4570 can be had for under $180.- shipped. 3.2 base 3.6 turbo Haswell. If someone snuck into my sig rig and swapped I probably wouldn't notice.
Simple answer. You won't notice a difference with the kind of work you do. Buying an unlocked processor when you have no intention of overclocking is simply a waste of money.
The only single difference that you would notice between the two on stock settings would be during video conversions by some seconds or 1-2mins at max, that's all.
For those not overclocking, the i5-4690K is a waste of money versus its non-K brethren. However this does not hold true for the i7-4790K, which has the highest stock clocks (4.0GHz base, 4.40GHz max turbo) by far of any Socket 1150 CPU.
I didn't take the OP as an upgrade question, but as deciding which to buy?
Simple answer. You won't notice a difference with the kind of work you do. Buying an unlocked processor when you have no intention of overclocking is simply a waste of money.
The only single difference that you would notice between the two on stock settings would be during video conversions by some seconds or 1-2mins at max, that's all.
4590 or 4690, use MCE (Asrock boards usually have this option) to max turbo speed in 5 seconds and forget about overclocking. You won't notice the difference for you usage OP. Even in single player gaming, a few minimum FPS pffft.
MCE is considered overclocking, that is running the CPU outside of factory specifications. On a i5-4690 factory specs call for 3.7 GHz for all cores being loaded. If you disabled CPU c-states, C1E, and Windows processor power management minimum at 100%, and kept turbo boost enabled, the 4690 would be running at 3.7 GHz provided that it was not hitting the TJ Max temperature.
Barely overclocking, and with this you don't need to fiddle at all. Maximum power on tap when required, idle at 800MHz. Win win.
I tried running my 4930k at single core turbo, 3.9 GHz, on all cores but it seems that I had to turn off CPU power saving settings in the BIOS to fix a BSOD at low load, such as BSOD when loading CPU-Z, as during stress testing it was stable. I also read that CPU power saving features, like C-States, can cause overclocks to be unstable at near idle loads because the idle voltage of the vcore does not switch quick enough to the full load voltage. I think I can forget about using CPU power saving features if I run "Sync all Cores" at 3.9 GHz or higher if I want a more stable system while overclocking. So in my case I need to fiddle a bit when running at that setting.
Simple answer. You won't notice a difference with the kind of work you do. Buying an unlocked processor when you have no intention of overclocking is simply a waste of money.
The only single difference that you would notice between the two on stock settings would be during video conversions by some seconds or 1-2mins at max, that's all.
I am getting 4590 at slightly lesser price than 4570. And 4590 is only 15$ more than 4460.
So should I go with 4590?