Guild Wars 2

So I’m planning on building a desktop and was wondering if there will be a performance difference between an i5-4690k and an i7-4790k. I will be using a gtx 980 for my gpu. Thanks!

Difference in performance? Maybe. Will you notice it? Also maybe. Could be the i7 performs better when you’re in huge zerg vs. zerg fights, but I have a CPU similar to the i5 and that works just fine, even with lost of characters in the area.
It probably depends on whether or not you want to pay 100$ extra for what might just amount to a small boost in performance (though it probably won’t hurt). Then again, with that GPU, somehow I don’t think that’s a huge issue…

Are you planning on overclocking?

I am not planning on overclocking.

Olaf Soul Can Haz.4689:

I am not planning on overclocking.

Then go for a comparable i5 without the K suffix. The K adds a premium for an unlocked multiplier which you only care about if you’re overclocking.

Well I come from the days where overclocking was unstable and severely reduced the life of the processor. Has things changed with the new Intel chips?

Olaf Soul Can Haz.4689:

Well I come from the days where overclocking was unstable and severely reduced the life of the processor. Has things changed with the new Intel chips?

Overclock, but make sure you have a good cooler.

the i7-4790K will yield about 20FPS above the i5-4690K due to HT.

But they both have the same ‘zerg’ level of performance cause they use the same core technology.

If you have the money, get the i7. It will last you longer and hold a higher resell value when its time to upgrade.

When you OC, the simple out of box test is to default your BIOS and make sure your RAM is at 1333mhz or 1600mhz, set the CPU voltage to 1.25 and the multiplier to 46 and boot into windows then run Prime95. While that is running also load up coretemp/hwinfo and monitor the Temps(100c is the top, so you want between 65c-75c). If you dont hardlock or BSOD its a stable OC.

I have only seen 6 samples of Haswell that did not OC at or above 4.6ghz and they are all 4670K’s and 4770K’s. the newer G3258 and 4*90K’s all OC pretty well. Just make sure you buy a GOOD motherboard with 8 or 12 phased power (Z97-G45 for example) as that is what makes those Chips OC better.