87d50490:g:NPUAAOSwFN9dvvgb

 

[SgtScream]

What motherboard do you have?

 

[NerdyComputerGuy]

What motherboard do you have?

ASROCK Z97 PRO 3

 

[SgtScream]

Yeah definitely go with the i7.

 

[InvalidError]

You can't overclock an xeon though...

Try finding a guaranteed working i7-4790k, they're usually stupid expensive when compared to similarly performing Ryzen CPUs and APUs.

Personally, I value stability 100X more than overclocking, so I'd actually consider non-overclockability as a must: I can't beat the snot out of the chip and neither could any previous owners. As an added bonus, server chips usually reside on higher quality server/workstation motherboards in controlled environments, which are additional reasons to expect those chips to still be in pretty good shape despite higher typical workload.