4690K v 4770K

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jamesd1981

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I had to upgrade the cpu on one of my computers, on balance of budget and power requirements I went a devils canyon 4690K.

My questions is should i put the 4690K into my own system in place of the 4770K ?

Looking at all the comparisons there is very little performance wise between the two processors, so is there any extra benefit from the devils canyon range other than the fact it is newer.
 
All my bios are up to date, I know a big part of the devils canyon refresh is fixing the heat problems of haswell, but are there any other new features that would make the slight offset in performance worth it ?
 
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ninjabubbles3 said:
Better overclocking
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Yes the reduced heat will make overclocking better, but just realiszed would be pointless swapping parts around because my own board is an 8 series, so no point putting a 9 series chip into an 8 series board, will just put it into the system I bought it for
 
A lot of 8 series boards work with devils canyon if you have a bios upgrade.

HT plus the larger cache of the i7 would give you a boost in heavily threaded workloads over the i5
 
It is mainly for Twitch live streaming which is ridiculously cpu intensive, way more than even video editing.

I tried it with my G3420 and it has totally unusable.

All my bios is up to date, but would be silly to put a 9 series chip into a 8 series motherboard, so I will just put it into my z97 board in place of the G3420

Thanks for your advice
 
The 4690K doesn't have better overclocking when it comes to maximum potential. They both top out about the same. The 4690K is essentially a 4770K with a 500MHz stock overclock and better thermal paste between the die and the heat spreader. Thats it. So it comes down to price.

If the 4770K is much cheaper, its a better deal.
 
If you have a 4770K already why would you want to go and get a 4690K? Surely the i7 is quite a bit faster because of the HT?
 
Okedokey said:
The 4690K doesn't have better overclocking when it comes to maximum potential. They both top out about the same. The 4690K is essentially a 4770K with a 500MHz stock overclock and better thermal paste between the die and the heat spreader. Thats it. So it comes down to price.

If the 4770K is much cheaper, its a better deal.
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Thanks Okedokey, I already have the 4770k but it is in my main pc in another room, I have bought the 4690k as an upgrade for my streaming pc as the G3258 i was running just didn`t cut it.
 
spirit said:
If you have a 4770K already why would you want to go and get a 4690K? Surely the i7 is quite a bit faster because of the HT?
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Hi Jason the 4770k is in my main pc in an another room, the 4690k is an upgrade for my streaming pc because the G3258 currently in it was unable to stream.

So I am trying to decide if I should swap parts around, but in hindsight I think what I will just do is use the system in my sig with the 4770k as the streaming pc and use the other system with the 4690k when it arrives as my main pc ?
 
Ahh I see. Well if you feel that you aren't utilising the 4770K to its full potential then yeah use it for streaming, otherwise an i5 will be fine for streaming.
 
spirit said:
Ahh I see. Well if you feel that you aren't utilising the 4770K to its full potential then yeah use it for streaming, otherwise an i5 will be fine for streaming.
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I will try both systems for streaming and see how it goes, streaming at a good level seems to be by far the most cpu intensive things you can do even my 4770k is sitting between 50-60 c when streaming a fast game like gta, will see what the stream and temps are like with the 4690k, if the stream is just as good and temps are lower I will just leave systems where they are, if 4690 struggles with temp I will swap over to the 4770
 
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