Is there any reason to upgrade from an i5 4590 to an i7 4790K

>>384419294
is there no current gen shit better than the i7 4790k yet?

>>384419981
Theres been like two new lines of cpu's, but I'm not sure if they're any better, I just dont want to buy a new mobo that supports them.

>>384419294
what monitor do you have?

>>384419294
Only get a "k" skew if you can overclock with your motherboard.

Honestly, I'd just wait it out. A Haswell i5, even non OC models, should last you a few years longer and then upgrade to a new platform then, which would either be Zen 2 or 3 on the AMD side or ice/tiger lake on the Intel side.

My legacy i7-2600 is still kicking ass

>>384421452
nextgen will feel good
i went from an i7 930 to the i7 4790k
boy my modded Oblivion fps went from like 40-60 to a constant 60

>>384421232
1080p 144hz.
Mainly just want to make sure my 4590 wont bottleneck a 1080.

>>384421705
it wont, upgrade when you go for 2 or 4k

>>384419294
Theres no reason to use more than a phenom 2 x4 for gaming

>still using 2500k from 2011

I wonder when the next great CPU will come along. Current-gen i5s are only marginally better, and I'm to jaded to think that AMD is suddenly great again

>>384419294
the 4790k is unlocked so you can overclock it.

>>384421705
It would depend on the game, single threaded games you're probably going to be fine since we've hit a wall where single core performance is concerned, but we're increasingly seeing multithreaded games that might have issues with a 4 thread / 4 core part.

Also keep in mind that Windows 7 doesn't properly support any of the newest hardware out there so if you plan to stay with it buying up the best older part your current board will support should keep you safe to the EOL date in 2020 and possibly beyond.

>>384421692
>I still use a i7 930
>according to benchmarks its only half as fast as a 7700k
Why is CPU progression so much slower than GPU?

>>384422764
Because AMD wasn't competition

>>384422764
GPU scaling is much easier, just add more cores. While typical CPU workloads traditionally aren't nearly as parallel and Intel has been reliant on their efforts to train developers on their chips and their compiler optimizing applications for single thread performance over parallel in order to keep AMD and ARM at bay.