Hello, I have the option to trade my i7 4790 for an i5 6600k.
I would just like to hear all of you guys opinion on the matter to see if it is worth it, the pros and cons. I will give the person in question, 16GB of ram and I will receive the same back. The motherboards are similar spec not much difference.
Thanks
Steven
You’d be losing out on the deal.
There’s been almost no increase in performance from Intel in the last few years, so going from an i7 to an i5 will be a downgrade. The only tasks that would see a benefit would be tasks that are purely single threaded, and that’s only if the i5 is overclocked.
For gaming you’d see zero benefit from the trade. For productivity you’d see a decrease in performance from the trade.
And the switch to DDR4 will also have zero performance increase as well. DDR3 and DDR4 performance in just about any task outside of synthetic benchmarks is completely negligible. Hell, I’ve seen plenty of DDR3 performing better in synthetics compared to DDR4.