Should I upgrade I7 9204ghz to 4770K 4.6Ghz

[Jacky60]

The answer is yes. I did this and gaming experience in Arma 3 is night and day much better. With same GPUs and admittedly much faster HD I now have a contemporary CPU experience and it's really noticeable. From the GPU RU charts I didn't think it would make a huge difference but it really does. Not sure how it will affect 'simpler' games like BF4 but installing BF3 and Crysis 3 tmrw.
Still instability testing but windows was a cinch at 4.8.

 

[Gikaseixas]

Mine's simply a beast. Enjoy it

 

[LagunaX]

Did u delid to get 4.8ghz?
Just picked up a Maximus Hero board as I snagged one of those $199 4770k's last week. Have a $48 corsair h80i coming in too.

 

[Meekers]

That microcenter sale prompted me to take the leap from an i7 920 stuck at 3.4 ghz because of C0 stepping to a 4770k that I currently have at 4.5 ghz. Turn times in Civ5 just just dropped by about 50-75%.

I got my OC just from the Asus auto OC tool. I am hoping that when I have time to sit down and manually tweak things I can get it a bit higher as my temps are in the mid 60s while stress testing with only a h212+ with 1 fan cooling it.

 

[BallaTheFeared]

I came from an i5-2500k, but I've really enjoyed mine. No deliding but great clocks and temps on air none the less.

When you get into beta testing a new MMO and there are huge mobs of people and only two cores are being used it's nice to know you're getting the best experience possible

 

[tweakboy]

That is a sidegrade. Don't throw away your hard earned money.

You wont see a differnce unless you run benchmarks and what not. gl

 

[Jacky60]

Did u delid to get 4.8ghz?
Just picked up a Maximus Hero board as I snagged one of those $199 4770k's last week. Have a $48 corsair h80i coming in too.

I haven't delidded and still doing some stability testing, it will do 4.8 on 1.256 vcore but it does get pretty toasty, it does 4.6 on 1.21 vcore and stays comfortably cool.