Is The Intel Core i7 4790K Good For Gaming?

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Hello everybody. I currently have an alright CPU in my build which is the Intel Core i5 4440 but apparently according to some forums, it's a bad processor for games but it's mainly good and useful towards editing on applications such as Sony Vegas, FL Studio etc...

So yeah. I'm wondering whether I should get an i7 4790K for Christmas and then add it to my build.

Thanks in advance, peace!

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yes.

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โพสต์ดั้งเดิมโดย HighWayne:

yes.

Okay, thank you. Can I ask you a question?

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โพสต์ดั้งเดิมโดย 🎅Psyche Claus🎁:

โพสต์ดั้งเดิมโดย HighWayne:

yes.

Okay, thank you. Can I ask you a question?

Sure.

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The i5-4440 is still great for gaming. The i7-4790K can overclock with a Z97 motherboard and is better for streaming, heavy multi-tasking and video/audio rendering. If you feel like you need more performance then get a better graphics card. The 4790 will barely increase gaming performance in a small number of games. It would be better for an SLI setup. Even older CPUs like the i5-3570K and i5-2500K still do pretty good at gaming. It's almost always the GPU that needs upgrading. If you still want the i7 and don't have a Z motherboard then get the i7-4790 without the K. The K CPUs are unlocked for overclocking on Z mobos and would also need a better CPU cooler.

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โพสต์ดั้งเดิมโดย green:

The i5-4440 is still great for gaming. The i7-4790K can overclock with a Z97 motherboard and is better for streaming, heavy multi-tasking and video/audio rendering. If you feel like you need more performance then get a better graphics card. The 4790 will barely increase gaming performance in a small number of games. It would be better for an SLI setup. Even older CPUs like the i5-3570K and i5-2500K still do pretty good at gaming. It's almost always the GPU that needs upgrading.

Thanks for the advice but I've gotta disagree at one point. If you do deep research into the Intel Core i5 4440, it's actually different to many other i5's. An i5 in general is pretty good for gaming but games are also demanding more on the CPU now. Apparently, with some deep research, some of the things used in my exact CPU (the Intel Core i5 4440) are different to the things used in other i5's which makes the 4440 weak for gaming compared to many other i5's out there.

Apparently it is very good for rendering videos, editing videos and so on. But lacks on the gaming side of things.

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There is a 10 fps difference in Fallout 4 from the i5-4690K to the i7-4790K. You want to spend about $300 to gain around 10 fps in certain games. There is probably only about a 3 to 5 fps difference between the 4440 and the 4690K if even that unless the K CPU is overclocked and then there would be another 5 or 9 fps difference. That kind of money could buy a GTX 970 which would give much more fps increase if your current card is something older/weaker.

{ลิงก์ถูกลบแล้ว}http://www.gamersnexus.net/game-bench/2182-fallout-4-cpu-benchmark-huge-performance-difference

The i7 is better for rendering and the i5 isn't much slower at it. You have that backwards.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iRezsJ13OFw

This is why there are gaming PCs with Z97 or Z170 chipset and workstation PCs with workstation motherboards that can take dual Xeon CPUs or X99 which is a mix of both with six to eight core I7 CPUs and up to 4-way SLI.

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โพสต์ดั้งเดิมโดย green:

There is a 10 fps difference in Fallout 4 from the i5-4690K to the i7-4790K. You want to spend about $300 to gain around 10 fps in certain games. There is probably only about a 3 to 5 fps difference between the 4440 and the 4690K if even that unless the K CPU is overclocked and then there would be another 5 or 9 fps difference. That kind of money could buy a GTX 970 which would give much more fps increase if your current card is something older/weaker.

http://www.gamersnexus.net/game-bench/2182-fallout-4-cpu-benchmark-huge-performance-difference

The i7 is better for rendering and the i5 isn't much slower at it. You have that backwards.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iRezsJ13OFw

Well I already have a R9 280X GPU which is perfect for gaming. And, when my brother upgraded HIS CPU to an i7 4790K, without upgrading his GPU, he was able to run GTA V on Ultra at 55-60FPS and can still now, but before he could only run GTA V on High Settings with about 30-40FPS...

And no, I haven't got them mixed up. If you actually read what I was saying more properly, maybe you would've understood. My specific CPU (the 4440) has something different about it, I wasn't talking about all the i5's in general, just my one. Plus, games are demanding so much more out of CPU's aswell now.

I also checked the Task Manager whilst playing GTA V on High Settings and I had it in Windowed Mode so that I could see what was at the highest percentage, oh guess what?

CPU - 70-99%

EDIT - When the CPU goes to about 99% on the Task Manager, the FPS starts to lower.

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The 280X is your performance bottleneck in GTA V. The 970 or 390 would be better or even higher to Fury X and 980 Ti. I could see if your brother upgraded from some AMD CPU to Intel then there is a noticeable performance difference not going from modern i5 to i7. That i7 is an i5 with hyper-threading and a little more cache.

I love it when someone asks for help and then acts like they are an expert and treats the helper like an idiot. lol

I won't be responding to you anymore. :)

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โพสต์ดั้งเดิมโดย green:

The 280X is your performance bottleneck in GTA V. The 970 or 390 would be better or even higher to Fury X and 980 Ti. I love it when someone asks for help and then acts like they are an expert and treats the helper like an idiot. lol

I won't be responding to you anymore. :)

Fine, don't respond to me. Plus, you must of read it in a different way to me or something, I wasn't even stating you were an idiot, you had some pretty good points in some way, I agree with upgrading my GPU in the future and that most instances with FPS drops are to do with GPU's, but for my case it's not, it's the CPU.

I do love it when people think they're the expert but come out with things that they make out to look true when they aren't.

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โพสต์ดั้งเดิมโดย green:

The 280X is your performance bottleneck in GTA V. The 970 or 390 would be better or even higher to Fury X and 980 Ti. I could see if your brother upgraded from some AMD CPU to Intel then there is a noticeable performance difference not going from modern i5 to i7. That i7 is an i5 with hyper-threading and a little more cache.

I love it when someone asks for help and then acts like they are an expert and treats the helper like an idiot. lol

I won't be responding to you anymore. :)

Oh yeah. Even though you probably won't respond, I searched up gameplays with the GTX 970 and the i5 4440.

Here's one:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DBYNzucZ4A0&ab_channel=ProCriticsTeamCZ

As you can see, you see a bit of FPS lags/spikes, fluxient FPS (FPS constantly jumping from one amount of FPS to the other, which is what's happening to me at the moment) and just some FPS drops in general. Infact, it runs even worse with that GPU then the GPU that I have at the current moment.

I think you got it mixed up there buddy. If I do upgrade my GPU to an GTX 970 or something, the CPU will bottleneck and it will be too slow to catch up. I have expierienced this myself with another CPU and GPU and it's a huge pain to deal with :)

Thanks for the advice anyway.

EDIT:

Here's one with the i7 4790K and the R9 280X - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lWTYlcFdF4Y&ab_channel=slackbguser

Oh, the FPS is much more stable and there is much less FPS drops.

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Yesss, much better than the i5

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โพสต์ดั้งเดิมโดย Apoostrophe:

Yesss, much better than the i5

Yep. That 'green' person was obviously very wrong. It's very irritating when people get things wrong but say they're right.

I've been in a bottlenecking issue already with a previous CPU and GPU. It's a huge hassle so I think that getting this i7 4790K will improve my performance much more than what that 'green' person said.