[searchableguy]

I don't think 4790K is that powerful anymore. Anything below intel's 8th generation is pretty lower end regardless of gen.

They increased core count for every gen starting 8th gen and made a significant leap in perf.

Your processor would give the same perf as the lowest end ryzen.

[Wowfunhappy]

> Your processor would give the same perf as the lowest end ryzen.

Not for single core performance though, right? Which is what I'm looking at here.

[LegitShady]

An AMD Ryzen 7 2700x has faster single core performance than yours, maybe 5% more. Anything faster/more recent is even more. It's multicore advantage will be much more.

[winrid]

2700x user here. I didn't realize how low end it's considered! I game and do all the coding things and never really wait long for games to load or code to compile...

[thejynxed]

It's not low-end, it is middle of the pack, given it's age, and for the price it's still a good buy for things like compiling and encoding, let alone any grand strategy/4x style of game that relies heavily on CPU multi-threading speeds.

[LegitShady]

Everyone has different requirements. Depending on your resolution and required frame rate you might have get a more powerful video card that becomes bottlenecked by your cpu.

But the 2700x was a good buy, in retrospect.

[winrid]

Yeah, I also built this machine last year. 1050TI, 64gb ram.

[LegitShady]

See I can't imagine running on a 1050ti but I only need 32gb of ram. I can't drive my monitor (5120x1440) with that video card at any reasonable rates. Everyone has different requirements.