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I'm at Uni and I built a small system for as cheap as I could to take to uni; I simply couldn't move my system from home because I was worried about it's security in the moving van (it's a £2500 rig).

My problem is that I built a dirt cheap system and the CPU just doesn't cut my work loads or isn't the best with gaming, here are the specs:

CPU: i5-4460 (Second Hand)
Ram: 16 GB Hyper X Impact DDR3 (Second Hand)
GPU: GTX 970 (Brand New)
Coolers: A range of Artic Coolers (Second Hand)
PSU: 900 watt EVGA (Second Hand)

I saved money going second hand because I had to build this system a week before leaving and I had no money.


First I may as well tell you what this system is used for, here's a list:

    3D Rendering (Not so industrial I need a quadro)
    Program Design and software engineering
    Web Design (PHP, SQL etc.)
    Graphic Design
    Games Design
    Gaming


My question is what CPU I should upgrade too? Would it be wise to upgrade to a i7 - 4790K or maybe a better i5? I want to stay on the LG1150 socket so don't go suggesting a skylake CPU.

My budget is £300 but I can't make a decision, I need some one to help me because as much as for my needs a xeon is preffered but I want to actually play games.. So i7-4790K or something similar?
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I would go with the 4790K it is a solid CPU







@Sanctorum not upset at all just don't agree m'kay. if you don't like it come to the SB and tell me how you really feel i'm sure i'll listen


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A 4790k would be a waste if you're not overclocking it. Since you have a locked i5, it would seem that you don't have a Z97 chipset motherboard, so wouldn't be able to overclock anyway. A Xeon E3-1231 V3 would be fine, it's basically an i7 without the iGPU, which you don't need since you have that GTX 970. However, an i5 should be perfectly fine.

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Though, I'd make sure there isn't an issue with your i5 first, as it shouldn't really struggle to do any of the tasks you mentioned. A Xeon would be better, but an i5 should be able to handle that.
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Sanctorum wrote A 4790k would be a waste if you're not overclocking it. Since you have a locked i5, it would seem that you don't have a Z97 chipset motherboard, so wouldn't be able to overclock anyway. A Xeon E3-1231 V3 would be fine, it's basically an i7 without the iGPU, which you don't need since you have that GTX 970. However, an i5 should be perfectly fine.

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Though, I'd make sure there isn't an issue with your i5 first, as it shouldn't really struggle to do any of the tasks you mentioned. A Xeon would be better, but an i5 should be able to handle that.


1: Thank you, but as I said the Xeon isn't what I want as I want too game as well.
2: The i5 doesn't multi-task that well as if I have a project open in visual studio (typically 10 - 20k lines of code) the IDE takes up a space on all the cores and 4 threads just doesn't seem to cut it.

Thank you any way I appreciate it.
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1: Thank you, but as I said the Xeon isn't what I want as I want too game as well.
2: The i5 doesn't multi-task that well as if I have a project open in visual studio (typically 10 - 20k lines of code) the IDE takes up a space on all the cores and 4 threads just doesn't seem to cut it.

Thank you any way I appreciate it.

As I said, the Xeon E3-1231 V3 is basically an i7-4790 without the iGPU. It does not limit gaming performance in any way. I've owned an i5 before and it handled multi-threaded tasks perfectly fine. It's not a shit CPU by any means. The Xeon's extra 4 threads will obviously help, but an i5 wpuld be fine.

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