i5 is still okay for STRICTLY gaming right?

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If I bought an i5 (3570k or 4670k), I would still be fine for GAMING for the next couple of years?

When would I ever need to get an i7 for gaming?
 
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An i5 is going to be more than enough for BF4.

The 2500K is shown here as getting solid FPS at stock clocks. A Haswell i5 (4670K) is going to perform roughly 15% better than that. That's not even taking overclocking into consideration.
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Wait how do you know that BF4 does use HT?
 
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I agree with jaguarskx. An i5 should be totally fine for you. And like jaguar said, it's the only game really that will benefit from hyper threading. But if money isn't an issue.. You can always go for the i7-3770k and OC that thing.
 
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The following BF4 Beta multiplayer article references a russian site that did the benchmarking. Note that HT is only used in multiplayer, not single player campaign.

http://gearnuke.com/battlefield-4-pc-beta-benchmarks-hint-at-brighter-prospects-amd-cpus-5682/

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So would an i5 bottleneck in BF4?
 
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An i5 is going to be more than enough for BF4.

The 2500K is shown here as getting solid FPS at stock clocks. A Haswell i5 (4670K) is going to perform roughly 15% better than that. That's not even taking overclocking into consideration.
 
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I currently have a GTX 780 and and I'm gonna get a 3570k soon and overclocking, you think I will be fine?
 
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Yeah, overclock it to around 4.4 if possible and you should be good for a very long time. The i7 just isn't worth the extra money for strictly gaming.
 
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Niceeeeeeee. Yeah I would like to have an i7 but its not in my budget... and I was thinking on this mobo... I think this pretty good. lol.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813128544
 
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