Lol, if you're going to recommend him a CPU and then say it's only going to last 2 years, it isn't a good recommendation.
Ryzen would cost him a entire new system and not only 100 bucks.
Stupid comparison you made here. And that 2 years I was talking of was a "minimum" baseline and just a guess btw, no one could know for sure, but 2 years is a good minimum guess I'd say.
With Ryzen around it doesn't make sense to drop money on older, more expensive parts that don't come with a warranty, decent IHS solder, or decent CPU cooler.
Since when is a used 4790K more expensive? It is not. I don't think you understand the OP, he could simply replace the i5 with the i7 4790K
on the same mainboard/system. Ridiculous being quoted by people and laughed at who didn't even understand the main post. And who needs warranty on a CPU? Nobody, it will work, else he can give it back. And if it works, it will never be defective, because it's a frickin CPU. Please go and troll somewhere else, Ryzen fanboy.
Not to mention the lack of an upgrade path (Ryzen won't require you to buy a new mobo every time you want a better CPU) and newer features like M.2 and USB Type C and 3.1. Ryzen's IPC is a bit above the Intel 4000 series and the 2 extra cores on the R5 will help immensely in CPU intensive games now and in the future, feeding more hungry GPUs.
Irrelevant, because again he wouldn't need a new CPU for another 2 years+ and would only spend about 100 bucks if he sells the i5.
OC is going to be based on silicon lottery and you are going to have to buy an aftermarket cooler with any Intel CPU if you want to OC.. The 4790k still has the crummy paste under the IHS as well.
Bullshit, the 4790K is well overclockable to at least 4.4 GHz minimum with the stock cooler, and a aftermarket coolers are just a few bucks (212 Evo or so), if he wants to do higher OC.
That AMD fanboy is going nuts here. Quote someone else next time, I'm gonna counter your bs every time.
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@Horemheb i7 4790K is a good bet if you want to save money/not buy a entire new system. What I told you about my friend is 100% true, he had a nice increase in FPS after switching to the 4790K from the i5 4670K @ 4.1 GHz OC at heavy tasking games, and that is with a overclocked 980 Ti, so the 1080 Ti would profit even more. For such a GPU, a high clocked i7 is a must (4790K being one of the options), a 6 or 8 core i7 the optimum.
"Ryzen Ryzen Ryzen", first let the platform mature and have decent support in games, then we can talk about it again. At the time it's just slower than Intel's stuffs. Normally I'm always in to defend Ryzen, but not for someone who is strictly gaming, I would only recommend Ryzen for workstation and/or streaming while gaming usage, not for pure gaming, because it's simply not up to the game there, atm.