i5-4670 and i5-4430 -- Is there a big difference while gaming?

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you won't notice much if any difference. the 4430 is more than capable of keeping pace with any single graphics card. Meaning you'll be GPU limited before being CPU limited. There are very few games where you'd notice any difference between the two aside a slight number difference on a counter that won't be noticeable to your eyes.

The 4670 is faster but the 4430 is fast enough
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you won't notice much if any difference. the 4430 is more than capable of keeping pace with any single graphics card. Meaning you'll be GPU limited before being CPU limited. There are very few games where you'd notice any difference between the two aside a slight number difference on a counter that won't be noticeable to your eyes.

The 4670 is faster but the 4430 is fast enough
 
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Thanks. Now, could you please also tell me if there's any huge difference between i5-3570K, i5-3570 (I guess not, since the K just means 'overclockable') and the i5-4430? In gaming. And which one should I get? The i5-3570K is only €20 more expensive than an i5-4430. But i5-4430 is Haswell, while i5-3570K isn't. And Haswell is new. And the newer is better. Not always.
 
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Right now the 4570 is the best price/performance of all of the non-K model i5s right now.
I would not start a new build with any 3rd gen i5 unless you find a really good sale like the 3350p for $150 or the 3570k for under $200.
I just looked and none of the 3rd gen i5s are priced competitively at this time. The 3570k is $2 cheaper than the 4670k making it a horrible deal. The 4430 and 4440 are also not very good deals as long as the 4570 can be had for $195.
 
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I'd say get the 3570k (and a z77 board) this way you can overclock in the future if you need more performance but honestly, very few games have noticeable differences in FPS when it comes to CPU clock speeds except when the cpu is bottlenecking the graphics card. The 3570k has the advantage of overclocking which will help it keep up years from now when it won't be able to drive the latest gpus.

As far as newer = better, yes but the gains from haswell are about 10% in most cases (often lower in gaming). However the 3570 is clocked over 10% faster so they should be about even in a lot of cases.
 
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