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Great! Looking forward to the next comparison. Only thing missing from this one is Cyberpunk, just because it really stresses a system. Control is very close on GPU usage but not so much on CPU.
@@tyrkukulkan Couldn't test this CPU in Cyberpunk unfortunately, but I do know that it should struggle a bit in that title at stock, kind of like it does in Watch Dogs Legion.
@@tyrkukulkan I test Cyberpunk on my overclocked 4790k @4,6 Ghz, and it runs .. okay. I tested it at Maxed Settings without RT or DLSS, and it has an avg. of 60 Fps, but the 1% and 0.1% Frametimes are in the 30s and that's something you can feel. I was up to 1440p in the CPU bottleneck with my 3090 (At 1440p : Only 37 % of the bench time, the GPU was the limiting factor according to CapframeX).
@@snowflakecuntreeman3947 Depends on the game. I replaced my 1660 Super with a RTX 3070 and went from about 90 fps avarage in Tomb Raider to about 180 fps avarage. In CSGO the boost was maybe 25% fps at best. (4970k @ 4,7GHZ)
Im currently rocking this i7-4790 paired with a GTX 1080ti and i must say u can hit this combo with anything and will run it at medium high settings like a charm ,in some games where 6 cores are utilized u may see some chops and hit but lowing the resolutiong is the solution.Great CPU for Its era and still capable for gaming in 2023 , would recommend for low budget gamers in need of a Low cost PC
Good job. I don’t understand why almost nobody test this in 4K where cpu i less important than GPU. I have 4690k and gonna buy something like rtx 4070 and used i7 4gen then gonna compare it in 4K vs i5.
thumbs down really??? you pair this cpu with a suited up 980ti aka 1070??? get a 1080ti and you will get easy 60 fps on 1080p in 90%+ of games the NON K version is useless get ONLY the 4790K
Interesting. Though this CPU already manages to achieve well over 60 FPS in majority of these games so I'm not sure what you're upset about. Do you mind telling me what the performance would be like in every game that I tested in this video, if I used a i7-4790k and a GTX 1080 Ti instead?
My old Intel setup was the 4790k, Z97, M.2 SSD, 16gb (2x8GB) ram, gtx 980 and it was a vg build in it’s day ….and still is to some degree by looking at this video. Love your work Adam 😇👍. Cheers buddy 🍻
That was a massively good setup back in 2016... so good i bet it holds its own in 2023, given GTX980 was comparable to Rx580 when it came out (maybe the AMD card now pulls ahead due to driver optimizatión) so i do think it still has some life left
To be honest it's best CPU for upcoming 6 to 7 years because most of us only do gaming or little bit of other programs use on our PCs so it's fine no need to spend extra money on insanely high price PC parts
My 4790k has been OC’d to 4.8 for 5 years now. It’s been great and still plays most of things on high. But, I’m ready for 4k gaming and have a 12700k on the way. Hope I get the same life on this chip.
Good video. I put a 3060ti (Evga 2 fan, single 8pin budget model) on an old Dell tower with the i7 4790, 16gb ram and SSD (Changed the psu) and gave it to a family member. I was surprised what it can still do. Solid 1080 gaming and some 1440p too.
the 3060ti ran well with the 4790?? If thats the case ill buy one. Looking to upgrade my current system but was wondering if the 4790 was even worth it as a cpu
@@domsims7826 my frames are not very high even with low settings and my cpu usage ranges 30 to 60 percent with gpu ranging from 30 to 50 ish aswell, typically from my understanding a balanced build should have more gpu than cpu pretty much all the time but mine stays very even and I find for such low usage it gets kinda hot like up to 80°c if I have everything maxxed but it still won't pass like 60% usage. I think either my cpu is bottlenecked or my pc isn't getting enough power out of the 500w psu my used pc's case came with. Complete build: Cpu (I7-4790) Gpu (Gtx 1660S 6G) Mobo (GA Z97N wifi) Cpu cooler (zalman) can't actually buy it anymore and have a new one coming Ram (16Gb Crucial 1600mhz ddr3) (1 TB Crucial SSD) Can anyone maybe even mention any ideas that could be the issue?
@@KaiMagee19 Hey, I'm having the same issue right now. switched from a 1060 6gb to a Rx 5700 xt and its severely underperforming. did you manage to fix your issue?
@@virtual-adam I just did the same thing for a friend, he's absolutely loving it, i guess the extra single core performance plus the added threads really do make a difference
@@joey_f4ke238 Its a great upgrade, he must be well pleased. Hitman 2016 runs almost perfect now, was very stuttery on my i5. I mainly got it to run Forza 4. Also noticed a few other games I thought were ok on the i5 also have a big improvement. Yea the speed and extra four threads are a real help with newer games.
Bought an entire new PC in 2014 Litterally waited for the i7 4790k release date, took it day one with a whole new PC (Fractal R4, etc) NINE F'CKIN YEARS and it's still there doing it's job very nicely Best computer bet I've ever made Remembering my 8800, 780GTX... Way too expensive... But now that consoles are bottlenecking evolution, I guess any 2060 will do the job for years :D
I also using this i7-4790 CPU with MSI GTX 1070 Gaming X 8GB GPU with 16.0 GB DDR3 RAM with 256 GB SSD (OS) and 1 TB SSD (Games) and I can play all games like a charm.
2 years ago I built my daughter an i7 4790 system w/16GB DDR3 1600, 120GB SSD, 1TB HDD, GTX 1060 6GB. She absolutely loved it and it played more than a few of her games in 4K as it was hooked up to the living room 4K.
@@shoot_the_glass5654 Just an average one. Trying his best with what he has. If I had enough to build a 10600 I would have. I'd say K but she doesn't need it. She's so young, she needs stability in her platform. I'll teach her OC and repair later, when she can absorb it well. Having a hard enough time with the ESD and cleanliness part right now lol!
@@RATechYT I might upgrade to a 5800x3d in the future, but for now I really have no problems in any game, 3400 memory at cl14 makes it a monster, wanted to upgrade to 3800x before but I saw some benchmarks and at stock is quite worse than my 2700x overclocked and one of my friends has a 3600x and its overclocking capabilities are awful, he can't even get 4100 stable so I guess second ryzen generation didn't had the best chips or at least ryzen 5 ones.
The i7-4790 is part of the reason that Microsoft tries to keep people from using older PCs with Windows 11 to help Intel sell newer processors. My i7-4790 is still rocking and still gaming just fine.
Still a very capable chip. I have a system that I built for fun recently with a 4790, and 1660 Super. It provides a more than comfortable 1080p 60 fps gaming experience on all the games I play, and some games it even manages 1440p 60fps. I would consider this chip the bare minimum for a "gaming PC" in 2024, and as a cheap but solid entry level CPU, it's hard to go wrong here.
Good video 👍 Still a decent chip for gaming the i7 4790. Considering you can get them for under $50 now its great value for a budget build. Shame Windows 11 wont support them as these chips would have so many more years of service left. But thats not good for business eh!
@@jgm113 Yea there are, but its a pain to keep doing as MS keep messing the install up on unsupported hardware. Would not want it on my work machine in case I had an issue and had to spend all day fixing it.
@@jgm113 I've seen a video where the guy said the install gets messed up every now and then and needs a fix? Think i'll stick with Windows 10, I only updated to it a few days ago from Windows 7 ;) Takes a while for good stability anyway.
Been looking forward to this. Got a family member an i7 4790K as a gift upgrade from an i5 4590 to go with their 5600XT (1070 equivalent). The extra 4 threads from HT do make a difference.
@@tyrkukulkan i have currently same i5 4590 with 12gb ram + Nvidia 1050ti 5gb and 256ssd+500gb hdd i play Pubg Pc on it with 1280x1024@75Hz and it gives 60-70 average fps but in combat situation it starts stuttering so by switching to i7 4790 how much fps gain will i get?
Nice, I'm vibing with a 6 core 12 thread Ivy Bridge Xeon 1650 v2 overclocked to 4.5 ghz with 48gh of quad channel DDR3. I'd expect similar numbers to my own system with maybe better 1% lows. Don't forget to disable the core mitigations with inspectre!
Oh, completely forgot to mention that the patches were actually disabled, though even with them enabled I doubt it would make a noticeable difference since even the i3-7100 performs very similarly regardless of whether the patches are enabled or disabled. The frame rate difference doesn't exceed 5-7% on the dual core.
This CPU really looks like it was a great deal back in 2014. $300 for 8 years of gaming is basically just $38/year. As the owner of a Ryzen 1600AF at 3.8ghz, it will be interesting to see how it compares to the Ryzen 2600. Also, NFS Heat is unplayable for me. There are textures failing to load despite the game being installed on an SSD and there are major stutters and audio delay. I heard there's some user.cfg file tweak that might fix it, so I'll definitely try that at some point. Are you also using that user.cfg tweak or does the game just run fine by default?
NFS Heat runs fine for me, never had any of those issues. I'd try repairing the in-game files, if that doesn't work then reinstalling the game completely might fix the problem.
first generation of Ryzen was really too early for them, you kinda are like an early adopter, and 1600f was still 1600 with just a bit better oc capability and better ram support, ryzen+ was a huge step for them, resolved most of the problems, latency was hugely improved, ryzen 2 was when they added more cores in high end and improved latency even more but wasn't something huge, ryzen 3 was again a huge jump and ryzen 4 might be more like ryzen 2, more cores and a bit better latency thanks to ddr5, also 6 cores kinda becomes obsolete already, as crazy as it sounds. I sold my 2600x for 2700x and had 0 problems till now.
@@thepirate4095 The 1600AF is not 1st gen, it's Zen+ (2nd gen) with the naming being 1xxx because the chip was defective and did not meet AMD's standards for Zen+ (frequency targets, etc). It's essentially a slightly cut down 2600.
@@thepirate4095 The 1600AF is a badly-binned 2600. I can't OC it past 3.8ghz because it needs 1.3v to even do that. Most 2600s would do 4ghz easily with about the same voltage. It's Zen+, not 1st gen Zen like the original 1600 "AE". I only paid $96 new for it so I'm extremely happy with it and will probably run it for at least another 5 years as it does everything I want from a CPU in terms of video editing and gaming.
yay new vid :) i7 4790 can be decent budget option, for 1080p i think rtx 2060/gtx 1070 would be absolute maximum i would pair it with, otherwise i would start looking at zen 1 or zen + offerings such as r5 1600 or 2600. I personally upgraded from my 4790k to 3700x back in 2019 and even though i was limited by my gtx 1070 back when i was using it, i definitely felt frametime improvements with new cpu, the overall user experience havent changed much though. However non k 4790 definitely starts to show its age and while it may be OK option for budget builders i would recommend looking for newer stuff.
I don't agree about "maximum". I had GTX 1070 pair with it and I replaced it with RTX 2070 Super. There was still a huge performance boost and many games still have almost 100% gpu utilization (95-98%) with this combo. There is some bottleneck but the cpu benefits a lot from higher end gpus as long as you have DDR3 ram overclocked above 2000 Mhz. I think you could go as far as RTX 3070 if you want to play with Ray Tracing enabled. Anything above that would be a mistake though.
@@Harzexe What games do you play? Also raytracing has even higher cpu load so your RT point is absolutely not true. 4790k wont hold 60fps in watch dogs legion, far cry 6, cyberpunk, MFS, depending on settings. When you are hitting bellow 60 due to weak cpu just dont bother and upgrade. Dropping 3070 on it would be absolute waste of money, even budget i5 12400 would mop the floor with it for ~300$ ram/cpu/mobo included.
@@h1tzzYT in most games I have more than 100 fps. Far Cry 5 holds above 60 fps. Doom Eternal 100-200 fps. Witcher 3 next gen on DX11 between 55-115 fps. Battlefield 1 works very good with DX11 as well. Fortnite DX11: 100-144 fps on high settings. Fortnite DX12 with RTX on medium about 60-90 fps. CS:GO above 200 fps.
Just as I said. There is some bottleneck for sure but I'm not hitting a wall yet even if newer processors can do a much better job. My point is that 4790K (4.5 Ghz with 2400 Mhz DDR3) can still deliver very good framerate.
@@Harzexe "My point is that 4790K (4.5 Ghz with 2400 Mhz DDR3) can still deliver very good framerate." No it cannot, at least not in all games. My point was that if you have rtx 2060 and up, especially 3070 money, you should have upgraded 4790k long time ago. I could still get behind haswell HEDTs though. 5960x can still be good performer, but 4790k? nah. it doesnt have enough to deliver smooth 60 in all games, thats obsolete in my book.
My grandparents have a dell desktop from 2015 with an i5 4460, 8 GB DDR3 1600 MHz and a 1 TB HDD and its been super slow. They won’t let me build them a new one and they said they don’t mind how slow it is but I went ahead and told them I’m upgrading it anyway so I got a used i7 4790, 16 GB DDR3 1600 MHz and a 500 GB SSD which should make their computer much faster.
Just ordered a used i7 4790K today to go into my dedicated Zwift machine to replace an i5 4670K. I have a GTX 1070 that I will also be installing soon, so I figured the i7 would better compliment the GTX 1070. Good to see it'll do more than just run Zwift.
anything that can be overclocked lasts more, I had a 3570k and overclocked was like 30% better than on stock which is huge, no ht was its only problem, the biggest one. 3770k could go to 4.4-4.8 if I'm not mistaken, depending on silicon luck, you are stuck at 3.4 all cores and 3.9 turbo.
@@ZeR0goth yea, never go cheap with the mother boards, my b450 tomahawk will last me with ease 4-5 years more and has great vrms, I can upgrade even to 5950x without a problem but probably I will go with 5800x3d in the future
@@ZeR0goth well you have to change the entire pc in the future anyway, you could go with intel now, even a i3 would kill 3770 and you have huge upgrade windows in the future
Have anyone tried making this chip as a dedicated streaming PC, running OBS. I am running OBS 30, 1080p 60fps 8000bitrate. hardware - 1080p 60fps webcam, elgato HD60X both requires USB3.0 RTX2060 and i5-4590 and its running 100% CPU :( I was wondering if an i7 4790 will run better? Maybe lower the process by 15-20%?
now its 8/2024 - my pc with i7-4790 is running for years without any major problems (well my motherboard battery is empty but this takes only effect if i turn the pc completely off), AMD Radeon R9 390, 16GB RAM, is running well, some games are still playable like sc2 i mostly play in low/medium settings, but thats no problem 4 me...i am no hardcore player so for all other things i do can't say any negative thing about my system. thanks for you video * cheers* (i got a second pc as a backup :D)
I still own my 4790K because it is still a capable CPU for doing multimedia tasks like ripping DVDs with handbrake because of the high clock speeds on all cores.
it was my daily driver up until a few weeks ago, but do NOT buy one right now, especially not a K model. get an I5 12600k if you can afford it, but there are better budget options.
my current rig is a: i7 4790k, 32gig ram, asrock z97 fatality, 3x 4tb sata HDD, 1070GTX, just finished playing Jedi: Fallen Order in high graphics, rocked like a champion and will continue to do so. I use a be quiet! Dark Rock 4 CPU Air Cooler. Idle temp 24C and max peak temp 58C~60C. If I can play newer games that averages around 55~60fps, I am good. I mostly dota and csgo any ways. Also, don't know why but you talk like a robot some what. 😂
GTX 760? That's my old GPU...I put a 1060 on my 4790K, for 1080p/75hz gameplay is fine but some games do push you to get an upgrade even at that refresh rate. Overclock and high speed memories makes a huge difference, you might be surprise when compare later to this lower 4790 none K. I OC my 1600Mhz to 2000Mhz going from 1.5v to 1.6v and CL9 to CL11 (11-11-11-33), give it a try and see if it boots correctly... 2133mhz wasn't possible for me (4+4+8+8 sticks made it harder I guess).
My I7 4790k is getting tired. Beat to death gaming for years 6+ hours a night, now I edit youtube videos and it cant keep up. Time to retire the old girl. She has been good.
I'm still using my i7-4790k, that I bought, when I built my computer, back in 2015. I upgraded my GPU from a GTX 980, to a RTX 2080 a few years back, and I still don't feel the need to upgrade the CPU, as every new game still runs great in 1440p.
@@user-cn3vq9vr3u same ... i7 4790k + RTX 3060 since Dec 2014. Changed some GPUs (970 SLI -> 980TI -> 1070TI -> RTX 3060) and RMA'ed a seasonic PSU. Still working pretty well in 2023. I game at 1440p.
I have an Asus b85m- v plus board with 4th gen celeron and 16 GB ram. I'm all set to get an i7-4790 (with or without k). What is the cheapest GPU that I could pair, if ever my son needs it? He is the one udong the PC most of the time. Also, do I need to upgrade the power supply? Currently it is using a 450w power supply.
You could get a GTX 1070, costs around $100 nowadays. If you want to go cheaper - the RX 580 is also a good option that you can find below $70 on eBay, though it's also going to perform a bit worse in most cases. I guess it depends on how old your PSU is and whether it's a good unit. Also keep in mind that 450w is going to be enough for the GTX 1070, but with the RX 580 it will be stretching it.
I built a i7-4790 Optiplex 16gb, 500gb ssd with 560 gpu and 400w power supply for under $175. Bought everything off ebay. Plays all games really well that my sons have tried. Our neighbors kids have built $500-$600 gaming pcs that don't run as well, and their cabinets are much cheaper quality. The Optiplex 7020/9020 tower and even the 7010/9010 with i7 3770 have to be best deal around for budget gaming.
If i paired it with 32 GB DDR3 , 500 GB SSD and GTX 1650 ddr6 , Will it be good to rub Photoshop , ilustrator , a little of web desing and for My studies in the university? I AM studying enginering systems
I use a 6700xt with my 4790 after ditching my 1070, can even run ultra settings on starfield average 65 on 1080p. CPU temperature is cooled by a 360 AIO constant at 40 degree celsius, GPU temperature is 60 degree Celsius in a full tower with 4 p12 fans.
Bf5 on i7 4790 is choppy as hell. Fps is good, frametime is horrible. I had exactly the same setup. Locking fps at 95 gave me 9.5ms of frametime, but it was still dipping to mid 70s.Same gpu on ryzen 5 3600 never go below 120fps with frametime around 6-7ms.with i7 even gsync didn't help
I was using the i7-4820k and GTX 1060 3GB til I lost access to my desktop about 20 months ago. Was able to emulate all game consoles except the PS3, 360 and Switch. And could play all my games just fine.
im also running the 4790, gtx 1070 and 24gigs of ram at 1866mhz and i kust say it handles pretty kuch anything i throw at it quite well i think ill wait abit before i think of upgrading to a ryzen 5 5600x or something
It does support a 4790, the only problem is that motherboard doesn't have a VRM heatsink so it's going to get quite warm under load, so you might want to cool that area with a fan.
I man, i have a i7 4770 non k with 16gb 1600 ddr3 ram... i want to buy rx 6600 or xt or rtx 2060 /3060...is possibile to reach a playable esperience in 1080 60fps (Like a console) or the performance are worse than this video becausw The 1070 is lower than The gpus that i have mentioned? e big up man 💪
good vid, i still daily drive a gaming PC 4790k but i didn't overclock it due to tha motherboard i'm using which it's not tha best for any overclocking (MSI Z97-S01 [Guard Pro]) but it's paired with a GTX 1080Ti along with G.Skill Ares 16gb 2400MHZ (used to be Kingston HyperX Fury but due to it not lettin me use XMP because tha motherboard i have for it didn't have XMP support for Kingston HyperX Fury, so i went with a G.skill Ares which has a much better XMP support compared to Kingston HyperX Fury and wow i saw a much better result just by tha ram swap to a much higher clocked and different ram kit with XMP) and TBH tha GTX 1070 is holding it back badly along with tha ram kit which i'm a former user of Kingston HyperX Fury who switched to G.Skill Ares 2400mhz 16GB kit u should consider gettin' 2400mhz Kit of DDR3 for either G.Skill Ares or G.skill Ripjaws X for 2400mhz 16gb kit i saw some new condition on Newegg i also have a Ryzen 5 3600 as a dedicated streaming PC paired with now a RTX 2060 KO (used to be GTX 1070 but didn't have as good as a Nvenc encoder compared to Touring based GPUs but my second hand GTX 1070 will be used in tha future on my dedicated editing Software rig which has a GTX 560 Ti oof)
i'm running the 4790K with Windows 11 and a 3060Ti, 4k 60hz monitor - i'll be running this well into 2023 as no game i run does so less than 60 frames in 4k
I had a 4790k I OC'd to 4.8, that baby carried me all the way until last year at 1440p I finally upgraded to a 12600k, the upgrade was well worth it, but you cant count the 4790k out
Got a cousin of the i7, the i5 4570 4c/4t at 3.2 Ghz paired with a r9 380, h81m, 8gb ddr3 1600 cl8 and a 250gb samsung 850 evo ssd and finally after years i'm going for a r5 5600, rx 6600, b550, 512 gb 980 from samsung and 16gb ddr4 3200 cl16. Tomorrow the cpu arrives so can't wait to test the difference
I got pretty much the same system (1070 8GB and 16 GB ram) paired with an e3-1270 v3 (very close to the 4790k) instead. Does everything I need and want, I probably will keep it for sometime! :)
still playing with the 4790k, even bf5 wasnt that bad (around 70 fps and prety smooth), got problems with bf2042 (around 30fps on big maps), but yea am not gona change it for just 1 game who requir more than what it is.
Good to have u back! I have an i7 4770k@4,3 GHz + EVGA GTX 1070 SC on my sole mining rig, so I can game on it while mining. Death Stranding and PUBG being the games I play, on 1440p. Mainboard is a crappy Asus H87M Plus + 16GB of DDR3 1600 CL9. PUBG runs fine at ~90 fps and DS stays near the 60 fps about most of the time, only sometimes dipping to 40+ fps..
Control is the only game where the GTX 1070 is the bottleneck without a question. In Apex Legends there are areas when it gets GPU bound, but in the rest of the games the i7 is the bottleneck. Personally I wouldn't go past GTX 1080 with this processor, unless you like to play using max settings at a resolution higher than 1080p.
i have similar specs to what you posted here, but my psu barely has 600w. How can i check if my psu is bottlenecked? any software suggestions or there's simply no way to tell.
I doubt it's the power supply. Do you have performance issues or crashes? Because as you can see at 7:57, while gaming this build doesn't consume more than 300W while gaming. If everything was under full load, it probably wouldn't exceed 400W.
@@RATechYT i see, however i have a tower with 3 led fans constantly up, a custom CPU cooler, 1 hdd and 1 sata ssd + 1080. Would my 600w psu support with these an 9900k with 32 gb? or can the power consumption be monitored by software or just that type of gizmo you have there?
@@pettym3 With a 9900k and a GTX 1080 with 32 GB of RAM your total system power consumption shouldn't exceed 450-500W. You can monitor power consumption of certain components by using HWINFO. You can also use sites such as PCPartPicker to have an idea of how much your rig is going to consume.
I think baseline for this kinds of test shoud be average and 1% lows as close to 60 fps as you can. Most low budget gamers still rock a 60 hz monitor from there moms workplace so theres no need go for more.
@@RATechYT what are you talking about? If a monitor has 60 hz it means it caps at 60 fps. Even if you get a million fps it will still only show at 60 fps/hz. It can even hurt performance /experiences getting screentearing etc
@@martinlinden4129 It's because of the input latency being much lower, you're getting a much more responsive experience with 200 FPS compared to just 60 FPS, even if you're not able to see those 200 frames.
Apex Legends and Control are the only two games where we're GPU bound. In the rest of the games the CPU barely manages to push the graphics card to even 80% utilization, even at at high settings in some cases, so upgrading to a better GPU won't help much in most scenarios.
@@stzokev I'd rather make a conclusion from real world tests than rely on calculators like this one that are vague. The i7-4790 is clearly the bottleneck here in most instances, but of course it really depends on your use case.
@@RATechYT Sure use case is the key. Not sure whether you made a new video with unlocked 4790k, if you haven't you can make one with a more up to date video card on those same games and compare the FPS difference. It would be a nice 4790 in 2023 video :)
you could also go with intel if you build a new pc, motherboards can be more expensive but the new cpu's are kinda hot and beat ryzen in single thread in most games if not all of them.
I have one of my rigs with a 4790 16gig ram along with a 1070 founders edition paired with 1TB Adata ssd and it rocks everything just fine even my occulus rift 2. Never played a game on medium or low settings and all runs smooth . Its not even fancy as its a dell 9020 switched to new case via conversion kit. If your on a budget its just an outstanding price to performance deal pairing the 4790 with a 1070
I have an i5 4690 (non-k), 16GB DDR3 Hyper-X Savage 1600 Mhz, and I recently upgraded from GTX1050 Ti 4GB GDDR5 to RTX 3060Ti 12GB (although PCIe 4.0, the AARock H97m Pro4 doesn’t support that feature). It’s 2023 now, and my question is that will I see some significant performance increase if I upgrade i7 4790 (also non-k) - I can get it for about 45$. Important: I like to record my VF4 Games and later make a montage of my games in Premiere Pro / Davinci Resolve (where the i5 strugles even with playback!!!) Thanks in advance! Liked your video!😅
@@RATechYT oh, and one more thing: do you think an i5 9600k (on stock settings) will be worth spending more money instead of the i7 4790? Would 4+4 cores beat 6 physical cores?
30-60 FPS is indeed enough for single player titles, yet in competitive multiplayer games such as Apex Legends, PUBG etc, the more frames you have - the better.
Next time I'll get an unlocked processor and a board to overclock, promise!
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Great! Looking forward to the next comparison. Only thing missing from this one is Cyberpunk, just because it really stresses a system. Control is very close on GPU usage but not so much on CPU.
@@tyrkukulkan Couldn't test this CPU in Cyberpunk unfortunately, but I do know that it should struggle a bit in that title at stock, kind of like it does in Watch Dogs Legion.
@@tyrkukulkan I test Cyberpunk on my overclocked 4790k @4,6 Ghz, and it runs .. okay. I tested it at Maxed Settings without RT or DLSS, and it has an avg. of 60 Fps, but the 1% and 0.1% Frametimes are in the 30s and that's something you can feel.
I was up to 1440p in the CPU bottleneck with my 3090 (At 1440p : Only 37 % of the bench time, the GPU was the limiting factor according to CapframeX).
Overclocking isn't going to make a huge difference.
@@shadowopsairman1583 Quite a difference i'd say 25%. ua-cam.com/video/D99ExbIS8hI/v-deo.html Stock i7-4790K model vs i7-4790 is 11% both at stock.
the i7's earlier gen processors were insanely good for their time.
Always will be
@The Dark Imperial And they still are.
Ivy Bridge was the pinnacle. It’s been diminishing returns since.
Reminds me those good olds boosted Q6600
still got a 4790k @ 4.8 paired with a 5700xt. It's a well balanced system that I still see being happy with for another Year or Two.
Just upgrade your GPU and you’ll be fine for another 3+ years.
@@mrpzychoI think that gpu should already max out the cpu, I know the 1070 is more gpu than the 4790 can handle.
@@snowflakecuntreeman3947 Depends on the game. I replaced my 1660 Super with a RTX 3070 and went from about 90 fps avarage in Tomb Raider to about 180 fps avarage. In CSGO the boost was maybe 25% fps at best. (4970k @ 4,7GHZ)
@@snowflakecuntreeman3947That's false. Do not make false assumptions on something you don't have knowledge of.
friend, I have the same processor but without the k and I want to buy the same graphics card, the RX5700, the games run well
Im currently rocking this i7-4790 paired with a GTX 1080ti and i must say u can hit this combo with anything and will run it at medium high settings like a charm ,in some games where 6 cores are utilized u may see some chops and hit but lowing the resolutiong is the solution.Great CPU for Its era and still capable for gaming in 2023 , would recommend for low budget gamers in need of a Low cost PC
Hyperthreading crying in the corner
@Dropzonegaming67 it has already hyper threading u just got to enable it
Doesnt it bottleneck?
Still using this chip at 4.4GHz with my RTX 3070, haven't had any trouble reaching 60fps at 4k in any games.
4.4GHz is impossible with this chip. You probably have the K version and you overclocked it.
@@SIPEROTH yes I have the K version of course, I changed recently to a Ryzen 7600x however
Good job. I don’t understand why almost nobody test this in 4K where cpu i less important than GPU. I have 4690k and gonna buy something like rtx 4070 and used i7 4gen then gonna compare it in 4K vs i5.
@@fly1063 Why you changed it if were having 60 FPS at 4K in any games? You absolute clown.
thumbs down
really??? you pair this cpu with a suited up 980ti aka 1070??? get a 1080ti and you will get easy 60 fps on 1080p in 90%+ of games
the NON K version is useless
get ONLY the 4790K
Interesting. Though this CPU already manages to achieve well over 60 FPS in majority of these games so I'm not sure what you're upset about.
Do you mind telling me what the performance would be like in every game that I tested in this video, if I used a i7-4790k and a GTX 1080 Ti instead?
My old Intel setup was the 4790k, Z97, M.2 SSD, 16gb (2x8GB) ram, gtx 980 and it was a vg build in it’s day ….and still is to some degree by looking at this video. Love your work Adam 😇👍. Cheers buddy 🍻
thats my current setup
same i just digged up this setup from my basement and put in my spare 3080 because why not😂
That was a massively good setup back in 2016... so good i bet it holds its own in 2023, given GTX980 was comparable to Rx580 when it came out (maybe the AMD card now pulls ahead due to driver optimizatión) so i do think it still has some life left
To be honest it's best CPU for upcoming 6 to 7 years because most of us only do gaming or little bit of other programs use on our PCs so it's fine no need to spend extra money on insanely high price PC parts
My 4790k has been OC’d to 4.8 for 5 years now. It’s been great and still plays most of things on high. But, I’m ready for 4k gaming and have a 12700k on the way. Hope I get the same life on this chip.
get pooped on my in at 5.0 ghz lol i uses nitrogin to make it work lol
@@raiden4105 damn! That’s awesome. I did mine on air.
I7 4790k and two GTX 1080Ti SLI 32 GB RAM 2400 MHz. I started with two GTX 980. Then 3 GTX 980Ti and now two GTX 1080Ti SLI.
Good video. I put a 3060ti (Evga 2 fan, single 8pin budget model) on an old Dell tower with the i7 4790, 16gb ram and SSD (Changed the psu) and gave it to a family member. I was surprised what it can still do. Solid 1080 gaming and some 1440p too.
the 3060ti ran well with the 4790?? If thats the case ill buy one. Looking to upgrade my current system but was wondering if the 4790 was even worth it as a cpu
@@domsims7826 I have one and I went from a gtx 960 4g to gtx 1660 super 6g and I can say something is off
@@domsims7826 my frames are not very high even with low settings and my cpu usage ranges 30 to 60 percent with gpu ranging from 30 to 50 ish aswell, typically from my understanding a balanced build should have more gpu than cpu pretty much all the time but mine stays very even and I find for such low usage it gets kinda hot like up to 80°c if I have everything maxxed but it still won't pass like 60% usage. I think either my cpu is bottlenecked or my pc isn't getting enough power out of the 500w psu my used pc's case came with.
Complete build:
Cpu (I7-4790)
Gpu (Gtx 1660S 6G)
Mobo (GA Z97N wifi)
Cpu cooler (zalman) can't actually buy it anymore and have a new one coming
Ram (16Gb Crucial 1600mhz ddr3)
(1 TB Crucial SSD)
Can anyone maybe even mention any ideas that could be the issue?
@@KaiMagee19 Hey, I'm having the same issue right now. switched from a 1060 6gb to a Rx 5700 xt and its severely underperforming. did you manage to fix your issue?
@@denil.k yeah I built a new pc with ryzen 5 cpu instead xD much better now, constant 60 fps, or 90 uncapped on rust
If you are thinking of updating to a 4790 from a 4590 or so, get a "Xeon E3 1270 V3" instead. It's basically the same but only costs 30$.
Fitted a Xeon 1241 v3, was a really good upgrade from a i5 4440. Got it for £35 inc postage on ebay.
@@virtual-adam I just did the same thing for a friend, he's absolutely loving it, i guess the extra single core performance plus the added threads really do make a difference
@@joey_f4ke238 Its a great upgrade, he must be well pleased. Hitman 2016 runs almost perfect now, was very stuttery on my i5. I mainly got it to run Forza 4. Also noticed a few other games I thought were ok on the i5 also have a big improvement. Yea the speed and extra four threads are a real help with newer games.
@@joey_f4ke238 You can overclock the Xeon's as well, so there even better than a i7 4790 non K.
Thanks for the idea I might have to do this for my girlfriend. I have an old i5 4460 I was gonna give her but I want to upgrade a little further
Bought an entire new PC in 2014
Litterally waited for the i7 4790k release date, took it day one with a whole new PC (Fractal R4, etc)
NINE F'CKIN YEARS and it's still there doing it's job very nicely
Best computer bet I've ever made
Remembering my 8800, 780GTX... Way too expensive... But now that consoles are bottlenecking evolution, I guess any 2060 will do the job for years :D
I also using this i7-4790 CPU with MSI GTX 1070 Gaming X 8GB GPU with 16.0 GB DDR3 RAM with 256 GB SSD (OS) and 1 TB SSD (Games) and I can play all games like a charm.
Haswell aged pretty well. I love my i7-4700MQ in CSGO, for a 9 year old mobile chip, gives me absolutely ridiculous framerates.
You know what they say: Haswell that ends well. Or in this case, aged well.
2 years ago I built my daughter an i7 4790 system w/16GB DDR3 1600, 120GB SSD, 1TB HDD, GTX 1060 6GB. She absolutely loved it and it played more than a few of her games in 4K as it was hooked up to the living room 4K.
Your such an awesome Dad for doing that for your daughter. 👏👏👏
@@shoot_the_glass5654 Just an average one. Trying his best with what he has. If I had enough to build a 10600 I would have. I'd say K but she doesn't need it. She's so young, she needs stability in her platform. I'll teach her OC and repair later, when she can absorb it well. Having a hard enough time with the ESD and cleanliness part right now lol!
@@Trick-Framed you’re an awesome dad. 💪🏿
What motherboard did you use btw?
@@BledsoeBluvd The stock HP board. It is a Q97 chipset board.
Now I love my 2700x at 4.3 even more, flying through this games with ease.
The 2700X is a great CPU!
@@RATechYT I might upgrade to a 5800x3d in the future, but for now I really have no problems in any game, 3400 memory at cl14 makes it a monster, wanted to upgrade to 3800x before but I saw some benchmarks and at stock is quite worse than my 2700x overclocked and one of my friends has a 3600x and its overclocking capabilities are awful, he can't even get 4100 stable so I guess second ryzen generation didn't had the best chips or at least ryzen 5 ones.
The i7-4790 is part of the reason that Microsoft tries to keep people from using older PCs with Windows 11 to help Intel sell newer processors. My i7-4790 is still rocking and still gaming just fine.
i7 4th gen still a beast, regardless gaming, only normal using I believe another 10 years no issue
I am currently using the 65W 4790S on my Dell 3020 sff with 16GB ddr3 with Low Profile sapphire RX6400 card.
Still a very capable chip. I have a system that I built for fun recently with a 4790, and 1660 Super. It provides a more than comfortable 1080p 60 fps gaming experience on all the games I play, and some games it even manages 1440p 60fps.
I would consider this chip the bare minimum for a "gaming PC" in 2024, and as a cheap but solid entry level CPU, it's hard to go wrong here.
Good video 👍 Still a decent chip for gaming the i7 4790. Considering you can get them for under $50 now its great value for a budget build. Shame Windows 11 wont support them as these chips would have so many more years of service left. But thats not good for business eh!
There are fairly simple ways around that
@@jgm113 Yea there are, but its a pain to keep doing as MS keep messing the install up on unsupported hardware. Would not want it on my work machine in case I had an issue and had to spend all day fixing it.
@@virtual-adam had windows 11 on my Mac since it was leaked, install with a patched version and it runs and gets updates as normal.
@@jgm113 I've seen a video where the guy said the install gets messed up every now and then and needs a fix? Think i'll stick with Windows 10, I only updated to it a few days ago from Windows 7 ;) Takes a while for good stability anyway.
My partner has never had a desktop computer just got her a 4790
Been looking forward to this. Got a family member an i7 4790K as a gift upgrade from an i5 4590 to go with their 5600XT (1070 equivalent). The extra 4 threads from HT do make a difference.
5600xt beats 1070 ti even, the vram is the only limitation
@@thepirate4095 So it does, by 10-15% or 2-5% for the Ti.
@@tyrkukulkan i have currently same i5 4590 with 12gb ram + Nvidia 1050ti 5gb and 256ssd+500gb hdd i play Pubg Pc on it with 1280x1024@75Hz and it gives 60-70 average fps but in combat situation it starts stuttering so by switching to i7 4790 how much fps gain will i get?
@@younaskhan-wu2ju I don't really know as I've got no experience with Pubg.
Virtual cores dont help
Nice video! Been using i7 4790 + 32G RAM(DDR3 1600) + 750Ti, the only game I'm still into and playing is RedAlert 2, everything is working fine.
it could be worth it getting the i7 4790k because, the i7 4790k base is 4ghz and turbo 4.4ghz, vs i7 4790 3.6ghz base, 4ghz turbo
Nice, I'm vibing with a 6 core 12 thread Ivy Bridge Xeon 1650 v2 overclocked to 4.5 ghz with 48gh of quad channel DDR3. I'd expect similar numbers to my own system with maybe better 1% lows. Don't forget to disable the core mitigations with inspectre!
Oh, completely forgot to mention that the patches were actually disabled, though even with them enabled I doubt it would make a noticeable difference since even the i3-7100 performs very similarly regardless of whether the patches are enabled or disabled. The frame rate difference doesn't exceed 5-7% on the dual core.
@@RATechYT No way to know until you try but I keep them always off anyway lol. I paid for the whole CPU I'm gonna use the whole CPU
This CPU really looks like it was a great deal back in 2014. $300 for 8 years of gaming is basically just $38/year. As the owner of a Ryzen 1600AF at 3.8ghz, it will be interesting to see how it compares to the Ryzen 2600. Also, NFS Heat is unplayable for me. There are textures failing to load despite the game being installed on an SSD and there are major stutters and audio delay. I heard there's some user.cfg file tweak that might fix it, so I'll definitely try that at some point. Are you also using that user.cfg tweak or does the game just run fine by default?
NFS Heat runs fine for me, never had any of those issues. I'd try repairing the in-game files, if that doesn't work then reinstalling the game completely might fix the problem.
first generation of Ryzen was really too early for them, you kinda are like an early adopter, and 1600f was still 1600 with just a bit better oc capability and better ram support, ryzen+ was a huge step for them, resolved most of the problems, latency was hugely improved, ryzen 2 was when they added more cores in high end and improved latency even more but wasn't something huge, ryzen 3 was again a huge jump and ryzen 4 might be more like ryzen 2, more cores and a bit better latency thanks to ddr5, also 6 cores kinda becomes obsolete already, as crazy as it sounds. I sold my 2600x for 2700x and had 0 problems till now.
@@thepirate4095 The 1600AF is not 1st gen, it's Zen+ (2nd gen) with the naming being 1xxx because the chip was defective and did not meet AMD's standards for Zen+ (frequency targets, etc). It's essentially a slightly cut down 2600.
@@thepirate4095 The 1600AF is a badly-binned 2600. I can't OC it past 3.8ghz because it needs 1.3v to even do that. Most 2600s would do 4ghz easily with about the same voltage. It's Zen+, not 1st gen Zen like the original 1600 "AE". I only paid $96 new for it so I'm extremely happy with it and will probably run it for at least another 5 years as it does everything I want from a CPU in terms of video editing and gaming.
@@r34ztune11 my 2600 did 4.2 with 1.4 volts, my 2700x does 4.3 at 1.35
yay new vid :) i7 4790 can be decent budget option, for 1080p i think rtx 2060/gtx 1070 would be absolute maximum i would pair it with, otherwise i would start looking at zen 1 or zen + offerings such as r5 1600 or 2600. I personally upgraded from my 4790k to 3700x back in 2019 and even though i was limited by my gtx 1070 back when i was using it, i definitely felt frametime improvements with new cpu, the overall user experience havent changed much though. However non k 4790 definitely starts to show its age and while it may be OK option for budget builders i would recommend looking for newer stuff.
I don't agree about "maximum". I had GTX 1070 pair with it and I replaced it with RTX 2070 Super. There was still a huge performance boost and many games still have almost 100% gpu utilization (95-98%) with this combo. There is some bottleneck but the cpu benefits a lot from higher end gpus as long as you have DDR3 ram overclocked above 2000 Mhz. I think you could go as far as RTX 3070 if you want to play with Ray Tracing enabled. Anything above that would be a mistake though.
@@Harzexe What games do you play? Also raytracing has even higher cpu load so your RT point is absolutely not true. 4790k wont hold 60fps in watch dogs legion, far cry 6, cyberpunk, MFS, depending on settings. When you are hitting bellow 60 due to weak cpu just dont bother and upgrade. Dropping 3070 on it would be absolute waste of money, even budget i5 12400 would mop the floor with it for ~300$ ram/cpu/mobo included.
@@h1tzzYT in most games I have more than 100 fps. Far Cry 5 holds above 60 fps. Doom Eternal 100-200 fps. Witcher 3 next gen on DX11 between 55-115 fps. Battlefield 1 works very good with DX11 as well. Fortnite DX11: 100-144 fps on high settings. Fortnite DX12 with RTX on medium about 60-90 fps. CS:GO above 200 fps.
Just as I said. There is some bottleneck for sure but I'm not hitting a wall yet even if newer processors can do a much better job. My point is that 4790K (4.5 Ghz with 2400 Mhz DDR3) can still deliver very good framerate.
@@Harzexe "My point is that 4790K (4.5 Ghz with 2400 Mhz DDR3) can still deliver very good framerate."
No it cannot, at least not in all games. My point was that if you have rtx 2060 and up, especially 3070 money, you should have upgraded 4790k long time ago. I could still get behind haswell HEDTs though. 5960x can still be good performer, but 4790k? nah. it doesnt have enough to deliver smooth 60 in all games, thats obsolete in my book.
My grandparents have a dell desktop from 2015 with an i5 4460, 8 GB DDR3 1600 MHz and a 1 TB HDD and its been super slow. They won’t let me build them a new one and they said they don’t mind how slow it is but I went ahead and told them I’m upgrading it anyway so I got a used i7 4790, 16 GB DDR3 1600 MHz and a 500 GB SSD which should make their computer much faster.
I'm getting horrible 1% lows I'm thinking it's the 8gb of ram but I'm not 100% sure
I7 4790 + Zotac RTX 3060 TWIN EDGE 12GB.
Rock solid 😎
Just ordered a used i7 4790K today to go into my dedicated Zwift machine to replace an i5 4670K. I have a GTX 1070 that I will also be installing soon, so I figured the i7 would better compliment the GTX 1070. Good to see it'll do more than just run Zwift.
Nice the 4790k is little faster then my 4770 non k so 1070 would be quite nice combo.
@@downundergarage6968 Depends what you mean by a little faster, 4790k is 20% faster single core and 20% using 8 threads much better for gaming.
I can play all the above games over 60 fps at 1440p using my RTX 2060 and i7 4790 @ max settinga
I'm still using a I7 3770 non k
anything that can be overclocked lasts more, I had a 3570k and overclocked was like 30% better than on stock which is huge, no ht was its only problem, the biggest one. 3770k could go to 4.4-4.8 if I'm not mistaken, depending on silicon luck, you are stuck at 3.4 all cores and 3.9 turbo.
@@thepirate4095 no choice. I got the best cpu the board I had could handle.. It's a really good fit for my rx 580 anyway
@@ZeR0goth yea, never go cheap with the mother boards, my b450 tomahawk will last me with ease 4-5 years more and has great vrms, I can upgrade even to 5950x without a problem but probably I will go with 5800x3d in the future
@@thepirate4095 got an oem hp board for like 15.. Definitely worth the price to performance.. Lol
@@ZeR0goth well you have to change the entire pc in the future anyway, you could go with intel now, even a i3 would kill 3770 and you have huge upgrade windows in the future
Have anyone tried making this chip as a dedicated streaming PC, running OBS.
I am running OBS 30, 1080p 60fps 8000bitrate.
hardware - 1080p 60fps webcam, elgato HD60X both requires USB3.0
RTX2060 and i5-4590 and its running 100% CPU :(
I was wondering if an i7 4790 will run better? Maybe lower the process by 15-20%?
Hell, I'm still rocking a 3570 (non-K) and it can do VR just fine
to be fair, I'm on a 3060 which is probably helping a lot
now its 8/2024 - my pc with i7-4790 is running for years without any major problems (well my motherboard battery is empty but this takes only effect if i turn the pc completely off), AMD Radeon R9 390, 16GB RAM, is running well, some games are still playable like sc2 i mostly play in low/medium settings, but thats no problem 4 me...i am no hardcore player so for all other things i do can't say any negative thing about my system. thanks for you video * cheers* (i got a second pc as a backup :D)
I still own my 4790K because it is still a capable CPU for doing multimedia tasks like ripping DVDs with handbrake because of the high clock speeds on all cores.
it was my daily driver up until a few weeks ago, but do NOT buy one right now, especially not a K model. get an I5 12600k if you can afford it, but there are better budget options.
The end is nigh on this unfortunately. Even the Starfield minimum specs require a six core CPU now.
And I'm still using one. The reason is that I base my upgrades not at what's out there but on what is still allowing me to comfortable work on.
Why don’t you try far cry 3 maxed out settings. I’m sure you’ll be pretty disappointed just like me.
I still have my pc running the 4790k and it is awesome 👌 not as fast as my I9 but still plays games almost as good.
my current rig is a: i7 4790k, 32gig ram, asrock z97 fatality, 3x 4tb sata HDD, 1070GTX, just finished playing Jedi: Fallen Order in high graphics, rocked like a champion and will continue to do so. I use a be quiet! Dark Rock 4 CPU Air Cooler. Idle temp 24C and max peak temp 58C~60C. If I can play newer games that averages around 55~60fps, I am good. I mostly dota and csgo any ways. Also, don't know why but you talk like a robot some what. 😂
lol I'll try to improve that.
Not a lot of in game setting reduce the use of CPU. They most aimed at the use of GPU.
GTX 760? That's my old GPU...I put a 1060 on my 4790K, for 1080p/75hz gameplay is fine but some games do push you to get an upgrade even at that refresh rate.
Overclock and high speed memories makes a huge difference, you might be surprise when compare later to this lower 4790 none K.
I OC my 1600Mhz to 2000Mhz going from 1.5v to 1.6v and CL9 to CL11 (11-11-11-33), give it a try and see if it boots correctly...
2133mhz wasn't possible for me (4+4+8+8 sticks made it harder I guess).
I've been waiting for this review for ages! Thank you!
My I7 4790k is getting tired. Beat to death gaming for years 6+ hours a night, now I edit youtube videos and it cant keep up. Time to retire the old girl. She has been good.
Was using mine for years now. Just passed it down with a 1080ti to my daughter just today as I upgrade.
you shold probably pair this cpu with 970 or 1060
I'm still using my i7-4790k, that I bought, when I built my computer, back in 2015. I upgraded my GPU from a GTX 980, to a RTX 2080 a few years back, and I still don't feel the need to upgrade the CPU, as every new game still runs great in 1440p.
@@user-cn3vq9vr3u same ... i7 4790k + RTX 3060 since Dec 2014. Changed some GPUs (970 SLI -> 980TI -> 1070TI -> RTX 3060) and RMA'ed a seasonic PSU. Still working pretty well in 2023. I game at 1440p.
I have an Asus b85m- v plus board with 4th gen celeron and 16 GB ram. I'm all set to get an i7-4790 (with or without k). What is the cheapest GPU that I could pair, if ever my son needs it? He is the one udong the PC most of the time.
Also, do I need to upgrade the power supply? Currently it is using a 450w power supply.
You could get a GTX 1070, costs around $100 nowadays. If you want to go cheaper - the RX 580 is also a good option that you can find below $70 on eBay, though it's also going to perform a bit worse in most cases.
I guess it depends on how old your PSU is and whether it's a good unit. Also keep in mind that 450w is going to be enough for the GTX 1070, but with the RX 580 it will be stretching it.
I built a i7-4790 Optiplex 16gb, 500gb ssd with 560 gpu and 400w power supply for under $175. Bought everything off ebay. Plays all games really well that my sons have tried. Our neighbors kids have built $500-$600 gaming pcs that don't run as well, and their cabinets are much cheaper quality. The Optiplex 7020/9020 tower and even the 7010/9010 with i7 3770 have to be best deal around for budget gaming.
If i paired it with 32 GB DDR3 , 500 GB SSD and GTX 1650 ddr6 , Will it be good to rub Photoshop , ilustrator , a little of web desing and for My studies in the university? I AM studying enginering systems
I use a 6700xt with my 4790 after ditching my 1070, can even run ultra settings on starfield average 65 on 1080p. CPU temperature is cooled by a 360 AIO constant at 40 degree celsius, GPU temperature is 60 degree Celsius in a full tower with 4 p12 fans.
I still got mines paired with 1080ti
Bf5 on i7 4790 is choppy as hell. Fps is good, frametime is horrible. I had exactly the same setup. Locking fps at 95 gave me 9.5ms of frametime, but it was still dipping to mid 70s.Same gpu on ryzen 5 3600 never go below 120fps with frametime around 6-7ms.with i7 even gsync didn't help
I was using the i7-4820k and GTX 1060 3GB til I lost access to my desktop about 20 months ago. Was able to emulate all game consoles except the PS3, 360 and Switch. And could play all my games just fine.
Me with my RTX 4080, 5600x and 165hz 1440 display, watching videos about how well a gtx 1070 can run on an i7 4000 series at 1080p
im also running the 4790, gtx 1070 and 24gigs of ram at 1866mhz and i kust say it handles pretty kuch anything i throw at it quite well i think ill wait abit before i think of upgrading to a ryzen 5 5600x or something
Hi i have a question can my motherboard support i7 4790? my motherboard is asus b 85 m-e
It does support a 4790, the only problem is that motherboard doesn't have a VRM heatsink so it's going to get quite warm under load, so you might want to cool that area with a fan.
I still use i7 4790k overclocked to 4.8 GHz with water cooler. It can handle all new games very good it's just legendary cpu
Thank you very much for the video
can i Run 450watt supply with i7-4790 with 6600 XT pleace reply
Yes.
please do consider to do 4K and 1440p resolution as having higher resolutions decease the bottleneck on CPUs.
Please add elden ring to test games, also thanks for the video. i'm gonna change my i5 4570 to i74790s
A 4.5 ghz all core overclock would really help here, it gave life to my i5 4690k for a while longer.
I use one with a 3060ti to run Zwift on a bike trainer. If you only need a processor for one activity these are great chips.
heck ya dude i use the i 7 4790k it run just fine beside like cyberpunk but noteven a 4090 and a i9 13900k run it lol
I man, i have a i7 4770 non k with 16gb 1600 ddr3 ram... i want to buy rx 6600 or xt or rtx 2060 /3060...is possibile to reach a playable esperience in 1080 60fps (Like a console) or the performance are worse than this video becausw The 1070 is lower than The gpus that i have mentioned? e big up man 💪
why not use the 4790k instead of the regular 4790?
Cause that's what I had access to at the time.
I'm keeping mine definitely
Ho upgrades just a side pc if I ever need to upgrade. 4790k delid is beast
That cpu works perfectly paired with a gtx 1080, you need good ram, and a high quality motherboard. No bottlenecks here! Awesome combo.
What motherboard should I get, I was thinking asrock z97
@@martinmwitila Asrock is awesome, I've built quite a few haswell rigs with asrock. My main pc has an Asrock motherboard. No worries there!
@@jefferycoleman3781 great thanks
good vid, i still daily drive a gaming PC 4790k but i didn't overclock it due to tha motherboard i'm using which it's not tha best for any overclocking (MSI Z97-S01 [Guard Pro]) but it's paired with a GTX 1080Ti along with G.Skill Ares 16gb 2400MHZ (used to be Kingston HyperX Fury but due to it not lettin me use XMP because tha motherboard i have for it didn't have XMP support for Kingston HyperX Fury, so i went with a G.skill Ares which has a much better XMP support compared to Kingston HyperX Fury and wow i saw a much better result just by tha ram swap to a much higher clocked and different ram kit with XMP) and TBH tha GTX 1070 is holding it back badly along with tha ram kit which i'm a former user of Kingston HyperX Fury who switched to G.Skill Ares 2400mhz 16GB kit u should consider gettin' 2400mhz Kit of DDR3 for either G.Skill Ares or G.skill Ripjaws X for 2400mhz 16gb kit i saw some new condition on Newegg
i also have a Ryzen 5 3600 as a dedicated streaming PC paired with now a RTX 2060 KO (used to be GTX 1070 but didn't have as good as a Nvenc encoder compared to Touring based GPUs but my second hand GTX 1070 will be used in tha future on my dedicated editing Software rig which has a GTX 560 Ti oof)
It was true what they said that time, 4th gen was the leap of Intel tech.
i7 4790 + RTX 3070
i'm running the 4790K with Windows 11 and a 3060Ti, 4k 60hz monitor - i'll be running this well into 2023 as no game i run does so less than 60 frames in 4k
still dre still i7 4790k 😎
Depends on needs. Use one 2024
I had a 4790k I OC'd to 4.8, that baby carried me all the way until last year at 1440p
I finally upgraded to a 12600k, the upgrade was well worth it, but you cant count the 4790k out
watt is crazzy
Thank you so much for arabic translate you helping me so much
Got a cousin of the i7, the i5 4570 4c/4t at 3.2 Ghz paired with a r9 380, h81m, 8gb ddr3 1600 cl8 and a 250gb samsung 850 evo ssd and finally after years i'm going for a r5 5600, rx 6600, b550, 512 gb 980 from samsung and 16gb ddr4 3200 cl16. Tomorrow the cpu arrives so can't wait to test the difference
I got pretty much the same system (1070 8GB and 16 GB ram) paired with an e3-1270 v3 (very close to the 4790k) instead. Does everything I need and want, I probably will keep it for sometime! :)
still playing with the 4790k, even bf5 wasnt that bad (around 70 fps and prety smooth), got problems with bf2042 (around 30fps on big maps), but yea am not gona change it for just 1 game who requir more than what it is.
Good to have u back! I have an i7 4770k@4,3 GHz + EVGA GTX 1070 SC on my sole mining rig, so I can game on it while mining. Death Stranding and PUBG being the games I play, on 1440p. Mainboard is a crappy Asus H87M Plus + 16GB of DDR3 1600 CL9. PUBG runs fine at ~90 fps and DS stays near the 60 fps about most of the time, only sometimes dipping to 40+ fps..
i have a friend that has it and whant to play a 1080p 60, i told him is pretty much perfect just pair it with a rtx 3060 or rx6600 and he is done.
just a gtx1070? This Graphics Card are not on 4790(K) level. Im sure you need a 2080ti or better to nearly bottleneck a 4790(K) at some games!
Control is the only game where the GTX 1070 is the bottleneck without a question. In Apex Legends there are areas when it gets GPU bound, but in the rest of the games the i7 is the bottleneck. Personally I wouldn't go past GTX 1080 with this processor, unless you like to play using max settings at a resolution higher than 1080p.
i have similar specs to what you posted here, but my psu barely has 600w. How can i check if my psu is bottlenecked? any software suggestions or there's simply no way to tell.
I doubt it's the power supply. Do you have performance issues or crashes? Because as you can see at 7:57, while gaming this build doesn't consume more than 300W while gaming. If everything was under full load, it probably wouldn't exceed 400W.
@@RATechYT i see, however i have a tower with 3 led fans constantly up, a custom CPU cooler, 1 hdd and 1 sata ssd + 1080. Would my 600w psu support with these an 9900k with 32 gb? or can the power consumption be monitored by software or just that type of gizmo you have there?
@@pettym3 With a 9900k and a GTX 1080 with 32 GB of RAM your total system power consumption shouldn't exceed 450-500W.
You can monitor power consumption of certain components by using HWINFO. You can also use sites such as PCPartPicker to have an idea of how much your rig is going to consume.
I upgraded from an i7 4790 to ryzen 9 5900x
I think baseline for this kinds of test shoud be average and 1% lows as close to 60 fps as you can. Most low budget gamers still rock a 60 hz monitor from there moms workplace so theres no need go for more.
The difference between 60 and 120 FPS is actually very noticeable, even on a 60 Hz monitor.
@@RATechYT what are you talking about? If a monitor has 60 hz it means it caps at 60 fps. Even if you get a million fps it will still only show at 60 fps/hz. It can even hurt performance /experiences getting screentearing etc
@@martinlinden4129 It's because of the input latency being much lower, you're getting a much more responsive experience with 200 FPS compared to just 60 FPS, even if you're not able to see those 200 frames.
Kind of pointless experiment for a CPU, when in a few games the actual bottleneck is the video card.
Apex Legends and Control are the only two games where we're GPU bound. In the rest of the games the CPU barely manages to push the graphics card to even 80% utilization, even at at high settings in some cases, so upgrading to a better GPU won't help much in most scenarios.
@@stzokev I'd rather make a conclusion from real world tests than rely on calculators like this one that are vague. The i7-4790 is clearly the bottleneck here in most instances, but of course it really depends on your use case.
@@RATechYT Sure use case is the key. Not sure whether you made a new video with unlocked 4790k, if you haven't you can make one with a more up to date video card on those same games and compare the FPS difference. It would be a nice 4790 in 2023 video :)
I am still waiting for the last FX CPU left to benchmark.
Against the 1090T!
You mean, the FX-4300?
@@RATechYT yes
@@nem11x That's not the last FX CPU I'm planning to benchmark ;)
I Have rx 580 8GB
should i upgrade the cpu from I5-4690 To I7-4790?
киберпанк 2077 грузит 4790 на 90-95% при видеокарте PAlit 1660s
Which CPU is better,Ryzen 3 3100 or i7 4790 ?
Ryzen. Better performance and much better upgrade path.
3100 is a really shitty cpu, 3300x was a much better deal but you can't really find it anywhere so why not 4100?
you could also go with intel if you build a new pc, motherboards can be more expensive but the new cpu's are kinda hot and beat ryzen in single thread in most games if not all of them.
@@thepirate4095 4100 is actually weaker than 3100, it has 4mb L3 Cache vs 3100's 16 MB L3 cache. I believe it's a mobile chip ported to desktop.
@@andreim2761 didn't know that, well that kinda sucks for AMD, 6500 xt a big mistake now this, we need intel to be competitive
i would love an i7 4790 vs Fx8350 video
Sir, what FPS in PUBG without recording?
I have one of my rigs with a 4790 16gig ram along with a 1070 founders edition paired with 1TB Adata ssd and it rocks everything just fine even my occulus rift 2. Never played a game on medium or low settings and all runs smooth . Its not even fancy as its a dell 9020 switched to new case via conversion kit. If your on a budget its just an outstanding price to performance deal pairing the 4790 with a 1070
I have an i5 4690 (non-k), 16GB DDR3 Hyper-X Savage 1600 Mhz, and I recently upgraded from GTX1050 Ti 4GB GDDR5 to RTX 3060Ti 12GB (although PCIe 4.0, the AARock H97m Pro4 doesn’t support that feature).
It’s 2023 now, and my question is that will I see some significant performance increase if I upgrade i7 4790 (also non-k) - I can get it for about 45$.
Important: I like to record my VF4 Games and later make a montage of my games in Premiere Pro / Davinci Resolve (where the i5 strugles even with playback!!!)
Thanks in advance! Liked your video!😅
I believe yes. Difference won't be massive, but noticeable.
@@RATechYT i’ll get it and will let you know!
Thanks a lot for the reply!
Have a nice Sunday!
@@RATechYT oh, and one more thing: do you think an i5 9600k (on stock settings) will be worth spending more money instead of the i7 4790? Would 4+4 cores beat 6 physical cores?
@@RATechYT can you please advise?
@@Robertsson 9600k is better than the 4790. 4C/8T delivers similar performance to 6C/6T, but the 9600K is much newer, so it's better.
have it's problems at 2023
100Fps?!? And here I thought 24-30fps was plenty 🤣 It’s been a LONG TIME since I games on pc
30-60 FPS is indeed enough for single player titles, yet in competitive multiplayer games such as Apex Legends, PUBG etc, the more frames you have - the better.