Am I an idiot for buying an i7 4790k today and not upgrading

>>58772932
Not really.

Although you are an idiot if you don't OC that k series chip.

Nah. I have a 4790k since the day it was released and I feel like it can be relevant for 10 years. It's extremely hard to shrink the transistor nowadays so we see like +1/2% differences per year.

GPUs only give the delusion of progress because they work easily in parallel. Add more cores, more speed. That is why they are more and more expensive. They order bigger and harder to make dies.

What did you upgraded from? a i5? Matters little anyway. We're talking about the best you could get is like ~5% difference with a new equivalent.

>>58772932
I have an 4790k overclocked to 4.6GHz all cores, I don't see myself upgrading in 5-10 years unless octo-cores become really cheap and hit 5GHz all cores if OCed.
All you really need is an SSD to use as a scratch disk for shit like Photoshop.

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>>58772970
I upgraded from a pentium G3258....I fell for the meme. At least I bought a z87 motherboard though

So for something like Adobe Premiere do I want the fastest / most RAM possible or would a GPU be more important?

I'm planning on getting a 960 pro m.2 ssd for use in my pcie port as well and I'd prefer to pick between the ram or a GPU

>>58773543
Depends. If you have a decent amount of RAM, get some CUDAmeme/OpenSomething acceleration.

>>58773543

Great choice then. That little thing while a good meme for an office computer or a really poor country, it's really a stupid idea for 80% of people that care about their PC, since like 80% of what they do may benefit from an i7 or at least i5. I'm not sure about that software but for what I do I rarely use more than 6 to 7GB so I go with 8GB, but, with the fastest possible I can find.

I'd rather avoid 16 or 32 and get something faster with the saved money.