AlexSmith96 :
In terms of overall gaming performance, the Intel Core i7-3770K 4-Core 3.5GHz is massively better than the Intel Core i5-4670K 3.4GHz when it comes to running the latest games.The Core i5-4670K 3.4GHz and the Core i7-3770K 4-Core have the same L2 cache size, but the Core i7-3770K 4-Core has a 2 MB bigger L3 cache, so in this area, it wins out over the Core i5-4670K 3.4GHz. The Core i7-3770K 4-Core has a 7 Watt lower Maximum TDP than the Core i5-4670K 3.4GHz (though they were created with the same size 22 nm manufacturing technology).
If I were you, I'd go for 3770k.
Try getting Haswell 4770k as no more lga 1155 cpu will come in future.
I'm sorry, but this thread has been full of so much bs I can't believe it!
You either don't know what you're talking about or... you bought an i7 and didn't know what you were doing, and are now resentful that you wasted the money and are trying to get other people to buy an i7 'because it's better' in an attempt to validate your own purchase.
The i7-3770K is not even close to "massively better" than the i5-4670K - it will actually perform worse in many games.
You go on and on about the L3 cashe - well, yes, the i7 has 8MB of L3 cashe compared to an i5's 6MB, but that's a tiny difference in something that has very little impact on gaming.
The maximum TDP really doesn't matter, because a difference of 8W is going to make very little impact on your cooling solution for overclocking.
As for no more LGA 1155 CPUs coming in the future, there are a few issues. 1) There is a good chance that Maxwell (the successor to Broadwell) will support DDR4 memory, and so will require a new motherboard anyways. 2) Nobody who doesn't have money instead of brains would even think of upgrading WITHIN an intel socket. The sockets only last for two generations of chip - you wouldn't upgrade from a Sandy Bridge i7 to an Ivy Bridge i7 and gain only 5-10% performance for more than a hundred bucks after you sell the old chip, and the same thing applies here.
Finally, hyperthreading. You obviously have no clue what it does. It has ZERO impact on any game that's coded properly. Hyperthreading ONLY applies to double-precision calculations that have to be accurate out to a hundred decimal places. Games should not be doing many of these calculations, which is why only about 3 games see a decided improvement from hyperthreading. That means an i7 is NOT an 8-core CPU, it's a 4 core with hyperthreading to give it more beef when doing number crunching or rendering.
For gaming, there will be almost ZERO noticeable benefit from an i7 over an i5, and both will easily last at least 2-3 years and still be viable. There's no reason to spend $100 more for basically no benefit.
OP, I'm going to deselect the best answer - simply because I believe you have been given misinformation. If you disagree, go ahead and reselect it.
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