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Question

PC upgrade help

Aug 6, 2017 7:34AM PDT

Current PC i5 4460, GTX 970, 16GB RAM.

I want to upgrade my cpu to a i7 4790k would I see a good performance boost or will it be pointless, I mainly game at 4k.

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Didn't we cover this?
Aug 6, 2017 7:55AM PDT
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Cpu
Aug 6, 2017 8:20AM PDT

You will certainly get more cpu muscle.

You would need to look at the games your playing to see if they will take advantage of the extra cores.