Intel i7 3770 vs Intel i5 4690k

Okay so I'm building a new computer and I currently have an i7 3770. Is it worth the money to buy the faster i5 that also allows me to over clock?

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No keep the i7 3770,

Your not going to to see much difference between the two.

Also drop the black edition WD drive and just pick up a Seagate or WD blue edition,

then drop the GTX 970 FTW+ and get the Gigabyte GTX 970 G1, better priced and has better cooler.

The only place where it would really matter is if you come across a program that uses some of the new instructions set that Haswell support but Ivy Bridge doesn't. I highly doubt you will do that.

@willre00: no not for gaming. Even chips like the I5 2500k there is no reason to upgrade to a neweflchip at this time..

Yup. I'm keeping my good old Sandy Bridge until Skylake-k comes to light.

@joseph_mach: what's skylight K?

Well should I even bother buying the Cooler Master 212 evo if I'm not gonna buy a more powerful CPU that I won't be overclocling?

All depends on how well that stock cooler is cooling the cpu if stays below 65C at full load, its ok.

Okay well I'm not building this until sometime in the summer, and the Skylake k won't be out by then right? Should I wait even more for it?

Skylake is a new Intel architecture on a 14 nm process. The "K" means that it's unlocked.

Sandy Bridge --> Ivy Bridge --> Haswell --> Broadwell --> Skylake

Broadwell is coming late for desktop, but Skylake (Broadwell's successor) is still on schedule.

If you look at the roadmap in my post above, Skylake-K should launch in Q3 2015. It's likely worth waiting for.

4690K isn't faster then 3770 lol.
You can do things with 3770 that you can't with 4690K.

@insane_metalist: All the i7 has is hyperthrrading which doesn't do much, if anything for gaming. The i5 has a higher clock speed and its unlocked so you can over clock.

@willre00: Yeah so? You can use 3770 for a lot more things then just gaming, with 3770 you can do more things at once, you can do video editing/rendering, better physics, etc. 4690K @ 4.5GHz probably gets same score as stock 3770. Higher OC isn't everything. Plus, 3770 has 8 threads unlike 4690K. It wouldn't even be an upgrade, it'd be silly to swap a good i7 for an i5.

@NVIDIATI said:

@willre00 said:

@joseph_mach: what's skylight K?

Skylake is a new Intel architecture on a 14 nm process. The "K" means that it's unlocked.

Sandy Bridge --> Ivy Bridge --> Haswell --> Broadwell --> Skylake

Broadwell is coming late for desktop, but Skylake (Broadwell's successor) is still on schedule.

We'll see how it goes. I've read in a few places that K won't be out until summer 2016, or beyond. So hopefully that Q3 of this year for Skylake sticks.

That's not entirely true. If a game / engine can take advantage of hyper-threading, you will definitely see a difference.

i7-4790K & Crysis 3 (v1.3+):

Summer 2016 would be extremely late. As far as I know, Intel has not been delayed for Skylake. The main problem for Broadwell was the transition to manufacture a 14 nm process with sufficient yields. Skylake is still on a 14 nm process, so there really isn't a reason for such a delay. I would expect it to be out before the end of this year.

@NVIDIATI: And more or less skip Broadwell? I bet they will milk broadwell for its normal round like they have done with the other processors so I expect Skylake a 9-12 months after that again...

Or do they only release Broadwell for laptops and skip the entire thing on desktop?

Heck I am not even sure that will be worth it for gaming.. The I5 2500k can surpass the stock performance of the 4690k with a overclock to 4.4ghz which really isn't hard to do (it will also keep cooler too).. Even when the 4690k is overclocked the performance difference is marginal to warrant you ever jumping ship and upgrading..

I think I'll build a new PC but keep my current provessor and wait and see what the Skylake's look like. Then I'm might buy a new CPU.

Why? If it ain't broke don't fix it.... And your talking about two different sockets..

You can still overclock the bus to change the base clock, I think.