Can't even achieve stable 60 fps anymore. What a hunk of junk. /s
Since this isn't really Linux-specific....EDIT: [I use] Debian btw?
Look, I'm not about to suggest the 4790K is the best CPU for the money today, but if you bought one way back in '14 and upgraded around it over time, you're still doing alright. This is still at stock clock. Been meaning to OC it. I previously ran an R9 290 until my wife surprised me with the 4070 for my birthday a couple years ago.
Great CPU then. Still pretty good today. Maybe I'll still give it a few years before I upgrade.
4790k was among the fastest per-core performance for many, many generations, even long after CPUs with 4x as many cores that could do 2x as much work total, 4790k could still beat them on single-core performance.
Even today it's still a great CPU and I'm still running one of my gaming machines with it. I use it for my Windows machine, since it doesn't support TPM it will never get upgraded to Windows 11 accidentally and I consider that a feature lol.
It's definitely getting long in the tooth these days, and its memory bandwidth is starting to really let it down, but as a CPU doing CPU things, it was a really nice piece of hardware, and still is.
Tbh, this is testament for Intel's CPU stagnation more than anything else. Hence, why they are getting cooked financially today.
Idk if I would call it a great CPU today when you can achieve roughly double the performance with a budget tier ryzen 5 7600. Not to mention that a 7600 will get to use ddr5 rather than ddr3 memory.