I've noticed something strange in the last years. And I was involved into PC hardware heavily all these years. Since Ryzen came in 2017, Intel and games' devs were pushing so hard for multicore enhancements, I'm pretty sure they disregarded focus on 1 or 2 cores, or maybe some kind of optimizations for IPC/single core/thread performance. Everyone and their dog was amazed about having 6 or 8 or 16 whatever cores. To share workloads between multiple cores. Now, maybe since last year or two, I got few DDR3 rigs thru my hands, and as long as thermal paste is changed, motherboard cleaned up with proper stuff, fans cleaned up, PSU cleaned up, applied little OC, new SSD installed - 4 cores is playing dam well! On top of that, select FSR 2.1 where applicable and dang! 1080p gaming for 150-200 euros! It's like industry has realized there's millions of potential gamers in low/mid income economies, where i5 or Ryzen 3 is the best kids can have, hence feels like the industry re-started optimizations for single/double cores performance. 🤷♂️
My gigabyte z87m died recently forcing me to upgrade, I went with Ryzen 5 5600 and I'd say the difference is night and day! I'm no longer getting any stutter or framedrops, especially when using android emulator. My specs as of today is Ryzen 5 5600, 16GB DDR4 HYperx beast 3600mhz paired with old GTX 1060 6GB.
@@TEAMROV10 Yes it would run but I recommend lowering the Graphics for a smooth gameplay. You probably want to upgrade your GPU soon like a gtx 1650 or rx580 which are cheaper nowadays.
I'm still running mine, it's been overclocked to 5ghz for almost 10 years now! It's still water cooled in my living room setup, running almost every single day. I do all my emulation (including switch) on it and all games before 2020 work wonders. Gotta love this tank ❤
Heeelll yes, this is great, in this days im upgrading my dell pc, is a optiplex 3020 sff, i have a rx 550 2gb, an internal hdd(i'm gonna change it by a ssd 480gb, a ssd of 2tb that has the videogames, and i did it a custom tower fan. I love the computers, the electronic and make things for it.😅
Still using my 4690 alongside a gtx1060 6gb, originally a gtx970. 16gb ddr3 ram. Currently using a pcie adapter to use a m.2 nvme. Hopefully upgrading my pc soon.
i5 4690k@4.6Ghz/ 1.180v, 212Evo. 16Gb DDR3 2000CL10, PowerColor Fighter RX 6700 10Gb. Cine R23: Multi 4400, Single 1145 pts. Alan Wake 2: CPU Util. 50% to 80%, GPU Util. 100%. FPS is 45-60, 1080p High, no FSR. This game doesn't care what cpu you have. 😆 Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p High, 1660 Ti = 88FPS, RX 6700 10Gb. = 111 FPS.
I have one. Got it in 2020 with a hyper evo 212 air cooler and a Z97G45 Gaming motherboard and 16gb ddr3 ram for 125 bucks. I have had it stable at 4.5ghz since I got it. I have had it paired with an RX 580, a 5600XT and a Vega 56 and to this day I still can game at medium to high settings in the games I play like Warzone, World of Warcraft, Assassin's Creed Origins and Odyssey. I get right at 60fps or higher in them all. I do have a few hitches here and there rarely, but it is an old processor. I have also paired it with an RTX 2070 and it seems to run its best paired with that card. I did upgrade the ram to 32GB of Teamgroup DDR3 ram and I have it at a stable OC of 2666mhz. I alos put a Thermaltake Water 3.0 360AIO on it and have pushed it up to a stable 4.8ghz at 1.47V and kept the temp under 85C in Cinebench although I did hit 97c in AIDA 64 after a few minutes of running it. Id probably have to delid it and use better thermal paste to make it more viable, but I put it back down to 4.5 and 1.219v and that is where it has stayed at for the last 4 years of owning it. Always use it as a backup computer. I also experimented with Crossfire with it, first had dual Sapphire Pulse RX 580's then I had 2 MSI Airboost Vega 56's running with the Vega 64 Bios. Compared it with the 2080TI I had and minus Ray Tracing of course The Crossfire Vegas went toe to toe with the 2080TI, in the games that were still crossfire compatible that is. Not bad for having about 300 bucks in both Vegas back then. I am pretty confident that with delidding and proper cooling I could push this chip to the 5ghz mark and beyond if I wanted to, but it's just an every day and I enjoy having it. 4th Gen was probably the best Gen they had as far as versatility and longevity. For Gaming, the 4790K was still viable and usable until 10thgen came out. Both the 4790K and the 4690K Devil's Canyon refresh are still able to be used to this day for most 1080P gaming, minus some Triple A titles that use Core Count.
I am running my i7-4930k paired with an RTX 3070 - it still works, I mainly play 4k high with DLSS or so, but CPU intensive games slowly start to suck :D X4 went from 60fps to single digits once my empire grew. In general it is great to use stuff to it fullest potential and not discard old tech every second year. Now I am upgrading to an Ryzen 9 7950X3D for this decade or so :D
@D3RMA5T3R Yeah I agree when it comes to using stuff to the fullest! Yeah the Ryzen 9 7950X3D will be a beast. Gotta get me one of them to test and benchmark!
i5-4690K ROCKED back in the day. I still have that in one of my kids PC.'s, rocking the 4070tiSuper OC from MSI.. and added a couple of SATA SSD's.. (Sabertooth z97 Mark 1/USB 3.1 has NO nvme / M.2 slots.. BOOOO). But that machine really does well. Quick boot from the SATA SSD's.. can run any games my daughter plays in 1080 P on HIGH settings.. and even does fine running 4k @ 60 fps on low settings. I know.. the CPU is a bottleneck for that card.. so I'm just waiting for it to die so I can put that GPU to full use!
I'm still using the 4690k with a GTX 1650s and 16 gs ram. My z87 motherboard automatically optimizes it to 4.1 ghz. It works well with most games I play: DCS world single player, RS2, Insurgency Sandstorm, Rainbowsixseige, titanfall 2 I can get to run at at least 60 FPS, but newer titles I've tried: Squad, DCS world multiplayer, Hell let Loose, I can't get a steady 40 fps. I'm going to try to overclock it but my Noctua-u14S fan RPM only goes to 700 now (should be 1200) so I'll have to replace that I think.
mine is OC'ed to 4.4 and I didn't even bother to stresstest it while OC'ing because they would indeed go to 4.7-4.8 on average. I can fully believe the 4.9, but I preferred a stable clock instead because I had a lot of issues with stability while trying to OC my 980ti and I think it broke it early in the end.
Yes you can game on it, if you don't mind the odd jerky moment. That 3060ti is also completely underutilised, less than 40% a lot of the time with 99% CPU, seriously - the cpu is holding it back. I'm not that great on Intel processors, but I would guess the motherboard socket type could enable a CPU upgrade with cheap used chip on ebay or similar.
Definitely a big bottleneck. I just like testing old tech. If you already have the cpu you can still get some use out of it if you have or are thinking of retiring it. Well at least some people can. Yeah best you can do is the i7-4790K on that board.
4690k with a 3080ti for me, and 32g ram. Upgrading means upgrading the motherboard, cpu etc and I just haven't really had a need for it. I have the card for ai stuff which doesn't need a beefy cpu
On a budget, a Ryzen 5 5600x is a still a good choice. On intel’s side a i5-13400f or even an i5-13600K if you’ve got a bigger budget. That’s what I would recommend for gaming.
lol u can play with it, still the people r mading the dell optiplex gaming buiilds!! with the six gen intel core 5 and 7 , and is powerfull asfuck... with the s1150 u can get a i7 4790 and u r done!!! 4 cores and 8 treads!!!
Honestly? Running any of this at 1080P diminishes the point of the video. If you really want to comment/test this CPU then you need to be running games where they will bottleneck on the GPU rather than the CPU. You should educate your audience who isn't astute. Running games at 1080p will bottleneck a CPU. Higher resolution gaming will reduce CPU dependency. If you want to make a CPU like this last? Then go higher resolution monitor. Then you are going to say well if you go higher resolution monitor then why don't you just upgrade the entire PC. Um, point here is to get the most out of that PC. Also, doesn't using the m.2 reduce the lanes for the GPU. Is the GPU running at a full 16x?
My first ever pc back in 2016 was a 4690k and gtx 970
Still running this combo
@@Niftynexusslike
exact same, legendary setup
Same here, I upgraded to a 1060 6gb like three years later
Built mine in 2014 with those same specs and it’s still holding up somehow lol
I've noticed something strange in the last years.
And I was involved into PC hardware heavily all these years.
Since Ryzen came in 2017, Intel and games' devs were pushing so hard for multicore enhancements, I'm pretty sure they disregarded focus on 1 or 2 cores, or maybe some kind of optimizations for IPC/single core/thread performance.
Everyone and their dog was amazed about having 6 or 8 or 16 whatever cores. To share workloads between multiple cores.
Now, maybe since last year or two, I got few DDR3 rigs thru my hands, and as long as thermal paste is changed, motherboard cleaned up with proper stuff, fans cleaned up, PSU cleaned up, applied little OC, new SSD installed - 4 cores is playing dam well!
On top of that, select FSR 2.1 where applicable and dang! 1080p gaming for 150-200 euros!
It's like industry has realized there's millions of potential gamers in low/mid income economies, where i5 or Ryzen 3 is the best kids can have, hence feels like the industry re-started optimizations for single/double cores performance. 🤷♂️
My gigabyte z87m died recently forcing me to upgrade, I went with Ryzen 5 5600 and I'd say the difference is night and day! I'm no longer getting any stutter or framedrops, especially when using android emulator. My specs as of today is Ryzen 5 5600, 16GB DDR4 HYperx beast 3600mhz paired with old GTX 1060 6GB.
I just built a new PC to replace my Z97/4690K build from 10 years ago...it still handles itself really well and going strong.
Did you ever overclock your 4690K?
Rocking a 4690k and a gtx 1060 6gb btw the CPU is a Little overclocked and got 1000fps in minecraft
This is very relevant to me since I'm still using a i5-4690 thou not a "4690K" Version. This is a good content ☺ Please upload more videos like this.
I appreciate the comment! That’s cool that cpu is still working for you. Yeah I’ll see what other older CPUs or GPUs I can get my hands on! 👍🏼
is it still good for dota 2?
@@TEAMROV10 yes just pair it with a Good GPU & you are fine
@@steamkareem4760 the gpu is gtx 680 will it work fine? Thank you for your response.
@@TEAMROV10 Yes it would run but I recommend lowering the Graphics for a smooth gameplay. You probably want to upgrade your GPU soon like a gtx 1650 or rx580 which are cheaper nowadays.
I'm still running mine, it's been overclocked to 5ghz for almost 10 years now! It's still water cooled in my living room setup, running almost every single day. I do all my emulation (including switch) on it and all games before 2020 work wonders. Gotta love this tank ❤
Heeelll yes, this is great, in this days im upgrading my dell pc, is a optiplex 3020 sff, i have a rx 550 2gb, an internal hdd(i'm gonna change it by a ssd 480gb, a ssd of 2tb that has the videogames, and i did it a custom tower fan.
I love the computers, the electronic and make things for it.😅
Still using my 4690 alongside a gtx1060 6gb, originally a gtx970. 16gb ddr3 ram.
Currently using a pcie adapter to use a m.2 nvme. Hopefully upgrading my pc soon.
i5 4690k@4.6Ghz/ 1.180v, 212Evo. 16Gb DDR3 2000CL10, PowerColor Fighter RX 6700 10Gb.
Cine R23: Multi 4400, Single 1145 pts.
Alan Wake 2: CPU Util. 50% to 80%, GPU Util. 100%. FPS is 45-60, 1080p High, no FSR.
This game doesn't care what cpu you have. 😆
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p High, 1660 Ti = 88FPS, RX 6700 10Gb. = 111 FPS.
I have one. Got it in 2020 with a hyper evo 212 air cooler and a Z97G45 Gaming motherboard and 16gb ddr3 ram for 125 bucks. I have had it stable at 4.5ghz since I got it. I have had it paired with an RX 580, a 5600XT and a Vega 56 and to this day I still can game at medium to high settings in the games I play like Warzone, World of Warcraft, Assassin's Creed Origins and Odyssey. I get right at 60fps or higher in them all. I do have a few hitches here and there rarely, but it is an old processor. I have also paired it with an RTX 2070 and it seems to run its best paired with that card. I did upgrade the ram to 32GB of Teamgroup DDR3 ram and I have it at a stable OC of 2666mhz. I alos put a Thermaltake Water 3.0 360AIO on it and have pushed it up to a stable 4.8ghz at 1.47V and kept the temp under 85C in Cinebench although I did hit 97c in AIDA 64 after a few minutes of running it. Id probably have to delid it and use better thermal paste to make it more viable, but I put it back down to 4.5 and 1.219v and that is where it has stayed at for the last 4 years of owning it. Always use it as a backup computer. I also experimented with Crossfire with it, first had dual Sapphire Pulse RX 580's then I had 2 MSI Airboost Vega 56's running with the Vega 64 Bios. Compared it with the 2080TI I had and minus Ray Tracing of course The Crossfire Vegas went toe to toe with the 2080TI, in the games that were still crossfire compatible that is. Not bad for having about 300 bucks in both Vegas back then. I am pretty confident that with delidding and proper cooling I could push this chip to the 5ghz mark and beyond if I wanted to, but it's just an every day and I enjoy having it. 4th Gen was probably the best Gen they had as far as versatility and longevity. For Gaming, the 4790K was still viable and usable until 10thgen came out. Both the 4790K and the 4690K Devil's Canyon refresh are still able to be used to this day for most 1080P gaming, minus some Triple A titles that use Core Count.
I am running my i7-4930k paired with an RTX 3070 - it still works, I mainly play 4k high with DLSS or so, but CPU intensive games slowly start to suck :D X4 went from 60fps to single digits once my empire grew.
In general it is great to use stuff to it fullest potential and not discard old tech every second year. Now I am upgrading to an Ryzen 9 7950X3D for this decade or so :D
@D3RMA5T3R Yeah I agree when it comes to using stuff to the fullest! Yeah the Ryzen 9 7950X3D will be a beast. Gotta get me one of them to test and benchmark!
i5-4690K ROCKED back in the day. I still have that in one of my kids PC.'s, rocking the 4070tiSuper OC from MSI.. and added a couple of SATA SSD's.. (Sabertooth z97 Mark 1/USB 3.1 has NO nvme / M.2 slots.. BOOOO). But that machine really does well. Quick boot from the SATA SSD's.. can run any games my daughter plays in 1080 P on HIGH settings.. and even does fine running 4k @ 60 fps on low settings. I know.. the CPU is a bottleneck for that card.. so I'm just waiting for it to die so I can put that GPU to full use!
mine is doing 4.7Ghz @ 1.25V on a €18 air cooler (delidded + liquid metal).
I'm still using the 4690k with a GTX 1650s and 16 gs ram. My z87 motherboard automatically optimizes it to 4.1 ghz. It works well with most games I play: DCS world single player, RS2, Insurgency Sandstorm, Rainbowsixseige, titanfall 2 I can get to run at at least 60 FPS, but newer titles I've tried: Squad, DCS world multiplayer, Hell let Loose, I can't get a steady 40 fps. I'm going to try to overclock it but my Noctua-u14S fan RPM only goes to 700 now (should be 1200) so I'll have to replace that I think.
of course you can game with it , i got one , my pc is 9 years old and i can play all the games . My graphic card is GTX 1060 6GB
Had mine overclocked to 4.6 for about 2 years. Had to clock it back to factory last month after some issues. Will try to oc it again soon
How did you clocked it?
very helpful. Thank you
Glad to hear that!
The 4690k is basically a Ryzen 5 1600x equivalent in gaming performance so yeah it can still rock 👍
mine is OC'ed to 4.4 and I didn't even bother to stresstest it while OC'ing because they would indeed go to 4.7-4.8 on average. I can fully believe the 4.9, but I preferred a stable clock instead because I had a lot of issues with stability while trying to OC my 980ti and I think it broke it early in the end.
Mine used to run 4.6ghz daily, by the end was running 4.7ghz. At 4.8 some issues for daily and foor 4.9 not cool.
I have the non k version i5 4690.
Him casually describing my build with the case cpu and gpu😅
Yes you can game on it, if you don't mind the odd jerky moment. That 3060ti is also completely underutilised, less than 40% a lot of the time with 99% CPU, seriously - the cpu is holding it back. I'm not that great on Intel processors, but I would guess the motherboard socket type could enable a CPU upgrade with cheap used chip on ebay or similar.
Definitely a big bottleneck. I just like testing old tech. If you already have the cpu you can still get some use out of it if you have or are thinking of retiring it. Well at least some people can. Yeah best you can do is the i7-4790K on that board.
4690k with a 3080ti for me, and 32g ram. Upgrading means upgrading the motherboard, cpu etc and I just haven't really had a need for it. I have the card for ai stuff which doesn't need a beefy cpu
can you make a video Titled "which is better option mac mini or pc?"
had mine oc at 5.1 for like 7 years with a 212evo lol
4930K with a Vaga 56 ..... PLUS i use DDR3 ram. Du know how much 392gb cost right now? Two Dollars Bro ... $2 ...
but how to overclock ??
I have this cpu. With a 3070. I want to buy new cpu, which works with rtx 3070 the best?
On a budget, a Ryzen 5 5600x is a still a good choice. On intel’s side a i5-13400f or even an i5-13600K if you’ve got a bigger budget. That’s what I would recommend for gaming.
lol u can play with it, still the people r mading the dell optiplex gaming buiilds!! with the six gen intel core 5 and 7 , and is powerfull asfuck... with the s1150 u can get a i7 4790 and u r done!!! 4 cores and 8 treads!!!
What is the name of the music at 1:50?
O Boy -Jeremy Black
Thing is to test old CPU like 4690k with high end GPU in 4K to minimize CPU bottleneck.
Exactly.
I have two I5-4670K's stored in a box. I tried to sell them for $15 a pop and I still have them lol.
Man, yo have It in this moment?
i have my 4690k and i sell
hey buddy thank you for information , but don't wast food like that its not cool there homeless people need that
I5 4690k 4.2 and gtx 1080, cpu bottleneck on AAA games
How did you clocked to 4.2
DDR3 Ram 1600Mhz
🤣🤣🤣
Honestly? Running any of this at 1080P diminishes the point of the video. If you really want to comment/test this CPU then you need to be running games where they will bottleneck on the GPU rather than the CPU. You should educate your audience who isn't astute. Running games at 1080p will bottleneck a CPU. Higher resolution gaming will reduce CPU dependency. If you want to make a CPU like this last? Then go higher resolution monitor. Then you are going to say well if you go higher resolution monitor then why don't you just upgrade the entire PC. Um, point here is to get the most out of that PC. Also, doesn't using the m.2 reduce the lanes for the GPU. Is the GPU running at a full 16x?